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Spring 2015

Connect F Solve F Share Global connections and local solutions

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Spring 2015 The Magazine for Alumni and Friends

FEATURES

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Strength and solutions in numbers

A multi-country consortium of policy makers, community stake­ holders, and scientists—including School of Public Health biostatisticians—is working to stop the spread of HIV in Africa and build community health. The study includes 32 communities in Uganda and Kenya. The results will inform worldwide debates about the economic, educational, and social benefits of community-based health care strategies and the global effort to end AIDS.

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Team climate change

Whether they’re addressing indoor cookstove pollution in India or working with government officials in California to plan healthy cities, a small group of School of Public Health faculty, students, and alumni are having a large impact on climate change.

14 Looking for the roots of risk

How does adversity affect adolescent behavior and biology? A study among Latino children in California’s agricultural Salinas Valley investigates how stress influences risk-taking behavior and pubertal development. In urban Santiago, Chile, a related study asks similar questions.

20 ALUMNA SPOTLIGHT | Sarah Krevans

Sutter Health’s next CEO lives what she learned

22 STUDENT SPOTLIGHT | J.T. Lane

For a Louisiana health official, learning never ends

24 STUDENT SPOTLIGHT | Muska Fazilat

An Afghan woman builds toward a sea change

DEPARTMENTS

26 Partners in Public Health 37 Around the School 43 Alumni Notes 48 In Memoriam

DEAN

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Dean’s Message

Connections for Health, Locally and Globally A year ago we initiated a collaborative strategic planning process to define a vision for our School of Public Health. We built on our many existing strengths while identifying ways our education could be even more innovative, our research more impactful, and our community partnerships could be deepened and strengthened.

The result was a plan that reaffirms many of our values, and reshapes others. If you haven’t yet seen the plan, I encourage you to visit sph.berkeley.edu/strategy. This is a living document that will continue to evolve as we begin the hard work of implementation.

In this issue of Berkeley Health, we are featuring some of the collaborative, far-reaching work our faculty, researchers, students, and alumni are already doing—locally and globally—that aligns with the School’s mission and values outlined in our strategic plan.

For example, associate professor Julianna Deardorff’s investigation into how early-life experiences can influence puberty and risky behaviors among adolescents in Salinas Valley has led her to develop a partnership with Camila Corvalán, a physician and epidemiologist at the University of Chile’s Institute for Nutrition and Food Technology. By sharing data from cohorts in Salinas Valley and Santiago, they realized they could widen the scope of their research and ask and answer more questions about pubertal development.

In the area of public health and climate change, we have faculty members working in India and at home in California. Our graduates have fanned out across the climate change landscape, taking the lessons learned here and applying them in myriad venues. David Pennise PhD ’03 co-founded a company that tests cookstoves in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Beth Altshuler MCP, MPH ’10 leads a practice that is developing a climate action plan for the City of Coachella in California’s Riverside County.

We also have researchers engaged in broad academic collaborations that are working to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS. In a great example of group science, some of our biostatisticians have joined forces with UCSF and Makerere University in Uganda as part of a consortium that proposes to stop the spread of HIV through greatly expanded treatment in entire communities. Closer to home, associate professor Coco Auerswald is working with the mayor’s office in San Francisco on a pilot project looking at structural interventions to decrease HIV risk, particularly among homeless youth.

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, the lines between local and global concerns have become fundamentally blurred. As you will read in this issue, our new vision—Healthy People, Locally and Globally—builds on our past accomplishments and challenges us to be prepared for the future.

Sincerely,

Stefano M. Bertozzi MD, PhD Dean and Professor of Health Policy and Management

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SEARCH channels the power of group science and community engagement to guide a global effort to end AIDS

BY LINDA ANDERBERG | Now approaching its 35th year, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has already claimed 39 million lives. An estimated 30 million people are currently living with HIV worldwide, more than two-thirds of them in Africa. But 2015 looks to be a year of change, opportunity, and challenge for the global AIDS response effort. On the treatment front, recent results from the Temprano clinical trial, a seven-year study in Côte d’Ivoire, showed that immediate treatment dramatically decreases the risk of severe illness in persons with HIV infection. HIV treatment has

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also been shown in randomized trials to have a secondary benefit of reducing transmission from an HIV-positive person to an uninfected sexual partner by as much as 96 percent.

As scientific knowledge about best treatment and prevention practices continue to expand, an end to the epidemic may be within reach. One of the major challenges is a question of scale and resource allocation. What do the prevention and treatment strategies look like in actual communities, where best practices quickly run up against the challenges of stigma, practicalities of resource-poor environments, and the general messiness of human living?

A broad consortium with the appropriate acronym SEARCH is already seeking answers to these questions. Sustainable East Africa Research in Community Health is a collaboration between U.S. and African universities, government organizations, and community stakeholders that proposes to stop the spread of HIV in Africa and then inform the global effort to end AIDS.

“SEARCH will be able to inform how to do it, how much it costs, and how much of an impact it can have. That’s the sort of information really needed to get an international response to stop AIDS.” The SEARCH study includes 32 communities of roughly 10,000 persons each, in Uganda and Kenya, the largest cohort of current HIV studies in Africa. The consortium itself is also numerous and broad. Led by Dr. Diane Havlir, professor of medicine at UCSF, and Dr. Moses Kamya, professor and chair of the Department of Medicine at Makerere University (MU) in Kampala, Uganda, the project includes investigators from UCSF, MU, UC Berkeley, the Kenya Medical Research Institute, and the Infectious Disease Research Collaboration. The NIH, PEPFAR, World Bank, WHO, UNAIDS, and Gilead are all sponsors of the study.

And external advisory boards in Kenya and Uganda include the ministries of health, community members and leaders, HIV care organizations, the private sector, and the ministries of finance.

“This is a great example of group science—no one scientist or one individual could tackle the SEARCH project alone,” says Havlir. “We needed to establish a cooperative group and include the communities themselves from the very beginning, and every step of the way.”

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Advances in science and policy point to a new model for care At its core, the SEARCH Consortium is evaluating a “test and treat” strategy, which posits that HIV/AIDS can be eliminated if all adults are tested regularly and all infected persons are put on antiretroviral therapy (ART)—regardless of the level of the virus in their bloodstream. There have been some challenges and concerns surrounding earlier treatment of HIV, including drug resistance, long-term toxicity of medications, and cost of treatment.

“In earlier days, there were more side effects and the drugs were harder to take and required more frequent and exact dosing to avoid developing resistance,” says Maya Petersen PhD ’07, assistant professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and study statistician in the SEARCH Consortium. “There was a worry that, if you started people too early when they feel fine and seem to be healthy, that you could end up doing more harm to them through toxicity or wiping out their drug options.”

But, with treatment options expanding and the science of HIV replication advancing, policy is shifting in favor of earlier treatment. In October 2014, UNAIDS launched a 90-90-90 campaign, with the ultimate goal of ending transmission of AIDS by 2030. The 90-90-90 goals mean that 90 percent of all people living with HIV know their diagnosis; 90 percent of those people are receiving antiretroviral treatment; and 90 percent of those on HIV treatment will have an undetectable viral load.

“When the study started, test and treat wasn’t global policy,” says Petersen. “But increasingly, international consensus is building in favor of this approach, which is great. SEARCH will be able to inform how to do it, how much it costs, and how much of an impact it can have. That’s the sort of information really needed to get an international response to stop AIDS.”

Africa’s double burden Between HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, cholera, rotavirus, and others—infectious diseases are still the number-one killer in Africa, especially of children. But the burden of chronic disease in Africa is on the rise. In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) projects that, between 2010 and 2020, the continent will experience the largest increase in death rates from cardiovascular disease, cancer, respiratory disease, and diabetes. The age-specific mortality rates from chronic diseases as a whole are actually higher in sub-Saharan Africa than in virtually all other regions of the world, in both men and women.

What to do when faced with this “double burden” of disease? Big, complex problems require bold, scalable solutions.

Community health campaigns are the cornerstone of SEARCH activities.

Each community’s leaders are actively involved in all aspects of mobilization, planning, and execution of the campaigns. The health campaigns are set up in locations for easy access to the community, such as in Rubirizi, Uganda (above) or the beach in this fishing village in Suba district in Kenya (below).

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Strength and solutions in numbers SEARCH census workers had to travel across some rough terrain in Mbarara district, Uganda, in order to enumerate all community members.

The SEARCH Consortium delivers both. Its vision does not end with HIV/AIDS. The study intervention is designed to improve the entire continuum of care, to address not just HIV, but other infectious and chronic diseases as well, including malaria, tuberculosis, hypertension, and diabetes.

