Dave serves as a Senior Statistician to lead the quantitative team at the BHHI. Dave has worked in the field of policy analysis for the last 14 years, primarily focusing on issues of labor standards, such as raising regional minimum wages, and expanding health care affordability and access in California. Most recently, he worked as a statistician for the UC Berkeley Labor Center where he provided the quantitative results for dozens of studies to inform legislative debates. In his first week at the Labor Center, he provided the analysis which led to requirements for San Francisco businesses to provide basic

Erin Hartman, MS, is BHHI's Director of Communications. Prior to joining the staff of UCSF BHHI, Ms. Hartman worked in the UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine as Project Director and Editorial Director for AHRQ Patient Safety Network/WebM&M, a pioneering online patient safety journal and weekly news service advocating worldwide patient safety improvement. Before that, she was Managing Editor of the groundbreaking Clinical Crossroads series in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). She has substantively edited more than 1000 articles published in the medical literature. She received a BA in Linguistics from the University of Michigan with High Honors

Gato Ian Gourley is the Center for Vulnerable Populations (CVP) Division Manager. He has worked with CVP for over 7 years. He is very excited to be supporting the newly created Division of the Center for Vulnerable Populations at ZSFG in order to further the CVP’s mission and continue its growth with the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. He is extremely passionate about the CVP’s mission and is deeply committed to pursuing social justice and health equity. He has an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Sociology from the

Kenny is the Co-Director of Research Operations at BHHI. He began working at UCSF in 2013 as an intern while attending UC Berkeley for his bachelor's degree in Psychology and Peace and Conflict Studies. He has since served as an Assistant CRC, CRC, Project Manager, and Senior Project Manager. Kenny holds an MPH from UC Berkeley. His primary professional and academic interests focus on using research methods to work with and for homeless and underserved populations within the San Francisco Bay Area.

Marc Dones (they/them) is the policy director at BHHI. They are an American social justice advocate and policy strategist and have worked extensively in the fields of violence prevention, homelessness, affordable housing, and racial equity. Most recently, Marc served as the inaugural CEO of the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, where they oversaw a $250M budget, implemented one of the best emergency housing voucher programs in the country, and advanced national models on encampment response. Marc has held leadership positions in several organizations, including the Center for Social Innovation and the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, and

Margot Kushel, MD, is Professor of Medicine at UCSF, Division Chief of the Center for Vulnerable Populations, and Director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG). Her research focuses on reducing the burden of homelessness on health through examining efforts to prevent and end homelessness and mitigating its effects on health care outcomes. Margot is a primary care physician at ZSFG’s Richard H. Fine People's Clinic. A leading homelessness researcher, her research has been funded by the NIH, government, and foundations. Margot is quoted frequently in the press. She provides

Michael Duke is a medical anthropologist whose ethnographic and mixed method work focuses primarily on theimpact of contemporary and historical trauma on the physical and mental health of Latinx and Pacific Islander immigrant communities, particularly regarding drug and alcohol use, anxiety and depression, stress, and housing precarity.After receiving his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, he was a researcher at the Hispanic Health Council in Hartford, CT, where he directed several studies on HIV risk among heroin injectors, and was the PI for a series of NIH-funded binational studies focusing on drinking, masculinity, and HIV risk among US-based

In her role at BHHI, Usma Khan oversees strategic planning, new program development, communications, and the overall operational structure of BHHI. She works to create a strong and inclusive organizational culture that supports BHHI faculty and staff in implementing their impactful work. Usma is inspired by BHHI’s mission and the intentional emphasis on addressing structural racism and equity. Having grown up in the Bay Area, she has witnessed the dramatic rise in homelessness, as the economic divide has widened and housing costs have skyrocketed, and she is dedicated to developing solutions to this critical public health and human rights issue