“It's definitely not something that I was thinking about before,” Shalom Bandi said. She is one of many who got phlebotomy certified later.
Filiberto Hernandez, a homeless senior, was cobbling day laborer jobs in the Mission District. A.J. Burleson had moved up at a tech start-up in Oakland. Shalom Bandi was about to finish school, and like other soon-to-be 20-something graduates, was ostensibly on the cusp of the rest of her life.
“I hope that the institutions who benefited from the community coming together and being part of the solution remember that the community is part of the solution,” said Dr. Kim Rhoads, director for engagement at UCSF’s cancer center. Then she came across a Latino Task Force volunteer job to help deliver food on 701 Alabama St., and got it. “It’s definitely not something that I was thinking about before,” Bandi said.
Bandi wasn’t the only recent grad who accidentally entered the phlebotomy industry. From her spiffy new desk at the BayPLS on a recent weekday, Susy Rojas laughed at the girl she used to be in 2020 — one who could not find jobs related to her Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology degree from UC Davis and who turned to Uber for money.
Just last week, Unidos en Salud announced it received some 1,000 shots of Covid-19 boosters, administered from BayPLS, which Rojas helped coordinate. When Dr. Rhoads decided to launch Covid-19 testing in Bayview Hunters Point, she knew she needed local expertise. “I would not have been able to leverage the resources that UCSF has… if they weren’t being delivered by the people in the community,” Rhoads said.
As Rhoads expanded her health efforts to create the collaboration Umoja Health, a collaboration focused on Black health in the Bay Area, Burleson stayed on. They planned pop-ups in East Oakland and Bayview, where besides offering covid services they check cholesterol and monitor blood pressure. “We’re absolutely reaching people who normally wouldn’t get those symptoms checked,” Burleson said.
He enrolled at Bay Area Medical Academy on Bush Street in September 2021 and became certified in October 2022. The school’s student body is 46 percent Hispanic, 21 percent Black, and 5 percent white; a 2017Many are hired soon after graduating, filling jobs in high demand at local medical centers like UCSF, the health department and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Burleson took a job at Carbon Health, a healthcare chain.
While many volunteers later left the health field, the skills they built translated to other industries. Temi Salako, who oversees an Umoja youth program, says that’s as important to establishing healthy communities. “We don’t want people to think the only way to contribute to healthcare is to be a doctor or nurse,” Salako said. “It’s multidisciplinary.”
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