Overview

The Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (BHHI) provides accurate, timely policy-oriented research about homelessness for local, state, and national policymakers and practitioners. BHHI is seeking highly motivated students to join our multidisciplinary team for this 8-week summer program.

The Summer Explore Fellowships are designed for medical students for the UCSF School of Medicine, who are typically between their first and second year of professional school. The primary goals are to provide a mentored-research experience and to provide students an introduction to conducting strategic science research with communities affected by homelessness.

*Update November 15, 2024: BHHI will not be recruiting a new cohort for the upcoming 2025 Summer Explore application cycle. We sincerely appreciate your interest in our program. While we are not accepting applications at this time, we encourage you to stay connected for updates, new reports, policy briefs and webinars, here on our website.   

Contact

For more information, contact Dr. Michael Duke ( Zvpunry.Qhxr@hpfs.rqhude.fscu@ekuD.leahciM ) and Alma Yates ( Nyzn.Lngrf@hpfs.rqhude.fscu@setaY.amlA )

 

Summer Explore Program 2024 Participants

"Ananya Headshot"

Ananya Somasekar, MS
Summer Explore Student

UCSF School of Medicine

"Bradley Oh"

Bradley Oh, BA, BS
Summer Explore Student

UCSF School of Medicine

Summer Explore Program 2023 Participants

Vivian Bui, BA
Summer Explore Student

MPH Candidate in Epidemiology/Biostatistics
UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Dafna Erena Hernandez
Summer Explore Student

UCSF School of Medicine

Jessica Fields, BA
Summer Explore Student

UC Berkeley—UCSF Joint Medical Program
 

Elena Straus, BA
Summer Explore Student

Yale School of Medicine

Summer Explore Program 2022 Participants

Kweku Djan 
Summer Explore Student

UCSF School of Medicine
PRIME-US (Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved)

Jessica Fields, BS
Summer Explore Student

UC Berkeley—UCSF Joint Medical Program

Mukund Raguram
Summer Explore Student

UCSF School of Medicine
PRIME-US (Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved)

Lucy Zhang
Summer Explore Student

UCSF School of Medicine
 

Orlando Parrales, LCSW
Visiting Summer Scholar

UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare, PhD Student

Kaylia Carroll (she/her) 
Summer Explore Intern

Yale MPH candidate in Social and Behavioral Sciences