Our Leadership
Community leaders, medical doctors, educators and community service providers are working together through a unique partnership known as Seva*.
Seva*’s highly-involved partners include…
SFGH Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program Physicians:
The UCSF Internal Medicine Residency Primary Care track at SFGH is a program that is committed to training physicians to be leaders in the care of the underserved. The residents in the program all work in primary care clinics based at SFGH, and therefore care for many people who reside in Bayview Hunters Point.
Jeffrey Betcher
Bayview Resident, Quesada Gardens Initiative/Bayview Footprints Network
Jeffrey Betcher is a Bayview Hunters Point resident and community organizer with public and institutional policy experience at the national level. He advocates for strengthening local systems, especially social systems, and for prioritizing community-building as a primary social change strategy. He co-founded and leads the award-winning Quesada Gardens Initiative (www.QuesadaGardens.org), and organizes Bayview Footprints Network of Community-Building Groups.
Dr. Sharad Jain, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, SFGH Internal Medicine Residency Program
Dr. Sharad Jain was born in India, grew up in Berkeley, and graduated from UC Stanford (undergraduate) and UC San Francisco (medical school and residency in internal medicine). He joined the UCSF faculty in 1997 and has been based at San Francisco General Hospital since 2007. He currently serves as the director of the UCSF/SFGH Primary Care Medicine Residency Program, a track designed to train residents who choose to be leaders in the care of the underserved.
Sudeep Motupalli Rao, PhD
Bayview Resident and Founding Partner, Deep-Solutions & BeautifulCommunities.org
Sudeep Rao is a community engineer focused on the design of systems solutions. An immigrant from south India with experience in the academic, nonprofit, government and private semiconductor industry environments, he works on innovation and cross-sector partnerships. He has worked for the last 7 years for environmental justice in the Bayview Hunters Point community of San Francisco, where he lives. He advises the University of California at San Francisco on building effective community partnerships as well as the U.S. Navy on the cleanup of the local Superfund site.
Roberto Ariel Vargas, MPH
Bayview Resident and Community Health Advocate
Roberto Vargas has worked in San Francisco community- and school-based organizations since the 80's, primarily leading programs that strengthen the capacity of activists and struggling youth-of-color. For the past five years, he has worked to build alliances between UCSF and San Francisco's communities and institutional partners to promote health justice and reduce health disparity. His formal training is in Public Health and Sociology with an emphasis in Community Health Equity. His informal training is in Social Justice and Healing Community Trauma. A Bayview resident for 22 years, Roberto loves to play tag at Silver Terrace Park with his children.
Seva* has formed an “Accountability Committee” of community leaders and experts to hold Seva* accountable for including what the community truly agrees to in the final policy brief.
Seva*’s Accountability Council includes…
Dr. Ayanna Bennett, 3rd Street Youth Clinic
Saul Bloom, ArcEcology
Dr. Nadine Burke, CPMC's Bayview Pediatric Care Center
Ed Donaldson, Corporation for Public Housing
Maryann Fleming, Portola Family Connections
Christina Goette, SF DPH
Emanuel Hepburn, BVHP YMCA
Espanola Jackson, BVHP Resident
Marie Harrison, GreenAction for Health and Environmental Justice
Na'im Harrison, Re-entry Program, Positive Directions Equals Change, N. California Service League
Michael Janis, SF Wholesale Produce Market
Wylie Liu, UCSF's University Community Partnerships
Malik Looper, Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ)
Barbara Ockel, Bayview Opera House
Elizabeth Ortega, Portola Family Connections
Chester Palesoo, Asian Pacific Islander Family Resources Network
Karen G. Pierce, BVHP Community Advocates, BVHP Health and Environmental Assessment Task Force
Randolph Quezada, Public Policy Specialist, UCSF's University Community Partnerships
Tino Ratliff, New Generation Health Center
Yvette Mari Robles, BMAGIC
Dr. Amor Santiago, Asian Pacific Islander Family Resources Network
Dr. Naomi Wortis, UCSF/SFGH, Community & Family Medicine
Seva* invites organizational support for the policy brief and advocacy tool.
Participating organizations include…
African American Community Health Equity Council
Bayview YMCA
BVHP Multipurpose Senior Service Center
Beautiful Communities
Black Coalition on AIDS
Quesada Gardens Initiative
ShapeUp San Francisco
BMagic Collaboration
San Francisco Housing Development Corporation
Southeast Food Access Working Group
University Community Partnerships
Willie Mays Boys & Girls Club
Seva* emerged from the Southeast Food Access Working Group (SEFA).
