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Cheyenne Garcia, BA
Cheyenne Garcia is a senior research data analyst at BHHI. She helps produce academic papers using HOPE HOME and CASPEH data. She is primarily interested in intergenerational trauma, homelessness among families, and how early life experiences influence homelessness. Prior to joining BHHI, Cheyenne was a Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands studying parenting at Leiden University. Cheyenne graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with Honors. She graduated from American River College with four associate degrees.
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John Weeks
John Weeks has been with UCSF for 11 years. His most recent research project involved the study of homelessness among people age 50 and older in Oakland, CA. Prior to that, John had worked as a Project Coordinator for the Bruthas Project, which was a CAPS intervention study focusing on HIV prevention among MSM populations in San Francisco and Oakland. John joined Dr. Kushel's HOPE HOME Study in August 2015 as a Clinical Research Coordinator.
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Sila Adhiningrat, MPH
Sila completed a Master's in Public Health from Columbia University, where she specialized in sociomedical sciences with a certificate in health promotion research and practice. She has a Bachelor of Arts in public health policy and management from UC Irvine.
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Stephen King, BA
Steve has been with UCSF for 19 years. Most recently, he worked with the Lupus Outcome Study for ten years. Prior to that, Stephen had worked as a Project Coordinator for Urban Health Study for nine years, an organization devoted to the principles of harm reduction in preventing the spread of the HIV virus in drug using and homeless populations.
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Sye-Ok Sato, MA
Sye-Ok Sato is a Project Manager for the HOPE HOME Study, coordinating the longitudinal cohort study that examines the relationship between discrimination, stigma, medical mistrust, health utilization and health outcomes among homeless older adults in Oakland, California. She has made it a priority in her research endeavors to give a voice to communities that are overlooked, including people experiencing homelessness and drug users. She comes to the Center of Vulnerable Populations/Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative with experience and passion to implement creative research processes that provide meaningful and actionable findings. Sye-Ok hails from the Pacific Northwest and is currently residing
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Yea-Hung Chen, PhD, MS
Yea-Hung Chen, PhD is a statistician at BHHI. His research has focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and its effects on mortality. Yea-Hung graduated from the University of California, San Francisco with a PhD in Epidemiology and Translational Science. He also has an MS in Biostatistics from the University of Washington, and a BA in Psychology and Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley.