Since February 2026, ARCH Collaborative has hosted a monthly clinic at Little Tokyo Service Center’s Umeya supportive housing complex in Skid Row, home to about 200 residents.
Services and partners
Each clinic offers primary care, harm reduction, medication reconciliation, mutual aid, and specialist referrals, in close partnership with each patient’s case manager to ensure continuity across visits.
Dr. Jerry Abraham of Kedren Health serves as our attending physician. We additionally partner with Los Angeles General Medical Center, the USC Mann School of Pharmacy, and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health harm reduction team to provide a full spectrum of services to our patients. We are now expanding point-of-care preventive screening and patient navigation.
Umeya Street Medicine Clinic Teams, 2026
70+patient visits in the first 9 months
12services offered
50+volunteers
5partner organizations
Research
$102,546
Research funding awarded in medical school
Including fellowships, scholarships, and NIH-funded grants
Policy and infrastructure shape patient-centered outcomes in oncology
Among 31,126 adults with cancer in the NIH All of Us cohort, living more than 15 minutes from a public transit stop was associated with worse quality of life, pain, and fatigue. We presented this work at the World Cancer Congress in Hong Kong and the IARC 60th Anniversary Conference.
Limited transit access was associated with worse pain, fatigue, and quality of life among adults with cancer
Adjusted odds with a transit stop more than 15 minutes away, compared with 15 minutes or less
Source: NIH All of Us Research Program.
Barriers to care shift across the lifespan among 15,637 cancer survivors
ASCO Conquer Cancer Merit Award, top 1.8% of 7,775 abstracts
Ages 18 to 39Financial support, elder care resources, and medical notes for time off work
Ages 40 to 49Child care and transportation support
Ages 50 to 74Transportation support
Odds of forgoing care because of cost fell sharply with age
Specialist carePrimary care
Source: NIH All of Us Research Program. Presented at ASCO, 2025.
Preventive medicine and lifestyle approaches remain vastly underutilized despite robust evidence of improvements in health outcomes
Es Tiempo is a culturally tailored cervical cancer screening campaign in eastern Los Angeles. We surveyed 673 Hispanic women living in the campaign area (JNCI Cancer Spectrum, 2025).
Campaign recall was nearly double the US benchmark
Benchmark: US awareness of government healthy-eating campaigns (Goodman et al., 2021).
Built with partners across sectors
Community-based
Community advisory board
Promotores de salud
Clínica Monseñor Oscar Romero, a federally qualified health center
Academic
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Government
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Office of Women’s Health
Los Angeles General Medical Center
Multidisciplinary
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Designmatters at ArtCenter College of Design
A framework for resilient communities and health systems
In our review of 46 studies across 19 countries, we developed a framework of community-based solutions to minimize care disruptions during natural disasters (PLOS Global Public Health, 2025).
Community health workers and volunteersTrained community members used mobile check-ins to conduct symptom screening and encourage medication adherence of neighbors with chronic diseases.
TechnologyRemote blood pressure and glucose monitoring enabled continued health surveillance, with just-in-time text alerts helping at-risk patients shelter against extreme heat.
LogisticsEvacuation vehicles should be contracted from outside the disaster zone and equipped to handle durable medical equipment, such as wheelchairs and oxygen.
3.5×Citation rate compared with a typical NIH-funded paper in its fieldNIH iCite, November 2026
Wildfire smoke and lung cancer · NIEHS P30ES007048
Modular Airborne Firefighting System C-130E Drops Fire Retardant on the Simi Fire, Southern California, 2003. Credit: Staff Sgt. Alex Koenig, U.S. Air Force
I was awarded an NIEHS-funded grant to study how wildfire smoke affects mortality among people living with lung cancer. Using an open-source machine learning ensemble model, we estimated short- and long-term exposure to wildfire and non-wildfire fine particulate matter (PM2.5) for patients across the California Cancer Registry.
Few studies have separated wildfire smoke from other sources of PM2.5 among cancer survivors. Because wildfires are episodic, we also measured exposure as smoke days, severe smoke days, and smoke waves, not only as average levels.
About two-thirds of cancer deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, yet oncology remains largely neglected in global health. I aim to close that gap by pairing proven prevention with community partnerships and accessible technology.
Philippines
Promoting cancer prevention among children in street situations
Manila is my family's hometown. In April 2026, I joined ChildHope Philippines to teach tobacco use prevention and to help provide care at its KliniKalye Street Medicine Van.
I look forward to returning to the Philippines to improve cancer outcomes for urban unhoused populations. I also hope to grow this work by partnering to pilot, fund, and sustain solutions.
ChildHope Philippines, Manila, 2026. Posted With Permission.
