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The Junior Doctors Academy (JDA) is a special academic enrichment program for motivated seventh and eighth grade students attending Kings Canyon, Sequoia and Terronez Middle Schools and who are interested in a career in medicine or another health profession.

Mentoring in Medicine & Science and EMS Corps, with funding provided by the Alameda County Health Pipeline Partnership, are piloting a program to engage Young Men of Color in a Pre-Health exposure program at Oakland Technical High School. A 13 week program at Oakland Technical High School that will expose young men of color to a variety of health professions. Students will receive relevant experience, from trained professionals, that they can apply to real-world situations. Other benefits will include academic support, mentorship, and preparation for admission into the Oakland Tech Health Academy.

The HENAAC Scholars Program addresses the immense need that the United States has to produce more domestic engineers and scientists. The goal of the program is to ensure STEM college retention with a 3.0 grade point average or higher; to guarantee college graduation with an undergraduate technical degree in four-five years; and, to contribute to Hispanic communities by producing STEM role models for future generations and securing the country's place as the finest technological leader in the world.

Dozier-Libbey Medical High School is located in Antioch, CA a primarily underserved community. Each year, we host a program for their junior physiology class in which students visit UCSF and experience a pathology seminar, visit to the Kanbar Center, hear from a UCSF faculty member and learn about medical school admissions.

Each year, for the past 18 years, approx. 75 seniors from the Doctor's Academy schools in the Central Valley (Sunnyside HS, Coruthers HS, and Selma HS) visit UCSF to experience a pathology lab and hear a faculty speaker. This program is in conjunction with the UCSF Fresno Latino Center.

MedLink is a partnership between UCSF medical students, SFUSD, OUSD and community organizations. Our mission is to inspire and support high school students from communities that are under-represented in the health professions through mentorship and hands-on activities in the health sciences. We envision a future in which healthcare workers come from backgrounds that are as ethnically and economically diverse as the communities they serve.

1-Week Neuroscience camp for rising high school juniors or seniors from SFUSD. Hands on activities, lectures about neuroscience diseases and research and lots of fun!

The GAPA Foundation Scholarship provides financial assistance to API LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer) students who are in the process of applying to, or are currently attending, a post-secondary institution. The purpose of the GAPA Foundation Scholarship is to provide financial assistance to Asian and Pacific Islander (API) students in high school; undergraduate, graduate or professional school; or trade or vocational school who are interested in activism in the API and LGBTQ communities.

PRIME hosts 4-5 health pipeline organizations to come and visit the UCSF campus during the summer. We have current partners that we invite, Mentoring in Medicine and Science, Huckleberry Youth Wellness Academy, San Francisco State Summer Science Institute, FACES for the Future. PRIME students work with the coordinators of the pipeline programs to develop a site visit that is in line with the interests of their programs. Some typical activities include a tour, a medical student panel, specimen/organ hands-on activity. Each program visits UCSF once for about 3 hours.

The Innovators in Young Women's Health Program (Innovators) is a 10-month health and leadership training program which empowers young women to create a project that uniquely addresses young women's health needs specific to their school community. Innovators are hired by the UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women's Health. Innovators is based on a positive youth development approach that emphasizes each girl's strengths and / assets. Working in teams, students develop a project for their school and implement it with the assistance of an adult ally in the school (wellness center staff, nurse, teacher, etc.). Innovators concludes in May with a celebration during which each team presents their projects.