Marc Shi MD MSc AAHIVS completed medical school at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and residency in Primary Care/Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and is currently assistant professor in Internal Medicine and primary care physician at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY. He provides general and HIV primary care and is the clinical site coordinator for the Montefiore system-wide Ryan White funded HIV primary care program. He is the onsite provider at The Brook supportive housing for individuals with histories of chronic homelessness and serious mental illness, and is the site champion for the Montefiore system-wide social needs screening and referral program. He conducts research on accessing to housing services for individuals living with HIV, and he organizes with the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition and the Non-Violent Medicaid Army to fight for housing and health systems that prioritize people and communities over profit.
Shobana Ramasamy, MD is an assistant clinical professor in Internal Medicine working as a Primary Care Physician in the New York City public hospital system at Bellevue Hospital. She serves as the Director of Community Advocacy for the Bellevue Human Rights Program (known as Bellevue PSOT). She spends clinical time in the Bellevue Safety Net, Human Rights/Asylum, and Behavioral Health clinics in addition to working for the inpatient Safety Net Consults team, focused on supporting the transition for hospitalized patients experiencing homelessness to outpatient primary care. Outside of her clinical time, she organizes and advocates around housing and immigration justice through the Dignity not Detention Coalition, the New York Doctors Coalition, and supporting NYS Tenant Bloc.
Mohamed Hamzane MD is a graduate of the Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College and the coordinated BA/MD program with SUNY Downstate, class of 2025. Currently, he is an Internal Medicine resident at Montefiore Albert Einstein College of Medicine. While exploring career paths in Gastroenterology, Critical Care, and Hospitalist Medicine, he remains committed to community service and mentorship. His recent community involvement includes volunteering with The Samaritans of NYC Suicide Hotline and serving as an Internal Medicine mentor at SUNY Downstate
Evan Woo is a third-year medical student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine with interests in health justice and equity. He grew up in Closter, NJ and earned a BA in Neuroscience from Northwestern University in 2021. He is currently engaged in research on equitable strategies for blood pressure control across diverse populations. At Einstein, he serves as co-president of the chapters of Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP) and New York City Against Segregated Healthcare (NYCASH).
Title of Talk: Housing Policy is Health Policy: Examining Possibly Health Impacts of Proposed Housing Policy on New Yorkers
It is well established that access to safe, affordable, stable housing is a key social driver of health. Interventions that increase access to housing have been shown to be beneficial on a range of health outcomes, and the health impacts of targeted housing-related policy has been evaluated in specific contexts (e.g. eviction moratoria in the setting of the COVID-19 pandemic). This talk will provide a review of the current literature on the impacts of housing on health outcomes, and will then review the proposed housing platforms of the 2025 New York City mayoral candidates, with attention to the possible health effects of the different proposed policies.
Time: Oct. 08th, 2025 12:00 PM Eastern Time
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