Founded in 2007 thanks to a generous start-up grant from Kaiser Permanente of Southern California, the Los Angeles Schweitzer Fellows Program is one of thirteen Schweitzer program sites across the U.S. dedicated to developing a pipeline of emerging professionals who enter the workforce with the skills and commitment necessary to address unmet health needs.

Since the program’s inception, Schweitzer Fellows in Los Angeles—competitively chosen from health-focused graduate student applicants in a variety of fields—have worked tirelessly to address health disparities and the social determinants of health throughout the greater Los Angeles area.

To read more about what being a Schweitzer Fellow in Los Angeles entails and to find out how to apply, please visit our application page. Click here to download an informational one-pager about the Los Angeles Schweitzer Fellows program, which is funded entirely by charitable donations and grants. Make a gift, make a difference!

OUR IMPACT

Since 2007, more than 30 Schweitzer Fellows have provided over 6,000 hours of service to Los Angeles’s most vulnerable communities. Partnering with area community-based organizations, these Fellows have addressed a wide variety of unmet health needs by creating and carrying out yearlong projects with direct service at their core. Examples include the following initiatives:

• Establishing an outreach-based syringe exchange program for homeless injection drug users in Los Angeles
• Launching Los Angeles’s first micro-health clinic for post-incarcerated female youth
• Developing a program addressing diabetes and obesity in at-risk teens and pre-teens
• Creating a case management intervention that improves delivery of medical and mental health care to low-income and uninsured patients
• Implementing Asian Pacific American Health Collaboration Access Resource and Education (APA Health Care) to provide vulnerable populations with screenings for obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and Hepatitis B