The SEFA Working Group is led by…
Christina Goette, MPH
SF Department of Public Health/SEFA Facilitator
Christina Goette is committed to the principles of youth development, social justice, reducing health inequities, and the creation of environments that promote safety and health for all community residents. She serves as a Senior Health Program Planner in the Community Health Promotion and Prevention Branch working in Chronic Disease Prevention and coordinates a citywide initiative, Mayor’s Challenge: Shape Up San Francisco. Christina is staff to the Shape Up SF Coalition and the Southeast Food Access Working Group, a collaborative partnership between government agencies, community based organizations, and residents, working to create a healthy, robust food system in the Bayview Hunters Point.
Susana Hennessey-Lavery, MPH
SF Department of Public Health/SEFA Facilitator
Susana Hennessey-Lavery is a Health Educator with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Tobacco Free Project. She is responsible for co-design and implementation of the comprehensive tobacco control plan. She participates on the Bay Area Committee of Vision y Compromiso, a statewide network of promotores/community health workers. Previous to her current position, she coordinated the Casa CHE program at La Clinica De La Raza in Oakland, California.
Michael Janis
General Manager, SF Wholesale Produce Market/SEFA Co-Chair
Michael Janis is the General Manager of the San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market, a commercial institution in the Bayview Hunters Point nei ghborhood. The San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market is an association of dedicated professionals, united at one distribution center, committed to being the Bay Area's leading source of produce and produce information.
Jacob Moody, M. Div, MSW
Executive Director, BVHP Foundation for Community Improvement/SEFA Co-Chair
Jacob Moody is Executive Director of the Bayview Hunters Point Foundation for Community Improvement. He has a long history of service in the Bay Area including pastorates in the United Methodist Church, Director of Balboa Teen Health Center for the Department of Public Health and a Program Officer for The California Endowment. He received a Master of Divinity degree from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley and a Masters of Social Work from San Francisco State University.
John Weiss (Laptop Academy)
John Weiss is a Bayview resident, website and data management specialist, and educator. He participated in community-based Seva* dialogues, and is the talent behind this website.
Seva*’s highly-involved partners include…
SFGH Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program Physicians:
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Dr. Soraya Azari, MD Dr Palav Babaria, MD Dr. Sanjay Basu, MD Dr. Lisa Bebell, MD Dr. David Brody, MD Dr. Chitra Chandran, MD Dr. Jenny Chang, MD Dr. Bonnie Chen, MD Dr. Anna Chodos, MD |
Dr. Leslie Cockerham, MD Dr. Denise Connor, MD Dr. David Dowdy, MD Dr. Damon Francis, MD Dr. Meredith Greene, MD Dr. Joshua Hanson, MD Dr. Risha Irby, MD Dr. Devora Keller, MD Dr. Basim Khan, MD |
Dr. Mia Lozada, MD Dr. Carina Marquez, MD Dr. Matthew Roosevelt, MD Dr. Shobha Sadasivaiah, MD Dr. Jennifer Siegel, MD Dr. Larissa Thomas, MD Dr. Vanessa Thompson, MD Dr. Joyce Viloria, MD Dr. Jennie Wei, MD |
The UCSF Internal Medicine Residency Primary Care track at SFGH is a program that is committed to training physicians to be leaders in the care of the underserved. The residents in the program all work in primary care clinics based at SFGH, and therefore care for many people who reside in Bayview Hunters Point.
The Seva* Organizers are...
Jeffrey Betcher Bayview Resident, Quesada Gardens Initiative/Bayview Footprints Network
Jeffrey Betcher is a Bayview Hunters Point resident and community organizer with public and institutional policy experience at the national level. He advocates for strengthening local systems, especially social systems, and for prioritizing community-building as a primary social change strategy. He co-founded and leads the award-winning Quesada Gardens Initiative (www.QuesadaGardens.org), and organizes Bayview Footprints Network of Community-Building Groups.
Dr. Sharad Jain, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, SFGH Internal Medicine Residency Program
Dr. Sharad Jain was born in India, grew up in Berkeley, and graduated from UC Stanford (undergraduate) and UC San Francisco (medical school and residency in internal medicine). He joined the UCSF faculty in 1997 and has been based at San Francisco General Hospital since 2007. He currently serves as the director of the UCSF/SFGH Primary Care Medicine Residency Program, a track designed to train residents who choose to be leaders in the care of the underserved.