“We’re saying, okay, if we’re going to tackle HIV, we really need to be doing this within a broader framework of public health and economic development,” says Petersen. “We are integrating HIV testing and care with other chronic disease service, diagnosis, and ultimately other chronic disease care as well. There is a great need for that in these communities.”

Big science with a human face Beginning in 2011, the SEARCH consortium ran a pilot program involving a community in rural Uganda, and showed a promising drop in population-wide levels of HIV detectable in the blood of infected individuals, an indirect measure of the potential for new HIV infections in a community. The scaled-up study—involving more than 320,000 individuals in Kenya and Uganda—got underway in 2013. The goal is to regularly test each community in its entirety for HIV, and quickly put all HIV-positive persons on treatment to suppress viral replication, both improving their own health and

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dramatically reducing the chance that they transmit HIV to others. A key component of this strategy is the community health campaigns, which include HIV screening, but also other health screenings. Children get vitamins and deworming medications. In some communities, there’s even a raffle for the adults and small prizes for each of the children.

“We asked the communities, ‘What would you like to see?’”

Havlir says about designing the health campaigns. “A community said to us, we’d like to know about hypertension and we’d like to know about diabetes. So we included services to check blood pressure and blood glucose, because that made good public health sense and because it was important to the community.”

Including a broad array of health screenings has multiple benefits to the project.

“It’s really designed as a health fair, not an HIV fair,” says Petersen. “The idea is both to destigmatize HIV in these communities and to recognize that it is only one of many health problems faced in these communities, and that these problems are best addressed synergistically.”

SEARCH convenes a health campaign in all 32 communities at baseline and after three and five years of follow-up. In the

intervention communities, campaigns will be held annually, together with more frequent testing of key high-risk populations. Community members who test positive for HIV will get counseling and an appointment linked to care and to begin receiving ART immediately using a streamlined and patient-centered care model. Control communities will receive the current standard of care, which is continually evolving.

While the idea behind the intervention—comprehensive testing and streamlined treatment as early as possible—is relatively straightforward, the organization, implementation, and analysis of a study on such a broad scale is almost overwhelmingly complex.

“When people talk about big science, this is big science,” says Petersen. “There’s no way that this project could be done without such a broad consortium. I’ve certainly never had an experience like this ever; it’s a phenomenal experience.”

Design and analysis is what UC Berkeley has been bringing to the UCSF–MU-led project, and from the very beginning.

In addition to Petersen, the Berkeley biostatistics team includes Professor Mark van der Laan and PhD student Laura Balzer.

“We needed people who could tackle a really challenging statistical and methodological project, and Maya, Mark, and Laura are those people,” says Havlir. “We wanted to reach out to people who are developing new, cuttingedge methods.”

The UC Berkeley biostatistics team has been instrumental in helping to design the study in order to ask the best questions, develop the best tools, and achieve the best analysis and outcomes.

“A more traditional model of working with statisticians might be that you get a bit of consulting here about power and a bit of consulting there about analysis,” says Petersen.

“I strongly believe that to do really transformative research, you need committed high-level thinking about these design and statistical issues early on. It has to be in full integration with the rest of the study team, it can’t be done in isolation; you don’t have the same results.”

‘Pop-up’ statistical problems present a challenge

randomization. At baseline, the 32 communities were matched into 16 pairs based on key health, geographic, and ethnographic variables. One member of each pair has been randomly selected to receive the intervention, while the other the control. Balzer, who is completing her thesis on cluster randomized trials, considers this randomization at the community level, as opposed to the individual level, to be a stimulating challenge.

“It could be that HIV incidence and transmission is totally different between an agricultural community in Eastern Uganda and a fishing village in Kenya.”

“It makes the analysis a lot more fun and complicated,” she says. “As we know, people are messy and not independent from each other. We all interact and impact each other’s health in different ways. So we are doing our best to take the potential dependencies into account with the analysis.”

There are a lot of other factors the biostatisticians must take into account, including population mixing and migration over time, and how the changing WHO guidelines on treatment might affect their control groups. “We would never say, ‘Well, the World Health Organization says you should treat earlier, but you’re in our trial, so you shouldn’t,’ ” says Petersen.

“HIV policy is rapidly evolving, which is fantastic for public health,” agrees Balzer. “From a statistics standpoint, treatment guidelines are continually changing, and we have to anticipate these changes in the study design and analysis plan.”

They’ve also considered how to account for the heterogeneity across study sites. “It could be that HIV incidence and transmission is totally different between an agricultural community in Eastern Uganda and a fishing village in Kenya,” says Balzer. “How do we best capture the intervention’s impact and its implementation in all the communities?

It’s been an exciting challenge.”

In addition to tracking new HIV infections, SEARCH is also looking at the health, economic, and education outcomes, including mortality, mother-to-child HIV transmission, AIDS, tuberculosis, HIV drug resistance, adult and child employment levels, asset holdings, school attendance levels, programmatic costs, and cost effectiveness of the intervention.

Balzer has been particularly interested in the pair matching of the communities, and what it can bring to the study in terms of strength of analysis and acceptability to the communities themselves and the broader health community. In SEARCH, the communities have been matched on baseline predictors of HIV incidence (the primary outcome).

SEARCH is a cluster randomized community trial, meaning the community, not the individual, is the unit of

“In most settings, pair-matching can really help you gain more power to detect an intervention effect,” she says. “It

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Can housing reduce HIV-related risk behaviors among San Francisco homeless youth?

In 2013, San Francisco’s first city-funded Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) building for youth opened at 5th and Harrison Streets. Run by Community Housing Partnership (CHP), a nonprofit organization that provides supportive housing to formerly homeless individuals and families, the 5th Street Apartments offer 44 youths a place to live. They range in age from 18 to 25 years and used to be homeless or at high risk of being homeless. Many are young adults who have aged out of the foster care system.

In a city where youth homelessness is a persistent challenge, the 5th Street Apartments, also known as 5H, offer a chance to conduct a unique natural experiment. When the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing Opportunity, Partnerships & Engagement (HOPE) approached Colette (Coco) Auerswald MD, MS ’89, about leading a collaborative longitudinal evaluation of youth in PSH in San Francisco, she knew it would be a great opportunity to inform policy and solutions to youth homelessness locally and statewide.

“PSH represents a structural change that provides housing as a given first, rather than a traditional, graduated approach,” says Auerswald, an associate professor in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program, who has been conducting collaborative research among homeless youth for more than 15 years. “While it has been shown to be remarkably successful among chronically homeless adults, the effects and appropriateness for young adults remain unknown.”

The 5H Project—a collaboration of San Francisco city government agencies, CHP and other housing and homelessness providers, and UC Berkeley School of Public Health researchers—proposes to collect data to fill in the these

gaps in the existing research. The project is evaluating whether housing provision reduces HIV and substance use risk behaviors and, more broadly, whether PSH for youth has the potential to have enduring impacts on shaping a positive health trajectory through life.

Currently operating on pilot funds from the UC BerkeleyUCSF Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars program, the 5H Project has already enrolled 37 of the 44 5H residents.

“We’re testing participants for HIV, Hepatitis C, and other STIs, as well as assessing markers of stress and cellular aging,” says Jess Lin MPH ’10, who is coordinating the project.

“We’re also collecting survey and in-depth ethnographic data about topics including their HIV risk behavior, overall health, social support, and economic and educational challenges and opportunities.”

In addition to the data collection, the project has a collaborative relationship with the staff and youth residents, and hosts monthly community-building events open to all residents.

“The 5H project is an effort of great collective will, longstanding partnerships, and complementary skills,” says Auerswald, “but it’s currently strung together on a shoestring.”

Auerswald and Lin are in the process of seeking more funding, which would allow the pilot project to expand into a five-year study encompassing residents of more recently opened PSH buildings and a set of comparison youth not residing in PSH. This rigorous evaluation could inform and fundamentally shift policy and programs for homeless youth.

can also help protect the validity of your study and increase the understandability of your study.”

based approach. We are trying to define the key elements of that approach.’”

In September 2014, Balzer traveled to Uganda for two weeks to see the SEARCH study in action. She is including trial design and analysis strategies in her thesis, and also in a paper published in Statistics in Medicine.

SEARCH is designed to return results that are directly relevant to policy makers, in terms of limited resources and return on investment. It’s also designed to be responsive to the input and needs of each community. It has the potential to be a landmark effort that brings a wealth of information on strategies around delivering health care, not just for HIV, but for many other diseases.

“It was great to meet and work with our in-country partners,” she says, “and also a learning experience to see the variables in our data sets in person—what this all really means and whom it really impacts.”

