HAVEN Free Clinic
Himani Pattisam is currently a Health Department Intern at Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services, focusing on creating educational materials for immigrant families and researching local healthcare programs. As Co-Director of the Food as Medicine Initiative at HAVEN Free Clinic, Himani co-wrote a grant application that secured $20,000 for the clinic. In various roles at HAVEN, including Director of the Medical Debt & Insurance Counseling Department, Himani has provided crucial support to uninsured patients, particularly Spanish-speaking immigrants, and trained new volunteers. In addition, Himani serves as an Undergraduate Research Assistant at Yale University, conducting research on mosquito behavior to enhance vector regulation technology. Academic involvement includes tutoring biology students at the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning and holding leadership roles in public health policy initiatives and immigrant advocacy. Upcoming endeavors include a Summer Associate position at Boston Consulting Group and pursuing a Master of Public Health at Yale School of Public Health, building on a Bachelor of Science from Yale University.
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HAVEN Free Clinic
The HAVEN Free Clinic is a student-run primary care clinic that partners with Yale University to provide the New Haven community access to comprehensive, high-quality health care free of charge. Our model is unique because we include members across various disciplines in health care, including medicine, nursing, physician’s associate programs, and public health. We serve as a sustainable free clinic that provides uninsured adults in New Haven with primary care, wellness education, and assistance in securing health care while simultaneously educating health professional students at Yale about patient care and community health. HAVEN operates on Saturdays from 9am-12pm out of the Yale Physicians Building. Since opening our doors in November 2005, we have conducted over 4000 adult patient visits, representing more than 450 unique patients. Patients are seen by teams of senior and junior students with guidance from faculty preceptors. Currently, we see an average of 30 patients per week.