Residency

In addition to coursework, our MS students complete a 10-week health policy or public health residency.

This may involve working in settings that include: legislative and regulatory offices, advocacy organizations, foundations involved in setting agendas for funding policy-related research and programs, health care organizations, community organizations, and professional associations.

Residencies emphasize the application of policy skills in real-world settings. 

Past students have completed residencies in Sacramento, Washington, D.C., and Geneva at the World Health Organization in addition to numerous San Francisco-area placements.

Agency Name and Year

  • 360 Positive Care Clinic — 2023
  • Alameda County Public Health Dept.
  • Altarum Institute — 2015
  • American Association of the Colleges of Nursing — 2023
  • American Nurses Association, California — 2022
  • API Wellness Center
  • APPEAL — 2022
  • Berkeley Health & Human Services
  • CA Department of Health Care Services — 2015
  • CA Nurses for Environmental Health and Justice — 2024
  • Cal eConnect — 2010
  • California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform — 2022
  • California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform (CANHR) — 2016
  • California Assembly — 2011
  • California Association for Nurse Practitioners — 2019
  • California Breastfeeding Coalition — 2021
  • California Department of Health Care Services — 2013
  • California Department of Public Health — 2015
  • California Health Benefits Review Program — 2015
  • California Health Benefits Review Program — 2016
  • California Health Benefits Review Program — 2019
  • California Hospital Association — 2016
  • California Hospital Association — 2017
  • California Immigrant Policy Center — 2012
  • California State Rural Health Association — 2011
  • California Youth Advocacy Network — 2016
  • Carbon Roots International Inc. — 2011
  • CARE Services
  • Center for the Health Professions — 2010
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — 2017
  • Centre for Care Research — 2017
  • Children’s Defense Fund — 2011
  • Compassion & Choices of Northern California — 2013
  • Connection 2 Care — 2020
  • Control Yuan, Taiwan (R.O.C) — 2009
  • Department of Health Care Services — 2011
  • Department of health care services — 2013
  • DHCS — 2013
  • DOCS Heal Africa
  • Doctors without Borders
  • Eastmont WIC
  • El Concilio of San Mateo County
  • Family Service Agency of SF
  • Family Service Agency's Teenage Pregnancy and Parenting Program (TAPP)
  • Fetal Infant Mortality Review Board
  • Framework Convention Alliance of the Philippines — 2008
  • Futura Generaciones Peru
  • Glide Memorial Church Clinic
  • Health Impact — 2019, 2020, 2021
  • Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County
  • Healthy Children Organizing Project
  • High Risk Infant Interagency Council
  • HIV/AIDS Treatment Adherence Program
  • Homeless Prenatal Program
  • Homeless Programs. Tom Waddell Health
  • HOPE — 2024
  • Ibis Reproductive Health —2015
  • Institute for Health & Aging, UCSF School of Nursing — 2016
  • Institute for One World Health
  • Kaiser Permanente — 2014
  • Korean Public & Social Services and Transport Worker's Union : Healthcare Workers Solidarity Division — 2017
  • Lake County Department of Public Health — 2017
  • Marin County Board of Supervisors
  • Marin County Health and Human Services — 2022
  • Marin County Health Department — Multi-Year
  • Mental Health Assoc. of SF Center for Dignity, Recovery, & Empowerment — 2014
  • Minority International Research Training
  • NARAL ProChoice California — 2008
  • National Academy of Social Insurance — 2023
  • National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (NASBHC) —2010
  • National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems (Washington, DC) —2008
  • National Coalition on Health Care — 2012
  • National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization — 2008
  • National Partnership for Women and Families —2021
  • National Research Center for Women and Families — 2010
  • Natural Resources Defense Council — 2009
  • Naya Health — 2016
  • Nurses for America
  • Office of Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland — 2013
  • Office of Speaker Nancy Pelosi — 2010
  • Oregon Health Authority, Public Health Division — 2017
  • Our Second Home
  • Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center
  • Pacific Business Group On Health (PBGH) — 2011
  • Pan American Health Organization — 2020
  • Samuels & Associates — 2012
  • San Francisco Department of Public Health — Multi-Year
  • San Mateo County - Street/Field Medicine — 2023
  • San Mateo County Dept of Health Services, Community Health Field Services — Multi-Year
  • Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors — 2010
  • Santa Clara County HIV Planning Council Ryan White Standards of Care — 2012
  • Santa Clara Valley Health & Hospital Systems — 2012
  • Saudi Health Council — 2022
  • SF CAN (San Francisco Cancer Initiative) — 2021
  • SF General Hospital
  • SF POLST Coalition — 2011
  • SF Public Health Department — 2018
  • SFGH Emergency Dept HIV ER Routine Screening Study
  • SFGH Ward 86 — Multi-Year
  • SFHIP
  • Sutter Health
  • The Aging Services of California — 2010
  • The Centre for Care Research West Norway at the Bergen University College — 2017
  • The Drug Policy Alliance — 2022
  • The World Health Organization — 2016
  • U of Edinburgh, Cntr for Intntl. Public HP — 2008
  • U.S. & SJ Breastfeeding Coalition — 2022
  • UBCHO - The Center for Child and Community Health(CCCH) — 2024
  • UC Sacramento Summer Intern Program — 2008
  • UCSF - Through Deep Medicine Circle — 2024
  • UCSF 360 Positive Care & Women's Specialty — 2023
  • UCSF Hospital Epidemiology & Infection Control
  • UCSF Medical Center
  • UCSF SON - multiple departments, multiple faculty
  • UCSF-UCB Global Health Frameworks Program — 2010
  • UNICEF
  • University of California San Francisco's Federal Government Relations — 2021
  • World Health Organization — 2019
  • World Health Organization (Tobacco group) — 2018