Collaboration keeps it all together “People will ask me, ‘Do you really think you can end the AIDS epidemic?’” says Havlir. “And my answer is ‘Yes, we can start shutting down the epidemic if we take a community-

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“This study asks, ‘Is it time to move to an aggressive population-based treatment/prevention strategy in this part of the world?’ ” says Petersen. “And if it is, how do we do it, and how do we do it most efficiently and effectively? The goal is that we come out of this five-year project and say, ‘Wow, we can shut down HIV, and this is how we do it. Let’s do it!’ ”

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Climate Change Moving beyond the research

BY STEPHEN ROBITAILLE | In many ways, the study of climate change is a search for impacts—a welter of them. Rises in air temperature spur wildlife migrations and the extreme heat spells trouble for medically fragile city dwellers. An open-fire cookstove in a hut in Malawi pollutes the air indoors for those who live there. Meanwhile, the estimated 3 billion such stoves in use worldwide make substantial daily contributions to global climate change.

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Team Climate Change

The School of Public Health has had an oversized impact on both the science and the policy work of climate change. The School’s world-class research has spawned a broad community of graduates, who can be found around the world at the front lines of climate change policy work—including at the World Health Organization and the White House.

“It’s mind-boggling what we’ve done,” says associate adjunct professor Amy Kyle PhD ’96, MPH ’92, a research scientist in the School’s Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Division.

“Out of this little group of faculty, grads, and affiliates, we’re implementing so much. There is an extraordinary reach with this program. Our work is going to make the economy better, the environment better, and make life better for our children.”

But despite his more than three decades in the field, Smith still itches to make more concrete improvements in his chosen field.

He cites the example of a woman in India, who was a subject in his first study, in 1981, of cookstoves and household air pollution. The woman was the first person in the world to wear a pollution monitor in her dwelling, while she cooked on a traditional cookstove. Smith keeps a photo of her—with the monitor around her waist—in his office.

Smith revisited the village last summer and looked the woman up. She remembered Smith and the study in which she had participated, and the two posed for photos together.

But Smith saw the woman still cooking on the same pollution-spewing cookstove as when he met her 33 years ago.

“ We’ve put the problem of household air pollution on the map, and it is recognized as one of most important public health issues in the world.”

In the early 1980s, Kirk R. Smith PhD ’77, MPH ’72 was a newly minted professor initiating the first studies anywhere on indoor air pollution in the developing world. His research began with the documentation of indoor air pollution in villages from solid-fuel cookstoves, which burn fuel such as wood or coal, and the health impacts on those who use them. Today Smith is widely acknowledged as a world leader on household air pollution and its impacts on health and climate change.

Clearing the air worldwide Smith, along with other researchers and graduate students, documented health and social impacts like chronic lung disease, and the dangers facing women during fuel collection trips. They also developed tools for measuring pollution levels and rating cookstoves to help identify designs that emit less pollution.

Through the 1990s, as climate change assumed greater importance in the scientific world, Smith’s work grew to include documentation of cookstoves’ worldwide contribution to climate change.

Along the way, Smith and his colleagues developed the concept of “co-benefits,” the accepted term today for anti-pollution efforts that deliver both health and climate outcomes—a reduction in smoke from cookstoves, for example, improves health as it boosts overall outdoor air quality and reduces the impacts of climate change.

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“We’ve put the problem of household air pollution on the map, and it is recognized as one of most important public health issues in the world. It is sobering, however, that poor water and sanitation were recognized as a problem in the late 1800s, but still pose serious health risks in poor countries.

We don’t want to be 120 years from now and have still not done anything about household air pollution,” says Smith. “At this point, I’m not so interested in finding yet another disease associated with it—the question is, what do we do about it that works?”

With that question in mind, Smith has been contributing to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports for many years. The IPCC is the leading international body for the assessment of climate change, operating under the auspices of the United Nations. It does not conduct research or monitor climate change data, but focuses on review and assessment of the most recent scientific, technical, and socio­economic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change.

“It’s very complicated business, climate change,” says Smith.

“The IPCC reports are the mother of all assessments; they are the most comprehensive review available anywhere. They are signed off on by 190 governments, ranging from Saudi Arabia to Cuba, with 800 scientists directly contributing— and that’s a remarkable achievement for humanity.”

Smith is a convening lead author for the health chapter of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report, which was published in October 2014. In 2007, he was a contributing author to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC. The IPCC shared that year’s Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore.

Above: In 2014, Kirk Smith reunites with Dwaliben Solanki, a participant in Smith’s 1981 cookstove study in India.

Right: In 1981, Solanki wears a pollution monitor in her dwelling while cooking.

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Professor Kirk Smith with village children at the time of his 1981 cookstove study in India

Collaboration for California Bringing a public health perspective to the study of climate change is a signature contribution of the School, both in the laboratory and in the offices and auditoriums of public policy.

Pulmonologist and professor in residence Dr. John R. Balmes came to Berkeley’s Center for Occupational and Environmental Health in 2000 as an interim administrator, from UC San Francisco, where he still serves as chief of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital.

“I was recruited here to work part-time in an administrative role,” says Balmes, “but my colleagues looked at my work and said, ‘Oh, look—we have a pulmonary guy.’ It’s wonderful to be at Berkeley, because the campus has such strong programs in so many different areas. I’m collaborating with physical scientists, environmental engineers, and other health scientists—it’s that kind of cross-disciplinary collaborative research that I really enjoy here.”

Fourteen years later, Balmes still splits his time between Berkeley and UCSF. He works with Smith on the pulmonary impacts of indoor cookstove smoke, researches people’s vulnerability to illness from extreme heat days, and documents the health impacts of outdoor air pollution. He also helped the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention develop an environmental health network for tracking climate-changerelated illnesses.

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As a member of the state Air Resources Board, which regulates air quality, Balmes works to reduce air pollution in California. A key component of his role there, says Balmes, is implementing the mandate of AB 32, the state’s landmark climate change reduction law, which calls for a lowering of California’s climate change pollutant load to 1990 levels.

“It’s been very rewarding to serve on the Air Board,” says Balmes, a member since 2008. “While I’ve long been a strong advocate for stricter air quality standards, now I actually contribute to how the work gets done. I’ve been able to bring the public health perspective to the climate change side, and I think I’ve influenced them a bit. It’s fun to be working on the governing board of the most progressive climate change mitigation agency in the world.”

In addition to Balmes’s efforts, the School contributed research in support of AB 32, and faculty and graduate students have worked on its regulations and a broad range of follow-up legislation. This includes SB 535, a statute that provides for allocation of 25 percent of all revenues from auctions of emission credits in the cap-and-trade program to go to communities most affected by cumulative impacts of such emissons. Kyle and other School researchers worked on ways to measure and address cumulative impacts, in conjunction with many others.

School faculty and graduate students also helped develop CalEnviroScreen, an online assessment tool with which the state Environmental Protection Agency identifies the communities eligible for reimbursement under SB 535.

Cross-generational connections The School’s graduates have fanned out across the climate change landscape, taking the lessons learned here and applying them in myriad venues, both local and global.

Beth Altshuler MCP, MPH ’10, a former student of Kyle’s, had an epiphany when Kyle laid out the connections between epidemiological studies and the public policies that eventually sprang from them. Today Altshuler heads the public health practice at Raimi + Associates (R+A), a Berkeley-based urban planning firm that focuses on community health, sustainable neighborhoods, and social equity.

The firm infuses public health measures into civic planning processes. Altshuler’s clients include public sector agencies, such as cities, counties, and regional planning agencies. She works to ensure that clients’ plans include open space for play and exercise, and access to public transit, which both improves public health and lowers new neighborhoods’ carbon footprint.

“We try to do two key things. First, we try to foster transparency and better two-way communications between residents and government, making policy making more open and responsive to the community,” says Altshuler. “Second, we work to institutionalize health-oriented policies, as an important consideration for public policy overall.”

Altshuler and the R+A team are currently managing development of a general plan and climate action plan for the City of Coachella in California’s Riverside County. The work includes documentation of greenhouse gas production from city activities, development of emission reduction strategies, and calculations of the community health benefits of these plans. Altshuler meets regularly with the city’s Wellness Advisory Committee, and delivers progress reports at public meetings.

“I am a translator among health departments, planners, and community members,” says Altshuler. “I talk to a wide range of stakeholders, and this communication brings public health concepts into public policy arenas.”

Another alumna working to protect the environment and save lives is Sumi Mehta PhD ’02. A former student of Smith’s, she collaborated with him on the first estimates of the global burden of disease from household air pollution. She now serves as director of programs for the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, an international nonprofit that works to improve cookstove technologies and fuels.

The organization was founded as a direct result of a visit by Smith to representatives of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and White House officials to lobby on the issue

of cookstoves and their connection to public health and climate change. Impressed, Clinton decided to act—and through the United Nations Foundation she helped found the Global Alliance.

