Community service awards throughout the years

Awards and Publications

Awards & Grants

Shifa Community Clinic is absolutely honored to have received several community service awards throughout the years.
The Sacramento Arab American Chamber of Commerce Community Service Award 2002
Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition Award 2002
Kaplan Award for Excellence in Student Team Work 2002-2003
University of California, Davis Student Programs & Activities Center, Outstanding Contribution to the Community Award 2003
University of California, Davis Community Service Award 2003
University of California, Davis Outstanding Community Service Award 2004
Islamic Medical Association of North America, Inc. Community Service Award 2005
Council on American Islamic Relations Sacramento Valley Distinguished Service Award 2014
Sacramento Area League of Associated Muslims Award for Exceptional Community Service 2016
Susan B. Komen Grant
University of California, Davis Building Career Pathways Award 2023
University of California, Davis Trailblazing Innovators Award 2023
  • Shifa Community Clinic is the 2023 recipient of the Building Career Pathways Award and Trailblazing Innovators Award.
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  • The Trailblazing Innovators Award recognizes a registered student organization that demonstrates an influential societal, communal, or individual impact through their ingenuity of a product, resource, event, or service within the academic year. The Building Career Pathways Award recognizes a registered student organization that successfully promotes professional growth and achieves organizational achieves organizational ambitions for successful transition into the workplace within the academic year.

“As a recipient of the esteemed “Building Career Pathways and Trailblazing Innovators Award” from UC Davis, we, Shifa Community Clinic, are truly honored and grateful. This award not only recognizes our commitment to serving the diverse and medically uninsured population, but also acknowledges the remarkable dedication and hard work of our UC Davis student volunteers who have played a crucial role in our success. Our dedication lies in serving the diverse and medically uninsured population of the Greater Sacramento Area. We are committed to providing high-quality, free healthcare services in the community. Our mission goes beyond medical care as we strive to integrate socially and medically disenfranchised communities into the mainstream healthcare system.

Shifa Community Clinic serves as a catalyst for students for continued growth, innovation, professional development, and remains dedicated to inspiring and empowering to strive for excellence in all aspects of academic and personal endeavors.

This recognition encourages Shifa to continue pushing boundaries, embracing change, and striving for excellence in healthcare innovation.” 

–Shifa Community Clinic Board of Directors 

Research & Publications

Manjot Sandhu, BS*; Hammad Khan, MPH*; Suhail Zeb, BS; Pranaya Venkatapuram, BS; Shagufta Yasmeen, MD. Covered California Awareness in the Middle Eastern and South Asian Community; Jan 26, 2016 – Primary Research – UCDHSR Volume 1
Measuring outcomes of culturally tailored health education program at Shifa Clinic over 10 years. A longitudinal cohort study. Under review.
Poster Presentation in ACP Northern California Chapter meeting
Colorectal Cancer Screening in Shifa Community Clinic over 6 years
Mammography Screening in Middle Eastern and South Asians Women