Meet the seniors who live for lunch. An innovative program doesn’t just feed seniors a low cost meal. It gets people out of home isolation to experience the special treat of a restaurant meal — and the social nourishment that food alone can’t provide.
Read MoreState and local public health officials joined Supervisor Joel Engardio for a City Hall press conference to sound the alarm about the threat of hepatitis B in San Francisco.
Read MoreRugby is alive and well in the Sunset as today’s teens embrace a sport connected to Irish immigrants decades ago. Meet the coaches and young players who say when it comes to rugby “there’s just too much to like”
Read MoreMeet Peggy Jiang, Sandy La, and Christine Wen. They have worked at Chinese Hospital’s Sunset clinic for a combined total of nearly 50 years. And they’re made the “tiny but mighty” clinic an essential place for many Sunset residents. Learn why the patients love them in return.
Read MoreSupervisor Joel Engardio shares the story of his late boyfriend Mark Lim to raise awareness for the group San Francisco Hep B Free Bay Area.
Read MoreDo you still believe in San Francisco? I do. I’m running for supervisor to create our best San Francisco.
Read MoreVideo series that features Joel Engardio interviewing community members and leaders in San Francisco about how they are handling sheltering in place during the coronavirus pandemic.
Read MoreMore than 200 people joined our petition asking the Board of Supervisors to not interfere with Sheriff Paul Miyamoto’s ability to keep jail inmates and the general public safe during the coronavirus pandemic. Our voices were heard and Miyamoto was able to get amendments added to legislation he initially said was “a threat to public safety” because it wouldn’t allow him to add beds to remaining jails upon the closure of an old jail. But why did we have to send letters asking supervisors to let the sheriff do his job in the middle of a pandemic?
Read MoreHundreds of San Franciscans signed our petition asking Stonestown Mall to offer its parking lot as a coronavirus testing site. Their voices were heard and we’re continuing the petition to advocate for even more expanded testing.
Read MoreWe need to ramp up coronavirus testing. We need a safe place to get tested while practicing social distancing. What if we turned the giant — and mostly empty — parking lot at Stonestown Mall into a drive-thru testing site? Sign the petition to make it happen.
Read MoreCoronavirus pandemic information about shelter in place order for San Francisco residents.
Read MoreSan Francisco must do all it can to protect our seniors, children, and small businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. We're taking important steps and we can learn from other countries. We must follow Taiwan — not Italy — and heed this quote: “Everything we do before a pandemic will seem alarmist. Everything we do after a pandemic will seem inadequate.”
Read MoreA personal story of Joel Engardio’s relationship with Mark Lim, who died of liver cancer at age 31 in 2001.
Read MoreRiding a tech bus to Silicon Valley has nothing to do with hepatitis B, but there's a good chance some of the passengers have the virus and don't know it. Why? Major risk factors include being millennial and Asian & Pacific Islander (APIs comprise nearly half of tech jobs and a quarter of the population in the Bay Area). Inaction can lead to death by liver cancer. That's why Arcadi Kolchak and Richard So are fighting to save their generation — and yours.
Read MoreBy Joel P. Engardio -- Baby boomers changed everything because they were never content with the old rules of sex -- or career, or parenting or retirement. Now senior citizens, they are beginning to face a final taboo harder to break than sex ever was. Death has a lot of room for improvement.
Read MoreBy Joel P. Engardio -- David Traylor attacked a tourist in a crack-fueled schizophrenic episode. But he isn't psychotic, in jail or dead today thanks to San Francisco's Behavioral Health Court. He is medicated, has a home and a job. Yet homeless and mentally ill people who haven't committed felonies are left to suffer as they scream at commuters and use the sidewalk as a toilet. Why don't we treat people who can't take care of themselves before they become violent?
Read MoreJoel Engardio gives a tribute to his late boyfriend Dr. Mark Lim, who died of liver cancer at age 31 caused by Hepatitis B. The speech is part of an event by Stanford University's Asian Liver Center and Jade Ribbon Campaign to raise awareness of the "Silent Epidemic" of Hepatitis B and liver cancer in the Asian American population. Engardio spoke at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco on November 20, 2003.
Read MoreA silent epidemic more deadly than HIV -- liver cancer caused by hepatitis B -- threatens to engulf the Bay Area Asian American community.
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