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Tomas Aragón

Assistant adjunct professor of epidemiology

Public health, epidemiology, health equity, health data science

John Balmes, M.D.

Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and director of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health

jbalmes@ucsf.edu

Air pollution, respiratory and cardiovascular health, exposure to pesticides, exposure to psychosocial stress

Helen Halpin

Professor of health policy

Area of expertise: national health care policy, particularly insurance coverage, Medicare and managed care.

S. Katharine Hammond

Professor of environmental health sciences

Expertise: occupational exposure to solvents, fumes and lead.

Area of expertise: clinical science, behavioral and emotional disorders of childhood and adolescence, ADHD, reactions to stress, assessment of disorders and knowing what's a "normal" reaction vs. an underlying disorder.

Sean Holmes

Chancellor's Professor in the UC Berkeley Division of Society and Environment, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management

sethmholmes@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Migrant farmworkers' health and health care, health care inequities, farmworker rights.
Spanish-speaking

William Jagust, M.D.

Professor of public health

jagust@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Aging brain, dementia, neuroimaging.

Marlon Maus

Adjunct professor of public health, director of the doctorate in public health program

Areas of expertise: Blindness and public health, physical activity and health
Spanish-speaking

Thomas E. Mckone

Professor environmental health sciences

Areas of expertise: risk assessment methods, health tracking, mass transfer at environmental and human/environment boundaries.

Rachel Morello-Frosch

Professor of public health

Areas of expertise: Environmental health, climate change, wildfires, environmental chemicals, environmental justice
Spanish-speaking

Mark Nicas

Adjunct professor of environmental health sciences, director of the Industrial Hygiene Program

Areas of expertise: microbial exposure and risk assessment, chemical toxicant exposure, risk modeling of infection by airborne pathogens.

Malcolm Potts

Professor of public health and family planning

Family planning, reproductive health, public health, abortion, AIDS prevention, biological origins of human warfare, circumcision

Arthur Reingold

Professor of public health

Epidemiology, pandemics, opportunistic infections in AIDS patients, interrelationship between tuberculosis and AIDS in developing countries.

Lee W. Riley

Professor of epidemiology and infectious diseases in the School of Public Health

Area of expertise: infectious diseases, drug resistance.

Julia Schaletzky

Executive Director, Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases (CEND) and Immunotherapy and Vaccine Research Institute (IVRI)

Drug discovery, therapeutics, diagnostics, robotic high-throughput screening, biotech, global health.

John Swartzberg

Clinical professor of public health

Infectious diseases, vaccinology, public health, healthcare, epidemiology

Ira Tager

Professor of epidemiology

Areas of expertise: aging, public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, maternal and child health, environmental health sciences.

Matthew Walker

Professor of psychology and neuroscience

mpwalker@berkeley.edu

Expertise: Sleep deprivation, impact of sleep on human health, cognition, behavior, neurodegeneration.

David E. Winickoff

Associate professor of bioethics and society

Areas of expertise: interaction of science and politics in the governance of health and the environment, with a particular focus on biotechnology and the law.