The Health x Housing Lab at NYU Langone is committed to fostering the education and career development of future leaders at the intersection of health and housing and providing a platform to elevate the knowledge and expertise of people with lived experience of homelessness and housing insecurity.

Lab Scholar and Summer Consultant Programs

The Health x Housing Lab Scholar Program is a paid summer internship that aims to foster the career development of students (medical, social work, nursing, or other advanced degree students) dedicated to future work at the intersection of health and housing. In keeping with our core values, we seek applicants who are underrepresented in medicine, have lived experience of homelessness or housing insecurity, or both.

Our Summer Consultant Program is a paid position for a person with recent lived experience of homelessness or housing insecurity to contribute their expertise to the Lab and to participate in bidirectional mentorship with the Summer Scholars.

We are no longer accepting applications for the 2025 Lab Scholar and Consultant Program. Check back in January 2026.

2025 Lab Scholars and Summer Consultants

Nyah Ahmad (she/her)

Education: Columbia University
Hometown: Houston, TX
Academic Interests: social/structural determinants of health, urban studies/urban planning, abolition feminism, sociology, community-based participatory research practices

Nyah is an incoming second-year MPH student in Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia. She received her BA in Urban Studies from Barnard College. With both nonprofit and qualitative research experiences under her belt, Nyah seeks to understand how to reimagine and implement more equitable public health systems and research practices through abolition feminist frameworks. In her free time, Nyah enjoys laughing with her friends, live music, film photography, trying new restaurants, and exploring different neighborhoods and museums in the city.

Alric Nembhard (he/his)

Education: Yale College/University, Harvard University
Hometown: Spanish Town, Jamaica, W.I./Jamaica, Queens, New York
Academic interests: The health consequences of precarity; homelessness instance of “treatable” trauma.

Alric is a Director, Manager, and long-tenured Volunteer at Crossroads Community Services. He is also a member of the founding cohort of the Health x Housing Lab Speakers Bureau & Peer Network and a “Lived Experience” Research Consultant with the OATH study. In his spare time, Alric is an interior designer, an art curator, and a music arranger. He can often be found in one of New York City’s many jazz spots late-at-night and into the early morning.

2024 Lab Scholars and Summer Consultants

Vaishnavi Labhishetty
Constance Lee
Evelyn Graham- Nyaasi
Shawn Wilkins

2023 Lab Scholars and Summer Consultant

Esin Bulut Eden
Okopedeghe-Wetzel
Constance Woodson

2022 Lab Scholars and Summer Consultant

Aprotim Cory Bhowmik
Kadisha Davis
Gabe Fuligni

2021 Lab Scholar

Joya Ahmad