David Pennise PhD ’03, another former student of Smith’s, is a co-founder and technical director of Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, which provides field-based testing, monitoring, and evaluation of cookstoves and different types of fuels in developing nations. It operates throughout Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

Among its tools is the UCB Particle and Temperature Sensor, a portable, battery-operated data-logging particle monitor for indoor air pollution, which downloads its data directly into computers. The sensor and its software were developed by the Kirk Smith Research Group.

“Our graduates are all very capable people. As a mentor, I’ve taken advantage of their innate skills and channeled them into the work that we are all doing today.”

“We want to help create a clean, healthy, and sustainable world. It’s great that we have a chance to use science and heart to try to do good things for the world,” says Pennise.

“And when you look at the issue of indoor air pollution and cookstoves, you have to start with Kirk Smith, the earliest and biggest of the folks documenting the problem.”

Smith, for his part, gives the credit to students and colleagues.

“Our graduates are all very capable people. As a mentor, I’ve taken advantage of their innate skills and channeled them into the work that we are all doing today,” says Smith.

“This is what graduate education is supposed to be, putting students on the frontier of new research, and jumping into the deep end of the pool. We are a small school, but we have great colleagues, and we are doing good things.”

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Julianna Deardorff is leading a project to better understand how stress affects the biological and behavioral development of Latino youth in Salinas.

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Looking for the roots of risk

BY STEPHEN ORNES | On a bright day in the first week of August, Julianna Deardorff escorted five Chilean scientists from Berkeley to The Farm, an agricultural center and farm in Salinas, California, about 100 miles south of the Bay Area. The Farm has been in the same family for four generations; the brothers who run it now have made strides in the past few decades to transition to organic farming. In the fields, the researchers found strawberries, one of 30 diverse crops grown in the sweeping fields. Others include corn, pumpkins, tomatoes—and, like most farms in the sprawling Salinas valley, lettuce.

The researchers were there to study growth—not of the verdant plants that thrive in the exceptional climate and nutrient-rich soil of the valley, but of the children who live in this agricultural community. Deardorff, an associate professor in the School of Public Health’s Maternal and Child Health program, wants to understand how early-life experiences can influence puberty and risky behaviors among adolescents.

The bulk of her research focuses on how those pressures affect Latino populations. Recent research suggests that girls and boys of all ethnicities, and Latinas/Latinos in particular, are going through puberty at earlier and earlier ages around the world. Researchers often point to increasing rates of obesity to explain the trend, but Deardorff, like many other investigators, suspects that such an explanation is only part of the story.

In 2014 she launched a new research project, backed by a $2.5 million grant from the National Institute on Drug

Abuse, to study how social adversity affects the biological development—including puberty—and risk-taking behavior of more than 600 Latino children who live in the farm-centered community of Salinas. Together with their parents, the youths have been participating in a longitudinal study called CHAMACOS that began before most of them were born.

Deardorff says the CHAMACOS population is particularly vulnerable: Latino adolescents are more likely to engage in unprotected sex and use substances at younger ages than their peers of other ethnic groups. In the United States, Latino adolescents have the highest rate of teen pregnancy among the major racial and ethnic groups. They’re also at risk for HIV/AIDS. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Latinos accounted for more than 20 percent of new HIV cases in 2010, most of which occurred in people younger than 25. In the same year, the HIV infection rate for Latinos was more than triple the rate for whites.

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And that disparity, says Deardorff, represents a serious public health issue for the present and future generations of Latino youth.

The “kids” in Salinas CHAMACOS stands for the Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas; in Mexican Spanish, the word chamacos means “kids.”

The study was the brainchild of Brenda Eskenazi, professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health, who launched it in 1999 to better understand how environmental factors like chemicals—including the pesticides used to treat the fields where workers pick crops for eight to ten hours a day—affect the health of these children. Designed as a partnership between the families and the researchers, the study engaged participants from many different parts of the farming community, from growers to farmworkers.

Now, those children, many of whom have been studied since they were in utero, are becoming teens. They’re entering the age where they may or may not choose to engage in risky behaviors like sexual activity and substance abuse.

And they’re doing it in Salinas, a town with high rates of teen violence.

samples from the participants. They’re studying data on Tanner staging, a tool that gives researchers a way to assess physical development and pubertal progression, collected at early ages by Eskenazi and her team and continued into adolescence through Deardorff’s grant. In addition, Deardorff is incorporating information about cultural factors and pressures—from parents, families, social circles, and elsewhere—that can influence how and whether stress affects the youths.

Other research has failed to examine the many cultural and contextual strengths within Latino families and communities that can offset risk. Deardorff, however, wants to be able to see the whole picture of how stress unfolds in the lives of the teens. By pinpointing positive and negative effects on development, researchers might design strategies to lower the incidence of risky behavior.

“We’re interested in high-risk sexual behavior, and the interplay between that and substance use to predict HIV risk,” she says. “We’re also studying how puberty unfolds in this population, and how stress gets under the skin to accelerate pubertal development and lead to risky behaviors.”

Thanks to a $30,000 grant from UC Berkeley’s Center for Latin American Studies, Deardorff’s research has also bloomed into an international collaboration with those scientists she took tromping through the strawberry fields last August. She and Camila Corvalán, a physician and epidemiologist at the University of Chile’s Institute for Nutrition and Food Technology, in Santiago, were awarded the funds from Chile’s National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research to work together and share data. Corvalán is part of an interdisciplinary team studying nutrition in a large cohort of youths in urban Santiago. Though the two research populations are dramatically different— the Santiago youths are younger and live in the inner city; the Salinas chamacos are older and live in a farming community—both researchers say that combining their research could yield new insights into both cohorts.

Corvalán and her colleagues visited Berkeley in August to compare notes and strategize their next steps.

“ It was clear to me that a lot of the sexual risk behaviors we were seeing—and also some of the substance abuse problems, and engagement in unhealthy relationships and interpersonal violence—directly related to stressful life events these teens were experiencing.”

“We have a lot of youths in Salinas,” says Kimberly Parra, field office coordinator for the CHAMACOS study. She works firsthand with the study population, collecting data on body weight, blood pressure, and height; administering neurological assessments; and collecting samples of blood, hair and urine. “There’s a very young population in this area, young people with nothing to do, and they get curious or bored.”

That’s where Deardorff’s research interests enter the field, so to speak. She and her collaborators have been analyzing cardiac responses to stress, as well as levels of stress hormones (like cortisol), puberty hormones, and other chemicals in

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Swimming upstream Deardorff, a clinical psychologist who trained at Arizona State University in Tempe, says the Salinas project represents the convergence of two streams of research interests: One coming from clinical experience, and the other from her research.

Salinas Valley, California

Until 2012, she worked as the sole psychologist at the New Generation Health Center, a reproductive health center for teens run by UCSF. The center functioned like a community clinic in the heart of San Francisco. Time after time, she saw young people engaged in risky behavior; the majority of the girls she counseled were sexually active. Most of the youths who visited the clinic were Latina or African American.

Many lived in unsafe neighborhoods where they witnessed violence, including gang activity, firsthand. Some came from immigrant families, where the children served as language interpreters for their families and witnessed discrimination against their parents.

have on a girl’s likelihood to engage in risky behavior. In a study published Dec. 1, 2005, in Pediatrics, for example, she and her coauthors studied the behavior of more than 600 girls aged 18-22 in Arizona and found that girls who went through puberty early were more likely than their peers to start drinking, and have sexual intercourse at an early age— which put them at higher risk for becoming teen moms. Their finding was in line with a growing body of evidence, from all over the world, that found the same connection. (More recent studies have found similar patterns in boys, linking early puberty to increased risk for substance abuse and, potentially, depression.)

“They had few role models who were doing what they wanted to accomplish, like going to college or waiting to have a family until after their education,” Deardorff says. All that turbulence took a toll on the young people who came into the clinic. “It was clear to me that a lot of the sexual risk behaviors we were seeing—and also some of the substance abuse problems, and engagement in unhealthy relationships and interpersonal violence—directly related to stressful life events these teens were experiencing,” she says of her experience at the UCSF clinic. “It was hard to disentangle where these behaviors started, and where to optimally intervene.”

Like many researchers, Deardorff suspected that the pressures that shaped these risky behaviors may have had even deeper roots. She joined a project, led by Lawrence Kushi at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research, called the Cohort study of Young Girls’ Nutrition, Environment and Transitions, or CYGNET. The researchers focused on environmental factors that may spur early puberty but also studied social stresses that may play an important role. Deardorff led a 2010 study, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, in which she and her CYGNET collaborators found that some girls were more likely to go through puberty early if they were raised without their biological fathers around.

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That work, in accordance with other previous studies, suggested that negative early life events could have ramifications that influenced not only when a child went through puberty, but also the risk behaviors that followed.

nutritional experts, pediatric endocrinologists, neighborhood researchers, community members—without all of these experts, there’s no way to look at the complexity of human life over time.”