Sudeep Motupalli Rao, PhD Bayview Resident and Founding Partner, Deep-Solutions & BeautifulCommunities.org
Sudeep Rao is a community engineer focused on the design of systems solutions. An immigrant from south India with experience in the academic, nonprofit, government and private semiconductor industry environments, he works on innovation and cross-sector partnerships. He has worked for the last 7 years for environmental justice in the Bayview Hunters Point community of San Francisco, where he lives. He advises the University of California at San Francisco on building effective community partnerships as well as the U.S. Navy on the cleanup of the local Superfund site.
Roberto Ariel Vargas, MPH Bayview Resident and Community Health Advocate
Roberto Vargas has worked in San Francisco community- and school-based organizations since the 80's, primarily leading programs that strengthen the capacity of activists and struggling youth-of-color. For the past five years, he has worked to build alliances between UCSF and San Francisco's communities and institutional partners to promote health justice and reduce health disparity. His formal training is in Public Health and Sociology with an emphasis in Community Health Equity. His informal training is in Social Justice and Healing Community Trauma. A Bayview resident for 22 years, Roberto loves to play tag at Silver Terrace Park with his children.
Seva* has formed an “Accountability Committee” of community leaders and experts to hold Seva* accountable for including what the community truly agrees to in the final policy brief.
Seva*’s Accountability Council includes…
Dr. Ayanna Bennett, 3rd Street Youth Clinic
Saul Bloom, ArcEcology
Dr. Nadine Burke, CPMC's Bayview Pediatric Care Center
Ed Donaldson, Corporation for Public Housing
Maryann Fleming, Portola Family Connections
Christina Goette, SF DPH
Emanuel Hepburn, BVHP YMCA
Espanola Jackson, BVHP Resident
Marie Harrison, GreenAction for Health and Environmental Justice
Na'im Harrison, Re-entry Program, Positive Directions Equals Change, N. California Service League
Michael Janis, SF Wholesale Produce Market
Wylie Liu, UCSF's University Community Partnerships
Malik Looper, Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ)
Barbara Ockel, Bayview Opera House
Elizabeth Ortega, Portola Family Connections
Chester Palesoo, Asian Pacific Islander Family Resources Network
Karen G. Pierce, BVHP Community Advocates, BVHP Health and Environmental Assessment Task Force
Randolph Quezada, Public Policy Specialist, UCSF's University Community Partnerships
Tino Ratliff, New Generation Health Center
Yvette Mari Robles, BMAGIC
Dr. Amor Santiago, Asian Pacific Islander Family Resources Network
Dr. Naomi Wortis, UCSF/SFGH, Community & Family Medicine
Seva* invites organizational support for the policy brief and advocacy tool.
Participating organizations include…
African American Community Health Equity Council
Bayview YMCA
BVHP Multipurpose Senior Service Center
Beautiful Communities
Black Coalition on AIDS
Quesada Gardens Initiative
ShapeUp San Francisco
BMagic Collaboration
San Francisco Housing Development Corporation
Southeast Food Access Working Group
University Community Partnerships
Willie Mays Boys & Girls Club
Seva* emerged from the Southeast Food Access Working Group (SEFA).
The SEFA Working Group is led by…
Christina Goette, MPH SF Department of Public Health/SEFA Facilitator
Christina Goette is committed to the principles of youth development, social justice, reducing health inequities, and the creation of environments that promote safety and health for all community residents. She serves as a Senior Health Program Planner in the Community Health Promotion and Prevention Branch working in Chronic Disease Prevention and coordinates a citywide initiative, Mayor’s Challenge: Shape Up San Francisco. Christina is staff to the Shape Up SF Coalition and the Southeast Food Access Working Group, a collaborative partnership between government agencies, community based organizations, and residents, working to create a healthy, robust food system in the Bayview Hunters Point.
Susana Hennessey-Lavery, MPH
SF Department of Public Health/SEFA Facilitator
Susana Hennessey-Lavery is a Health Educator with the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Tobacco Free Project. She is
Michael Janis General Manager, SF Wholesale Produce Market/SEFA Co-Chair
Michael Janis is the General Manager of the San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market, a commercial institution in the Bayview Hunters Point nei
Jacob Moody, M. Div, MSWExecutive Director, BVHP Foundation for Community Improvement/SEFA Co-Chair
Jacob Moody is Executive Director of the Bayview Hunters Point Foundation for Community Improvement. He has a long history of service in the Bay Area including pastorates in the United Methodist Church, Director of Balboa Teen Health Center for the Department of Public Health and a Program Officer for The California Endowment. He received a Master of Divinity degree from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley and a Masters of Social Work from San Francisco State University.
Website development...
John Weiss (Laptop Academy)John Weiss is a Bayview resident, website and data management specialist, and educator. He participated in community-based Seva* dialogues, and is the talent behind this website.
