Health and health care
UC Berkeley is home to experts in numerous health-related fields, including disease transmission, air and water quality, insurance, law and public policy. The School of Public Health is a hub for health research, and scholars in units across campus study all aspects of the topic.
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Professor emeritus of environmental health sciences
Air pollution, respiratory and cardiovascular health, exposure to pesticides, psychosocial stress. UC Berkeley News, The New York Times, Crosscut
Professor of health policy and management
HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, global infectious disease response and program evaluations. San Francisco Chronicle, School of Public Health
Assistant professor of community health sciences
Restorative justice, school discipline and youth mental health. UC Berkeley News, NBC News, The New York Times, The Washington Post
Professor of health policy and management
Health insurance economics, health policy, aging. San Francisco Chronicle, KQED, School of Public Health
Assistant professor of environmental health sciences
Climate change and climate policy, health impacts of wildfire smoke, oil and gas development. UC Berkeley News, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times. Speaker of Spanish and English.
Associate professor in residence of environmental health sciences
Disease related to water and sanitation, antimicrobial resistance, zoonotic infectious diseases. UC Berkeley News, Nautilus
Assistant adjunct professor of epidemiology
Health impacts of crowd control weapons, human rights violations, torture and war crimes, humanitarian law and health. The New York Times, The Guardian, Associated Press, The Washington Post
Professor of bioethics; Co-director of the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science and the Public
AI and mental health, AI and ethics, empathy, ethical complexities of modern science. The New York Times, KQED, PBS, ABC News
Professor of psychology
Sleep, sleep disorders and mental illness, cognitive behavioral therapy, community mental health. UC Berkeley News, The New York Times, CNN, NPR
Professor emerita of food, nutrition and population health
Pediatric obesity, cardiovascular risk, health disparities, beverage taxation and public policy. UC Berkeley News, CNN, KQED
Professor of environmental science, policy and management
Air pollution in marginalized communities, long-term health effects of wildfires. UC Berkeley News, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times. Speaker of Spanish and English.
Professor of law and bioethics
Constitutional law, policing and police use of force, bioethics, race and inequality in law and medicine, legacy of eugenics. School of Public Health, Los Angeles Times, LA Review of Books
Associate professor of health policy and management
Intersection of machine learning and health, AI and algorithms in health care. UC Berkeley News, Scientific American, The Wall Street Journal, NBC News, KJZZ, Freakonomics
Professor emeritus of public health
Infectious diseases, vaccines, epidemiology, public health, federal and state health authority. San Francisco Chronicle, CNBC, The Guardian
Assistant professor of infectious diseases and vaccinology
Molecular parasitology, mosquito vector biology in malaria infection. School of Public Health
Professor of health policy and management
Organizational behavior, performance management and racial and ethnic disparities in health care. School of Public Health
Clinical professor emeritus of public health
Vaccines, infectious diseases, epidemiology, public health. The Mercury News, KQED, CNBC
Director of the Labor Occupational Health Program
Immigrant workers’ health and safety, developing strategies to improve working conditions.
Assistant research professor of community health sciences
Physical activity in public schools, Presidential Fitness Test, youth health disparities, school food, nutrition and ultra-processed foods. KQED, Outside, NPR, Axios
Assistant professor of infectious diseases and vaccinology
Ebola, disease transmission, pathogens with pandemic potential, machine learning for epidemiological modeling, health equity. School of Public Health
