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Vaccine Preparation for California’s Homelessness Response System
March 18, 2021
The State of California Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council, the California Health Care Foundation, and the Benioff Housing and Homelessness Initiative at UCSF have joined together to create a...
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Hostile Architecture Is Everywhere, If You Know Where to Look
Boston Magazine
March 17, 2021
Caitlin Carey, PhD, a post-doctoral scholar at the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, spoke about how hostile architecture, which refers to design features created specifically to deter...
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Sen. Skinner Announces 2021 Woman of the Year for District 9: Dr. Margot Kushel
State of California
March 15, 2021
In recognition of her work on homelessness, Margot Kushel, MD, director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative was named Woman of the Year for California’s Senate District 9.
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The Uncounted: People Who Are Homeless Are Invisible Victims of COVID-19
STAT
March 11, 2021
Margot Kushel, MD, director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, was quoted in this article describing how, despite detailed statistics on the demographics and comorbidities of the...
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Experts Describe the Day They Realized COVID-19 Was Here to Stay
STAT
March 10, 2021
On the anniversary of the pandemic, Margot Kushel, MD, director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, and other public health and infectious disease experts recall when they realize...
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How Moving the Homeless to Hotels During the Pandemic Helps Everyone
HealthDay
March 5, 2021
Hemal Kanzaria, MD, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and faculty advisor at UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, discussed findings of a new UCSF study describing how the hotel i...
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How the Pandemic Is Opening the Door to Housing Access
Yes! Magazine
March 3, 2021
Maria Raven, MD, Chief of Emergency Medicine at UCSF and a faculty advisor at BHHI, was quoted in this piece describing how hotels leased during the pandemic to prevent the spread of coronavirus provi...
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Hotels for Homeless Freed Up Hospitals for COVID-19 Patients
Los Angeles Times
March 2, 2021
Researchers from UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative and the San Francisco Department of Public Health found that housing homeless residents with mild to moderate COVID-19 in hotel rooms ...
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New Study Shows ‘Isolation and Quarantine Hotels’ Helped Free Up Hospital Space, Reduce COVID-19 Spread
Mission Local
March 2, 2021
A new study from authors at the San Francisco Department of Public Health the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative showed that San Francisco’s early use of isolation and quarantine hotels ...
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Viral Suppression During COVID-19 Among People with HIV Experiencing Homelessness in a Low-Barrier Clinic-Based Program
AIDS
March 1, 2021
COVID-19 impacted access to medical care and social services, potentially worsening HIV outcomes among people experiencing homelessness. In San Francisco, Ward 86, initiated POP-UP, a low-barrier, mul...
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Hotel-Based COVID-19 Isolation and Quarantine Strategy for Persons Experiencing Homelessness
JAMA Network Open
March 1, 2021
A new study from UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative and the San Francisco Department of Public Health describes how San Francisco rapidly scaled a hotel-based isolation and quarantine (I...
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Hidden Homeless Crisis: After Losing Jobs and Homes, More People Living in Vehicles
USA Today
February 12, 2021
Graham Pruss, PhD, a post-doctoral scholar at the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, spoke about the rapid growth of vehicle residency over the last decade, especially during the pandem...
BHHI Guidance on COVID-19 Vaccination Planning for Homelessness Response Systems
CA Homeless Coordinating & Financing Council, Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, California Health Care Foundation
February 2, 2021
The UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative collaborated with the California Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council and the California Health Care Foundation to create resources to help ...
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Youth Experiencing Homelessness During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Unique Needs and Practical Strategies From International Perspectives
Journal of Adolescent Health
February 1, 2021
During the COVID-19 pandemic youth experiencing homelessness (YEH) were disproportionately impacted; there were common upstream factors, including racism, homophobia, poverty, and structural violence ...
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San Francisco Was Set to Open 1,000 Shelter Beds. Then the Pandemic Hit
San Francisco Chronicle
January 21, 2021
Margot Kushel, MD, director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle saying she hopes the city continues to focus on more permanent solutions ...
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Isolation Helps Homeless Population Escape Worst of Virus
New York Times
December 23, 2020
Margot Kushel, MD, director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, was interviewed for a New York Times article about how rates of COVID-19 among unhoused people remained lower than ...
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One Long, Strange Year in a Roadside Homeless Camp
Narratively
December 23, 2020
Graham Pruss, PhD, a post-doctoral scholar at the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, was interviewed about a Portland, OR, vehicular campsite in a year that saw a self-made community co...
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COVID Vaccine: Will Bay Area Homeless Shelters Be a Top Priority?
San Jose Mercury News
December 18, 2020
Margot Kushel, MD, director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News discussing rollout of COVID vaccines for people experiencing homelessness. ...