Japan
Studying diet, H. pylori, and gastric cancer risk at the National Cancer Center of Japan
Dean’s Research Scholar, National Cancer Center of Japan, 2024 to 2025
Best Poster, Asian National Cancer Centers Alliance Annual Scientific Meeting, Singapore, 2024
Mentored by Dr. Manami Inoue, the first Asian chair of the IARC Scientific Council
Built Cox proportional hazards models of diet and H. pylori across a multicenter cohort
Japanese Cancer Association Annual Meeting, Kanazawa, 2025Asia Cohort Consortium General Membership Meeting, Seoul National University, 2024
Kenya
Tracing how COVID-19 disrupted chronic disease care
Breman Global Health Fellow, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, 2022
Selected as one of two USC students each year for chronic disease research at APHRC headquarters
Analyzed patient and provider interviews from all eight provinces for the Global Effort on COVID-19 (GECO) study
Presented findings on care disruptions and financial toxicity at APHRC and at USC
Hong Kong2026World Cancer Congress Poster Presentation
Building community resilience against extreme weather and chronic disease
Volunteers, City, and Community Partners Before Opening, Los Angeles Environmental Health Fair, 2026. Credit: Roxy Morris
Connecting MacArthur Park residents to lung cancer screening, insurance enrollment, and extreme heat resources
As CEO of ARCH Collaborative, I led the Los Angeles Environmental Health Fair with the office of Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, Clínica Romero, KYCC, the California Lung Cancer Coalition and more than ten other partners, and together we served an estimated 300 community members.
Los Angeles Environmental Health Fair, MacArthur Park, 2026. Credit: Roxy Morris and Maria Rozanova
Improving Extreme Weather & Health Knowledge in Underserved Communities
At the 2026 LA Environmental Health Fair, we surveyed attendees to gauge intervention effectiveness. 72% of those surveyed had Medi-Cal or no insurance, and 73% spoke primarily Spanish at home.
Share of attendees who knew how to take each step, before and after the fair
Checking the Air Quality Index
Before31%
After69%
Limiting Smoke Exposure
Before36%
After73%
Finding a Cooling Center
Before41%
After55%
Source: ARCH Collaborative attendee survey, April 2026.
ARCH Scholars Roundtable with Koreatown Youth and Community Center, 2025
Preparing the next generation of environmental health leaders
Through ARCH Scholars, our NIH-funded bilingual program, high school students in Los Angeles build environmental health solutions of their own. At our Fall 2025 Roundtable with LA City Council District 1 and Koreatown Youth and Community Center, youth leaders from Westlake designed solutions for their neighborhood, and they voted on how to direct more than $12,000 in community investment. The scholars’ median age was 15, and most spoke Spanish at home.
After a single session, the share of scholars who agreed they know how communities can address climate and health problems doubled
Before38%
After75%
Source: ARCH Scholars Roundtable pre- and post-session surveys, Fall 2025.
Each year, medical advances are expanding possibilities for life-saving cancer care. However, whether someone can benefit from these advances largely depends on the systems around them: how far it is to the nearest clinic, whether information is accessible in their language, and whether care gets delayed or disrupted due to cost or other barriers.
I hope to dedicate my career to demonstrating how quality cancer care can be delivered in low-resource settings, so that every patient has access to the care they need.
Outside of medicine
Kuri Along for the Ride at CicLAvia, Chinatown, Los Angeles, 2025
Bay to Breakers Start Line, San Francisco, 2019
Umbrella Street Below the Château de l’Empéri, Salon-de-Provence, France, 2021
Bike Touring Through Chavanay, France, 2021
Roadside Bike Repair, Giverny, France, 2021
Machu Picchu, Peru, 2022
Cycling the Coast, Yakumo, Japan, 2022
Biking in Peru, 2022
Mount Fuji from Arakurayama Sengen Park, Fujiyoshida, Japan, 2024
Island Hopping, Coron, Philippines, 2024
I love painting, running, and cycling, best with an audiobook playing and my senior dog Kuri along for the ride. Slowly working toward my yoga teacher training certification, and have practiced vinyasa yoga for over a decade.
Past runs and cycles
2019Bay to Breakers, San Francisco
2019Berkeley Half Marathon
2021WHO COVID-19 Response Fund Fundraiser: Cycling from Nice to Le Havre, France
2022Los Angeles Marathon
2022Cycling from Wakkanai to Sendai, Japan
2023Joshua Tree Half Marathon
2024AYA Cancer Program at USC Fundraiser: Los Angeles Marathon
World Cancer Congress, Hong Kong, 2026Welcome to California, Watercolor and Ink on Paper, Berkeley, 2019Clínica Romero Screening Table, Los Angeles Environmental Health Fair, 2026. Credit: Maria RozanovaTobacco Use Prevention Session with ChildHope Philippines, Manila, 2026. Posted With Permission.Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, 2026IARC 60th Anniversary Conference, Lyon, France, 2026Air Purifier Giveaway, Los Angeles Environmental Health Fair, 2026. Credit: Roxy Morris
Volunteers with Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez, Los Angeles Environmental Health Fair, 2026Hands and Skin Tones, Watercolor and Ink on Paper, 2019Cycling with Kuri, Los Angeles, 2025Umeya Street Medicine Clinic Launch with Kedren Health, Skid Row, 2026ARCH Collaborative Tree Planting Volunteer Event, Gates Street Elementary School, Lincoln Heights, 2025Chalk Art at the Los Angeles Environmental Health Fair, 2026. Credit: Roxy MorrisWith the ChildHope Philippines Team, Manila, 2026Finisher Medal, Los Angeles Marathon, 2024Fresh Produce, Los Angeles Environmental Health Fair, 2026. Credit: Roxy Morris
Contact
I am always glad to connect with collaborators, students, and community partners, and I welcome invitations to speak.