“It felt like we were starting too late,” she says. “When we started to look upstream at factors influencing biological development, we found the same factors that were predicting risk behavior downstream.”

Salinas to Santiago

So, Deardorff headed upstream: She wanted to understand the impact of these early life stressors on the behavioral— and developmental—trajectories of children’s lives. She says she hadn’t spent much time researching the impact of the time between birth and five years old, much less stresses in utero.

The long-running CHAMACOS study gave her just such an opportunity. Eskenazi and her team had been collecting data on the 600 CHAMACOS participants for much of their lives, and Deardorff saw a way to extend that research in a new direction. But, she says, a project like hers would be impossible if she were going alone; to better understand the complex effects of stress requires investigators from a host of fields.

“It’s extremely important to recognize that none of this could happen if we weren’t working in a transdisciplinary manner,” she says. “We have psychologists, epidemiologists,

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In 2013, Deadorff traveled to Washington, D.C., for an NIHsponsored international consortium on puberty research.

She didn’t expect to return home with a new collaborator.

But that’s just what happened: At the consortium, Deardorff met Corvalán from the University of Chile. Corvalán and her collaborators have been following a cohort of about 1200 children living in Santiago since 2006.

“Our main aim is to understand how early life nutrition can have an impact on obesity and obesity-related disease in the context of a country like Chile, a country that has rapidly moved from high rates of undernutrition to high rates of obesity,” says Corvalán. According to the World Health Organization, the last few decades have seen dramatic changes in the country. Between 1960 and 2000, rates of malnutrition among children younger than six dropped from 37 percent to 2.9 percent, but at the same time obesity became more prevalent. Now 20 percent of four-year-old children are obese.

The project began as a simple investigation, says Corvalán, but over time it grew. Researchers from different fields joined the study, asking new questions about pubertal development that widened the scope of the research. One of these collaborators, epidemiologist Karin Michels at the Harvard School of Public Health, invited Corvalán to the consortium where she met Deardorff. The idea of the consortium was for researchers to compare their findings on early puberty.

“I met with Julie in one of these meetings and started to talk to her about our girls,” recalls Corvalán. And something clicked: “We realized we had tons of similar questions” about the factors that influence early puberty that they wanted to answer through research. They began to suspect that by integrating findings from both cohorts they could shed some light on those questions.

“We were floored by the similarities in terms of our data collection,” recalls Deardorff. The researchers also realized that both of their respective cohorts were approaching the teen years, when risky behavior sets in.

between two mountain ranges—the Gabilan and the Santa Lucia—the valley is known above all else for agriculture. The exceptional weather and nutrient-rich soil, together with the waters of the Salinas river, combine to form an area where crops flourish. The valley grows more than 80 percent of the salad greens consumed in the United States, along with half of the cauliflower and mushrooms and a quarter of the celery. The growing season lasts eight to ten months of the year. Not surprisingly, the area is often called the “salad bowl” of the United States.

“ We have psychologists, epidemiologists, nutritional experts, pediatric endocrinologists, neighborhood researchers, community members— without all of these experts, there’s no way to look at the complexity of human life over time.”

The collaboration moved forward with Corvalán visiting Berkeley for a week with four other researchers from Chile. They included an epidemiologist, a dietician, and two psychology professors from Santiago’s Catholic University who were interested in Deardorff’s measurements related to parental relationships and risk behavior.

“We were very interested in seeing some of the tests being carried out in the cohort,” says Corvalán.

In addition to spending two days in Salinas, the researchers mapped out their strategies for data collection and sharing.

They also visited the School of Public Health biorepository, where samples from CHAMACOS participants are included in the more than 150,000 stored biospecimens, which include blood, saliva, urine, teeth, and other tissues.

Nina Holland, an adjunct professor in the School of Public Health’s Environmental Health Science Division, runs the facility.

Then, in December 2014, Deardorff and her team of researchers from Berkeley headed to Santiago, to visit Corvalán’s project. Team members included Eskenazi, Parra, and Kim Harley PhD ’04, MPH ’98. Asa Bradman PhD ’97 visited Chile in May 2015 to continue the conversation about environmental exposures and human development and health.

Life in the Salad Bowl The Salinas Valley stretches about 90 miles from Castroville in the north to King City in the south, and beyond. Nestled

Fields of greens and vegetables stretch across the valley, from the base of the mountains to the city limits. The fields surround schools—the fences of which often carry signs warning of peligroso (dangerous) chemicals used in the fields.

Growing, tending, picking and packing all those crops takes a lot of hands, which is why the area also attracts migrant farmworkers. In the 1930s, people fleeing the disastrous conditions of the Dust Bowl in the Midwest made their way to the valley and worked in the fields alongside Filipino workers. By the 1970s, many of the farmworkers had come from Mexico and Central America, and by the 1990s people of Mexican origin made up more than half of the population of Salinas, the largest city in the valley.

It’s a community where people know where their food comes from, says Parra, in the Salinas office of CHAMACOS. Like the investigators who are studying the effects of stress and other factors on behavioral and biological development, the residents of Salinas think often about growth—and family.

Parra says she thinks Latino families have stuck with the CHAMACOS study over the years because it offers them some stability in their otherwise vulnerable, and potentially unstable, lives.

“They are invested in the project,” she says. “They come into our office and it’s like home. It’s one of the few places where they find consistency.”

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Alumna Spotlight | Sarah Krevans

Sutter Health’s next CEO lives what she learned

BY VIVIAN AUSLANDER | In her large, extended, physician-filled family, the assumption early on was that Sarah Krevans MBA, MPH ’84, would go to medical school. (Krevans’s father is Julius Krevans MD, chancellor emeritus of UCSF.) But after taking time off from college to work in what at the time were “probably the most underfunded and disenfranchised” sectors of health care—a nursing home, a psychiatric hospital, and home health care for Medicaid patients—she realized she needed to take a related but different path.

“I became very passionate about the terrible way the system was put together,” she says. “The biggest problem with U.S. health care was the structure of the system itself.” That, she concluded, was what she needed to address.

To learn more about health administration and policy, Krevans enrolled Sarah Krevans first in UC Berkeley’s business school and then in the School of Public Health, where she would be deeply influenced by “the emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach.”

Today, as the chief operating officer of Sacramento-based Sutter Health, one of the nation’s leading not-for-profit health care systems, Krevans engages colleagues in every discipline to improve care for patients in 100 communities throughout Northern California.

A 14-year veteran of Sutter (with many years at Kaiser Permanente before that), she became COO in January 2012, after serving as president of Sutter’s expansive Sacramento Sierra region, where her team was recognized for its innovations in improving clinical quality and access to care while also making health care more affordable for patients.

As COO, she has partnered with other team members to make a significant impact on how patients access care. For example, the number of patients using My Health Online— the network’s system that connects patients to their doctors and health records—has enjoyed exponential growth, making Sutter Health a leader nationally in the percentage of physicians and patients who are engaged electronically with each other.

Krevans credits Sutter Health’s retiring CEO Pat Fry and the system’s physician leaders, most particularly, Dr. Gordon Hunt Jr., senior vice president and chief medical officer, for quality improvements over the years that have routinely placed the system in the top decile nationally for excellence in patient care.

She oversees operations at Sutter’s 24 hospitals; five physician organizations; and extensive ambulatory care services, long-term care centers, home health and hospice services, and research facilities. To meet the challenge of federal health care reform and reimbursement reductions, she is leading Sutter’s efforts to cut administrative costs by $300 million. She also directs the system’s multi-billion-dollar capital projects, including seismic replacement hospitals like Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland.

She is proud that “the ability of our system to spread quality initiatives has improved greatly in the last several years.” For example, she cites Sutter Health’s campaign, in partnership with the March of Dimes, to improve maternal and infant health by educating caregivers and mothers-to-be about the risks of inducing early delivery of babies—a disturbing national trend—and the benefits of permitting pregnancies to go to full term (39 or 40 weeks). The campaign has reduced early elective deliveries in the Sutter Health network by 91 percent since 2010.

Sutter Health recently announced that Krevans has been tapped to fill the role of CEO beginning January 2016, making her the first woman to lead the organization.

In November 2013, Sutter Davis, a hospital with which Krevans has worked closely, became the first Northern California hospital to receive the Malcolm Baldrige National

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Quality Award, the nation’s highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improvement, and visionary leadership.

And, as part of federal health care reform, Sutter Health has received one of the largest innovation grants of its kind from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation to find better ways to care for patients who have advanced illnesses but are not eligible for hospice care. Preliminary results of the Advanced Illness Management (AIM) program, as it is called, are very promising: From July 2012 to December 2013, the program reduced hospitalizations, reduced days in intensive care, garnered high satisfaction ratings from patients, and saved government payers and commercial health plans an estimated $15 million.

