Project Title: Sources for Success: Closing the Healthcare Access Gap
BASIS Advisor: Dr. Vervoort
Internship Location: Stanford University
Onsite Mentor: Dr. Julieta Gabiola
An issue that homeless individuals face is the lack of access to healthcare. In an attempt to successfully address this issue, we need to figure out the reasons for this divide and identify what individuals experiencing homelessness have to say about their situation. I will spend a lot of time researching and collecting data from online web sources, library texts, and City Census Data, with guidance from my advisor at Stanford University. In order to target the lack of healthcare availability, I will interview people who experience homelessness and ask them how they feel about their healthcare situation. I will work with private companies and organizations to start a mobile health clinic in the Bay Area. When I gather my results, I expect to find that homeless individuals are not lazy, contrary to common misunderstanding, and that they have not been well-supported by the local governments. I will investigate if governmental programs such as shelters and the Affordable Care Act are not enough. We need to re-establish a long-lost trust, and I think it is crucial to shed light on an important social issue. My project can be used in the long run as a measure of where society was in 2019. I think the biggest issue is being able to put faith in an identity. The homeless won’t trust a doctor who comes after them with a needle. They need a friendship with someone whom they know will act in their best interests.
My Posts
Week 12: Final Paper
May 13, 2019
Hi guys, This week, I polished my final presentation and worked on my final paper. Last week, I didn’t even know what I wanted to include in my final paper but this week I kinda got all my thoughts together and wrote stuff down. So I’m just finalizing my paper and then I’m done with […]
Week 11: Just Presentation stuff
May 05, 2019
Hi guys, So this week was pretty standard because I was just finalizing my final presentation. It’s super long right now because there are like 22 slides and I talk too much so I need to cut a lot of it down. Oh and also, my final project is supposed to be a paper and […]
Week 10: Final Presentation and making a table
Apr 28, 2019
Hey guys, This week, I did some work on my presentation that I talked about in one of the last two blog updates that I posted. I added some slides on the cost breakdowns in a table. So the first column was the item, for example supplies, salaries, bus, maintenance. The second column was cost […]
Week 9: Microsoft and a Helping Hand
Apr 18, 2019
Hey there, What’s up? So, this week, after I discovered the Microsoft Grant Program, I got super excited and immediately started talking about applying to it. In case I didn’t write about the program before, I have to register my organization with Microsoft and then they determine our eligibility for the grant and only then […]
Week 8- The first grant program, an excerpt, and a little more
Apr 18, 2019
Hi guys! How’s it going? Here’s what’s happening with my project. The first fund program that I had applied to was from Cisco. This is the $10,000 matching program in which if employees can raise $10,000 for a particular fund, Cisco will match $10,000 and we’d get a total amount of $20,000. Granted, as of […]
Week 7
Apr 08, 2019
Hi guys! So this week, I finally did something. Well, so far, it’s been a lot of background kinds of stuff; ya know, like finding out where I’m going to operate, mapping out clinics, and funding sources etc. Well, this week, I actually applied to a funding program. There is this matching program at a […]
Week 6: Making Flyers
Mar 31, 2019
Every year, my outside advisor organizes a mission trip to the Philippines. There is a bus and then there are doctors and organizers and they go to these different places in the Philippines and provide medical care for individuals in those areas. This week, my project took a bit of a detour in that I […]
Week 5: Finding Funding Programs
Mar 23, 2019
This week, I made a spreadsheet. Yep. Usually, spreadsheets are pretty uninteresting to me, and I don’t consider spreadsheets to be an optimal use of anyone’s time. I’d rather write on paper or even on a wall or something than use them because they look kind of freaky. But, this week, I had no choice […]
Week 4: Discussion and focus group preliminary work
Mar 17, 2019
This week just entailed a short discussion and gaining an understanding of focus groups. One of my outside advisor’s scribes and I sat down to discuss the gaps in healthcare, the gaps in services offered, and gaps in groups served(my outside advisor was in LA). We discussed why we were doing this project in the […]
Week 3: Maine to Mexico: Every clinic in the country
Mar 07, 2019
Hi everyone! This week was literally just online research. Over 25 hours of it. I mapped almost every single mobile clinic in the country. Well, first, I just did all of the ones in a 2.5 hour radius of my research site. That included different places like San Francisco, San Mateo, Central Valley, Sonoma, and […]
Week 2: Clinic Progress and Even More Reading
Feb 26, 2019
So, this week, I was supposed to look at Census data to figure out where the mobile clinic will be operating each week, but since I’m not just going to be looking at San Jose data, I gathered the data from all of the other cities and places to read this new week. In my […]
Week 1- Reading and Foundations for the Clinic
Feb 17, 2019
Hi! I don’t think anyone really knows what my project even is yet, so I’m going to tell y’all about it. My project entails looking at different sources to gather data on how homeless, low-income families, and migrant workers get (or, unfortunately, do not get) access to healthcare. My end goal is to have written […]