NHC SF Member Blog: Alumni Spotlight - Meet Saadhana Deshpande, NHC 2021-2022; 2022-2023 Alum!

“My background in community health has also proven very useful [at Drexel]: for example, as a part of our Health Advocacy Practicum, I’ve been placed with the Center for Addiction Medicine & Policy, which is one of Penn Medicine’s initiatives… I wouldn’t feel so confident doing that if it weren’t for my experience as a Health Worker at SFDPH, where I worked… to deliver naloxone training in San Francisco. And I wouldn’t have received that offer without my time in the National Health Corps… It really started with the Berkeley Free Clinic and NHC, and now I’m here!”

NHC SF Member Blog: Alumni Spotlight - Meet Vivian Yip, NHC SF 2022-2023 Alumna!

“I learned a lot during my NHC term at DPH - things like care coordination, listening, practicing curiosity, building relationships, and navigating care systems and as my term was ending, I felt like there was still more to learn from the teams and clients I had met.”

National Health CorpsAlan Arroyo-ChavezFebruary 17, 2026alumni, NHC, nationalhealthcorps, service, sfdph, san francisco

NHC SF Member Blog: Alumni Spotlight - Meet Whitney Francis, NHC SF 2019-2020 Alumna!

“I think the most impactful part of my service was in large part those relationships that I built with patients and with staff. At the heart of it, besides helping people to manage their chronic conditions through food, those relationships that you build through food pharmacy are also a big part of what the program is about.”

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