“We’re really excited about AIM, its impact on the beneficiaries, and what it can mean from a policy perspective,” Krevans says.

Along with focusing on quality, Krevans and her team “have been working really hard on affordability,” she says, noting that providing high quality care while keeping costs down is especially challenging, given declining reimbursement from government payers and Sutter Health’s sizable commitment to charity care.

“Our hospitals take care of more MediCal patients in Northern California than anyone else,” she says. “That’s a very important part of who we are and what we do. Our ability to sustain this mission is very dependent not just on our generous philanthropic community but also on continuing to be attractive to insured patients. The focus on high quality is important for every patient. It’s a value within the organization, and, fortunately, it is becoming increasingly an external value,” she says.

To achieve clinical goals, Krevans turns to her “talented physician colleagues” and makes sure she has the right nursing leadership involved, along with other specialists. She emphasizes that acting in partnership is not only a “brand promise” to patients but also “an absolute must” in all aspects of her work for empowering everyone to perform “at the top of their license, their capability, their passion.”

she has managed to make a mark in her chosen field while successfully raising a family.

“I tell them they probably have more flexibility than they think, they have a long time to work, and they should learn to say ‘no’ occasionally,” she says. For her part, she aims to create an environment that supports people’s careers, “even when they need to make choices to make their personal life work for them.”

“ There’s a lot of tremendous talent in health care, and we have not translated that talent into great care for everyone in the United States.

That has to be the goal.”

For students starting out, she advises, “Health care is changing so much. Be open to getting experience, rather than focused on a particular title or a particular career path. Some of the titles I thought I wanted when I started in a particular company didn’t exist at the point where I would have been eligible for them! It’s great to have ambition, but let it be about the impact you want to have on the world and what you want to accomplish! You’ll end up with more opportunity.”

As for building a better structure for health care—her dream starting out and her continuing professional goal—Krevans says, “There’s a lot of tremendous talent in health care, and we have not translated that talent into great care for everyone in the United States. That has to be the goal. I find the visioning work going on now at our academic institutions like UC Berkeley really exciting. Any way we can broaden that conversation to bring together the incredible thinkers at the School of Public Health with people who are responsible for taking care of so much of Northern California has great potential for making a difference in how health care is provided in the future.”

The mother of three, Krevans, who was named Woman of the Year in 2011 by Northern California’s Women Healthcare Executives, often hears from young women wondering how

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Student Spotlight | J.T. Lane

For Louisiana health official, learning never ends

BY LINDA ANDERBERG | If you were to picture your idea of a typical Berkeley MPH student, someone like John Thomas “J.T.” Lane would probably not be the first— second, third, or fourth—person to come to mind. As assistant secretary for public health with the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH), he leads a large team responsible for improving the health and well-being of the entire state of Louisiana.

On the other hand, Lane is, in many ways, the quintessential student in the On-Campus/Online Professional Master of Public Health Degree Program. The program was designed to allow full-time professionals like Lane to continue their careers while continuing their education. In fact, it fit so well with Lane’s needs and goals that it was the only program he applied to.

“I researched several programs and quite a few allowed the flexibility to be working long distance, but this one just really fit the best,” he says. “It was really going to allow me to expand my knowledge and give me the new skills I wanted.

It’s a new model of learning, and I could tell everything was well thought out and carefully planned.”

It’s not surprising that something well thought out and carefully planned appeals to Lane, as that is clearly a hallmark of his approach to work and learning. As well, he sees no reason why these two endeavors can’t be perpetually combined.

“I’m a big believer in matching work experience with academic experience,” he says. “I operate from a standpoint that I will never stop learning. If I could, I would go to school forever. I love learning, but I like working because change is hard work; finding the right way to do it, to communicate it, and ensure you’re careful along the way…it’s fun for me.”

Even at age 19, Lane was working full-time with a business development firm in Texas while earning his bachelor’s degree in mass communications at Louisiana State University. “I might have had class Tuesday/Thursday, and I would fly out to Houston for Thursday night and work Friday, stay the weekend, work Monday, fly back Monday night, go to class Tuesday,” he illustrates.

Following a brief stint with Exxon Mobile, Lane returned to LSU as a staff member working in the Office of Research & Economic Development, promoting the efforts of the university and how they were contributing to the economy

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of the State of Louisiana. And he continued his education as a university employee, taking classes in English, pre-med, social work, and psychology.

“Somehow it was all a little too focused and it wasn’t quite capturing everything I wanted to do,” Lane says. “And then I started learning about public health.”

In the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, Lane joined the Louisiana Family Recovery Corps, which was created to respond to the needs of Louisiana families and individuals affected by the disaster. It was there that his eyes were opened “in a huge way” to public health and everything it encompasses.

“I realized that everything I loved, worked in, and studied really culminated in public health,” he says. “When I look back, I realize I’ve always had a great, deep appreciation for it. Because it’s hard work, but it’s very rewarding work.”

Working with the Recovery Corps also gave Lane experience with the U.S. Congress and advising congressional delegates, as well as the state legislature and national and international funders and foundations. “We collected a lot of data and did some policy analysis in order to make recommendations to Congress and the state legislature,” he says. “We told the story of what it was like for these families and individuals to restart their households, maintain their health, basically to restart their lives completely, to do a ‘reboot.’”

These experiences all proved useful to Lane as he moved into his next role, deputy chief of staff for the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. He advised the DHH secretary and worked closely with the legislature and other stakeholders on health policy. Lane was later promoted to chief of staff, and the department was tasked with transforming the state’s Medicaid system, moving from a fee-forservice model to a capitated system.

“That was probably the single biggest transformation of the health care system of the state in years and many, many people in the Medicaid program put in many hours and lots of love into changing the program,” recalls Lane. “This was for almost a million people.”

As chief of staff, Lane was instrumental in addressing the concerns of the health care providers, identifying their issues, and working with Medicaid to provide solutions, all while keeping an eye on the Affordable Care Act as it worked its way through Congress.

Lane also advised the state’s first birth outcomes initiative, a program designed to reverse the number of C-sections that the Medicaid program was performing and decrease the premature birthrate as well. The department’s team of clinical and policy experts persuaded every birthing hospital in Louisiana to adopt a policy banning elective C-sections and deliveries prior to 39 weeks of gestations, leading to better birth outcomes and a decrease in costs.

After two years as chief of staff, Lane was appointed by Governor Jindal to his current position of assistant secretary for public health in October 2011. Less than three months later, Lane began the On-Campus/Online MPH program at Berkeley, and he graduated this May. He characterizes his experience as extremely positive and the faculty as unbelievably supportive. He also enjoys learning from his fellow students: “They are very high caliber; they have great diversity of backgrounds, which really enriches all of our collective experience. Whether we’re on campus, working through an online forum, emailing, or on video or phone conferences— I’ve learned a lot from every single one of them.”

Lane says the program is “addressing what’s going on in the profession today; it’s a very forward view of public health” and has real-world application for him in the Louisiana Office of Public Health, where he leads a team of about 1,200 engineers, doctors, chemists, biologists, nurses, sanitarians, clinicians, emergency preparedness experts, and other professionals. They handle a wide range of health services for the state, including preventive clinical services, infectious disease epidemiology, laboratory, safe drinking water, health inspections, and community health promotion. As Louisiana has historically fared poorly in health rankings—for example ranking 50th in obesity, 48th in diabetes, and 48th in overall health—there are a lot of challenges for Lane to tackle.

One of the office’s successes during Lane’s tenure has been the creation of Well Ahead LA, launched in April 2014 the first-ever statewide program to create healthy locales, designated as WellSpots. The Health Promotion Team collaborates with worksites, hospitals, schools, restaurants, and other places to help them meet wellness benchmarks,

J.T. Lane, Louisiana assistant secretary for public health, makes remarks during a 2014 meeting of the Aspen Institute’s Justice and Society Program in Excellence in State Public Health Law in Washington, D.C. Louisiana was chosen as one of eight states in the inaugural cohort to develop and execute projects that advanced key health priorities in the respective states. The new program is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

like being tobacco-free or breastfeeding friendly. A place or organization that has implemented voluntary, smart changes to contribute to healthy living is designated a Level 1, 2, or 3 WellSpot, with a badge that goes on the main entrance of the building.

Other achievements include building the new Center for Population Health Informatics, which is breaking down data silos for a more comprehensive and sustainable impact on community health. Also, Lane and his leadership team have introduced a more performance-focused culture through the use of Lean Six Sigma methodology across several programs with more to come.

In addition to running Louisiana’s public health office and earning his master’s degree, Lane co-chairs the National Performance Policy Improvement Committee of the Association of State and Territorial Officials—the national nonprofit organization representing public health agencies in the United States—with Rob Chapman, public health director for the State of California. Lane also serves on ASTHO’s board of directors.

“I feel very fortunate to have spent the last four years working with people who are really committed to finding new and innovative ways to make our country a healthier place,” he says. “Not only with my staff in Louisiana, but countless others, in California and all across the country.”

And, he adds, “You know, you can never do too much. You can never do enough when it comes to the health and vitality of our families, to give them healthy, safe communities in which to grow.”

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Student Spotlight | Muska Fazilat

An Afghan woman builds toward a sea change

BY LINDA ANDERBERG | Although she only lived there the first two months of her life, for Muska Fazilat BA ’15, returning to Afghanistan was like returning home. It was also the beginning of a profound transformation, a professional but also deeply personal journey for the 22-year-old UC Berkeley student, an undergraduate majoring in public health.

“Everyone was telling me that it was a war zone, that I shouldn’t go,” she says. “But I was going to my beloved country; I was going to my roots.”

Due to the devastation brought about by the Soviet and civil wars, Fazilat’s family fled Afghanistan and lived as refugees in Pakistan for a decade, finally obtaining visas to immigrate to the United States, on September 10, 2001.

Fazilat then spent half her life in post-9/11 America, attending grade Muska Fazilat school in Southern California and adding English and Spanish to her language repertoire, having already mastered Farsi, Dari, Pashto, Urdu, Hindi, and reading in Arabic. Throughout that time, her family held their Afghani roots close.

“My country, our values, the culture—I constantly saw the love of my country through my parents’ eyes,” she says.

In the summer of 2013, Fazilat was able to experience Afghanistan through her own eyes, when she traveled there as an independent researcher to learn about the maternal health and mortality of women who have suffered through decades of war. She was able to do this in part thanks to financial support and mentorship from the Robert and Colleen Haas Scholars Program, with additional funding from the Bergeron Scholars Fellowship and Feminist Majority Scholarship. Fazilat focused her research on maternal health because Afghanistan has the highest maternal mortality rate in the world.

“Every time a mother dies, a family breaks apart,” she says. “I am passionate about advocating for the women in my country.”

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Within her first week in a war zone, Fazilat was surrounded by 116-degree heat and loud blasts of gunfire and bombs. She was also treated as a foreigner in her own country, despite being a Muslim Afghan woman fluent in Dari and Pashto.

Over time, however, she became immersed in the voices and stories of the women whom she was interviewing about how midwifery practices have evolved from the Taliban regime to the current U.S. occupation. She met hundreds of Afghan women and learned from them their practices and their challenges, their suffering and their tremendous strength. At one hospital, when no doctors were available, she also delivered a baby.

“It was one of the most beautiful moments of my life,” she says. But witnessing the “terrifying and horrible” conditions in which many Afghan women must give birth was also one of the most heartbreaking.

This heartbreak is something that Professor Malcolm Potts, who served as a mentor to Fazilat on her research, understands well.

“As a rational person, when I look at the suffering of women in Afghanistan, I want to weep and turn my attention to some problem more open to solution,” he says. “When Muska Fazilat looks at that suffering, she wants to throw every ounce of her energy and love for others into overcoming problems that seem impossible to solve. I have no idea how she will do it, but something deep inside me says she will make a difference.”

Over the past year and a half since her summer in Afghanistan, Fazilat has put together ideas about how she will make a difference, and she has already begun to implement her plans. She will earn her MPH and an MD, and practice as a physician part-time in the United States and the rest of the time in a developing nation where the need is greatest. (She is currently learning Turkish, her seventh language.) She also wants to work with policy makers to create maternal health practices that are both effective and culturally appropriate.

Muska Fazilat at Malalai Maternal Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan

“Going to Afghanistan and interviewing the ministry of public health and then also doctors, I realized that there is a huge gap of information and understanding,” Fazilat says.

“Policy makers are not really able to address the needs of the patients because they’re not seeing on a daily basis what is happening in the hospitals.”

As an example of this disconnect, Fazilat points to purdah, a religious and cultural practice of female seclusion. Since the Taliban regime, purdah has become more extreme in Afghanistan. In the last decade, there has been ongoing reconstruction in Afghanistan, including the building of hospitals and funding of midwifery schools. But women practicing purdah often prefer to give birth in the home where they can control their surroundings, even though it is riskier, especially because there is not often a doctor present.

“There might be access to a hospital or other resources, but if it’s not going to fit your cultural needs, you’re not going to use it,” says Fazilat. “And that’s going to increase maternal mortality rates. Instead of something that’s designed for Western countries, why not implement solutions that resonate with Afghan culture?”

In Fazilat’s view, culturally appropriate interventions are key. She would also like to see increased education for men and women in Afghanistan, a country where the literacy rate is 26 percent. She believes that including men in the conversation about women’s health is essential.

“Men will listen if you give them a chance and teach them appropriately,” she says. “What husband wants to lose his

wife? What father wants to lose his child? All members of a family need to be part of the solution. We need everyone’s participation if we want to create real change.”

To put her ideas into action, Fazilat is building and empowering a team. This past semester, as a senior at Berkeley, she taught a DeCal (student-led) class on maternal health nonprofits, where students learned about politics, culture, and maternal health in Afghanistan. The class culminated in the launch of a nonprofit organization with a mission to enrich the quality of life for Afghan women and children, one family at a time.

“The class went really well,” Fazilat says, “And I’m working on finalizing the paperwork for the nonprofit.”

Following graduation, Fazilat plans to return to Afghanistan to build a training center in rural Kunduz that will provide traditional midwives with biomedical skills to decrease maternal mortality and morbidity. She was awarded the prestigious Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize in support of this project. Next year, she will be a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.

Some of these plans may take a while to make an impact, but Fazilat is convinced that change will come. “I believe in my generation,” she says, “in the Afghans who are living outside of Afghanistan as well as all the young people who want to make a difference. We each may only contribute one drop, but together we are an ocean.”

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Dean’s Circle 2013–2014 The School of Public Health Dean’s Circle is a community of individual committed benefactors who share in and support the dean’s vision for the School’s future by making annual leadership gifts.

The following list reflects gifts received from July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014:

$100,000 and Above Kathy Kwan & Alan Eustace

$25,000 to $99,999 Elaine Adamson & Edward Gould Dan Giraudo

$10,000 to $24,999 Amy Bassell-Crowe & Jeff Crowe Jerry & Lorraine Factor Eric Grigsby & Mary Rocca Dick & Susie Levy Robert Margolis Ed & Camille Penhoet Jan & Karin Rosati Marc Rosati Dana & Alex Slusky Robert Spear

$5,000 to $9,999 Anonymous Joan & Howard Bloom Terri & John Carlson Camille Grigsby-Rocca Nap Hosang & Joyce Yap Arlene Kasa Cathy & Jim Koshland Nancy Lusk & Michael Smith Merle Lustig & Ronald Glass Gordon & Betty Moore Janet Perlman & Carl Blumstein Steven & Sally Schroeder Bobbie Singer Chris Swany

$1,000 to $4,999 Denise Abrams & David Harrington Walter & Milly Alvarez Anonymous Stacey Baba & Jim Vokac Grace Bardine Raymond Baxter & Aida Alvarez

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Kathleen Bedford & Andrew Robbins Linda Bosserman-Piatt & Theodore Piatt Tom & Jill Boyce Constance Brines & Jonathan Samet Jeffrey & Cathy Brown Charles & Gretchen Carlson Eleanor & George Cernada Chitra Chandran Clement & Frieda Chiang Jerome & Moonhie Chin Nilda Chong Linda & Jamie Clever Roberta & Len Cohn Hana & Meir Dan-Cohen Martha Darling & Gil Omenn Margaret Deane Ellen Eisen & Joshua Cohen Brenda Eskenazi & Eric Lipsitt Pat Evans Ralph & Elizabeth Frankowski Charles & Melissa Froland David Gan Sid Ganis & Nancy Hult Ganis Connie Gee Wallace Gee Julie Gerberding & David Rose Lynn Glaser Thomas Hazlet Jaymie & Orion Henry Paul & Lois Hofmann David & Katharine Hopkins Jeff Hunter Susan Ivey & Peter Bernhard Kenneth Kaiser Jeffrey Kang & Brenda Lee-Kang Nancy Karp Richard & Susan Keeton Suzanne Lea Yvette Leung & Liwen Mah Virginia & Frank Lew Judy Li & David Roland Elizabeth & Bertil Lundqvist

Robert Meenan John Nagle & Stephanie Tristram-Nagle Nora Norback & Darrel Hess Paul Nugent Roberta O’Grady Lisa & Roger Ota Sudhir Penugonda & Christine Hsieh Leland & Kristine Peterson Gerald Pier & Susan Bennett Bob Porter Malcolm Potts & Martha Campbell Darwin & Donna Poulos David Rempel & Gail Bateson Lois Rifkin Richard & Dana Sankary Steve & Nancy Selvin Stephen & Susan Shortell Shannon & John Siegfried Scott & Frances Simonds Shoshanna Sofaer & Lawrence Bergner Amir Sohrabi Alan Sokal & Marina Papa Maury & Jonathan Spanier Emily Stauffer Richard Stephens Maria-Agnes Strandberg Andrea & Paul Swenson Pat & Ken Taylor Ken Taymor & Beth Parker Doris Hawks Torbeck & John Torbeck Bung-Fung & H.C. Torng Tien Tran Rob Tufel & Michael Sasso Rajesh Vedanthan & Sujatha Srinivasan Valeria Velazquez & Marla Wilson Eric Vittinghoff Ivy Vuong Margaret Warton & Steve Benting Joan Wheelwright John & Roxana Yau Cecilia Zapata

Honor Roll 2013–2014 The School of Public Health gratefully acknowledges the following individuals and organizations for their generous contributions from July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014.

INDIVIDUALS Partners ($500 to $999) Ramona Anderson Katherine Armstrong Lee Bailey & Linda Rosenstock Lisa & Michael Barcellos Marilyn Barkin Sallie Bingham Asa Bradman Wendy Breuer & Charlie Crane Lan-Anh Bui Po-Shen & Julie Craig-Chang Pablo Collins Dale Danley Paul Davies Elizabeth Delzell Lynn & Helen Deniston John & Marlene Eastman Michael & Sandra Fischman William Flynn Sue & James Foerster Kimberly Garfinkel Edward Gastaldo Daniel Gentry & Patrick Dunn Robin Gillies Bruce & Jana Good Larry Green & Judith Ottoson John & Sachie Hayakawa Frank & Melinda Huffman Ellen & Donald Irie Julia Klees Laurence Kolonel Cherie Kusman Andrew Lan Carrie & Pat Lee Hanmin Liu & Jennifer Mei Ying Lu & Weizhao Zhou David Mark Elizabeth Martini Margaret & Thomas Merzbacher Rebecca Messing & Evan Haigler Mary & Raymond Murakami Linda Neuhauser & Craig Buxton Mary & Craig Noke Kristine Penner Barbara Peterson & Tom Beach Peter Sherris Nancy & Robert Shurtleff

Judith Stewart John & Gail Swartzberg Corinna & Bill Tempelis Eileen & Jim Vohs Dave & Kathryn Werdegar Kathleen Wesner & Dan Sullivan John Williams Brian Wong & Cindy Gok Kathy Yu & David Su Friends ($250 to $499) Richard & Carlene Anderson Anne Ashe & Larry Orman Lela Bachrach & Slobodan Simic Richard Bailey Michael Bates Michelle Berlin & Robert Lowe Chhaganbhai & Sarojben Bhakta Claire & Ralph Brindis Julie Brown Robert Brown Catherine Carpenter Judy Chan Farmer & Kenneth Farmer Charlotte Chang & James Lastoskie Pujeeta Chowdhary Isabella Chu Carol & Ron Clazie Bernard Cordes Douglas & Jacqueline Corley Michael & Nan Criqui Cynthia Cwik Haile & Ignacia Debas Louise Detwiler James & Dorothy Devitt Alice & Robert Diefenbach Hellan & Bradley Dowden Jacquolyn Duerr & Alberto Balingit Adrian Durbin Julie Frederick-Metos & Tim Metos Mike Gallivan & Douglas Rice Victoria George & Stephen Stoller Carol Giblin Laura Goetz Amanda Golbeck & Craig Molgaard

Amy Goldberg-Day & Mark Day Laurel & Michael Gothelf Jill & Larry Granger Marian & Roger Gray Joseph Guydish Bill & Vickie Hagbom Tad Haight Irva Hertz-Picciotto & Henri Picciotto John & Leta Hillman Pat & Harold Hosel Andrew Joseph Jim Kahn & Rani Marx Susan Karlins & David Sausjord Irene & Kiyoshi Katsumoto Walt Keller Rosalia Kersch Matthew & Linda Kidd Janice Kim Julia & Howard Klee Edward Klinenberg Clement & Donna Kwong Tatiana & Marcelo Lamego Steven Lane & Selora Albin Carol Langhauser Audrey Lau & Buel Rodgers Frances & Ronald Ledford Ai-Chu Wu & Winston Lee Geoffrey Lomax Yun Lu & Xiaopeng Xu Harry & Claire Manji Stuart & Judith Marylander Stephen McCurdy & Kathy Ries Claudia & Robert Nettle Jeff Newman Mary O’Connor & Emil Brown Kara O’Keefe & Massimiliano Poletto Mary O’Leary Perkins & Arthur Perkins Cynthia & Brian O’Malley Lars Osterberg Jeff & Lydia Oxendine Alissa Perrucci Mary Pittman & David Lindeman Lisa Prach & Jacob Corn Denise & Michael Prince Barbara Rever & Jerry Ginsburg Maria Roberts Corinne Rocca

Charles Rogers Thomas Rundall & Jane Tiemann Sidney & Sally Saltzstein Gregg Schnepple Sandra Schwarcz Dana Seeley-Hayse & Tom Hayse Sandra Shewry Jessica Siegel & Stephen Tsoneff Bob Simon Kirk Smith & Joan Diamond Lloyd & Margaret Smith Usha & Bharat Srinivasan Karen Starko Sharon & Raymond Sugiyama Tricia Swartling & Chris Williams Laurence & Ann Sykes Timothy Taylor Nam Thai Feng Tsai Craig & Patricia Van Roekens Mark & Maritza Vukalcic Lesley & Carl Walter Harvey & Rhona Weinstein Michael Weiss Patricia & Phillip West Kathie & Paul Westpheling Otis & Teresa Wong Helen Xu Susan Yeazel & Richard Seegers Amanda Yin Walter Zaks David Zimpfer Supporters ($150 to $249) Victor & Karen Alterescu Dean Baker Keith & Gail Bandel Cecilia Barbosa Kevin Barnett & Alison Neurin Beth Beloff & Marc Geller Pamela Berven Kathleen & R. Brad Bettman Harvey & Bonnie Bichkoff Joe Brazie Maria & Armando Camargo Vegas Elizabeth Carlton Edward & Joann Cavenaugh

Raymond & Grace Chan Ariela & Matthew Chick Elisa & Peter Chiu Dolores & Samuel Clement Kelin & Stig Colberg Aileen Connon David Dassey Rena David & Walter Meyers Robert Davidson Laurel & Stuart Davis Robert & Merle Davis Kathy DeRiemer Gordon Dugan Henry Edington Miriam Eisenhardt & Edward Murphy Nancy Facher Tamar & Joe Fendel Kari Fisher Carol & James Floyd Orcilia Forbes Karen & Reed Foster Don & Diana Francis Dan Funderburk Edward Gallagher Jose & Judith Garcia Nancy Gilien Lily & Mark Gong Robert Gunier & Andrea Saveri Mary & Paul Hamer Rona & Robert Henry Glenn & Jan Hildebrand Rose Hoban Carolyn Hoke-Van Orden & Frank Van Orden Nina Holland Alan & Harriet Hollett Estie & Mark Hudes Brennan & Fitzgerald James Sarah Jewel Yeva Johnson & Michael Potter Patricia Jones Leanne & Richard Kaslow Kenneth & Marchelle Kesler Heather Kuiper & Loren Rauch Deniz Kursunoglu Anita Lee Kelvin & Brenda Lee Rui Li & Gang Wang Jennifer Lin David Lindquist

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Partners in Public Health Ququan Liu & Joey Zhou Steven Lopez Kate Lorig Michelle Loya-Talamantes Bob & Sharlene Lund Xiaomei Ma Mary MacDonald Christiana & Charles MacFarlane Alan & Margaret McKay Marta McKenzie & Lawrence Chapter Olivia Meyer Walter & Gwendal Miner Meredith Minkler & Jerry Peters Marian Mulkey & John Powers Victoria Nelson Stephen Newman Thomas & Johannah Newman Beata & Harlen Ng Elizabeth & Robert Nobmann Audrey & James Nora Luna Okada & Wynn Sheade Nobuko Okano Fisayo Oke Patricia & Richard Olney Karen Oppenheimer Alberto Ortega-Hinojosa Monique Parrish Lesley & Jayson Pereira Therese Pipe Marjorie & Fred Pitts Richard & Julia Quint Edgar Quiroz & Claudia Avila Glenn Randall Valerie Randolph & Donald Fenbert Sujit Rathod Justin Rausa & Colleen Klus Brian Raymond Florence Reinisch Skip & Shirley Rosenbloom Nicholas Ross Sheryl Ruzek & James Griesemer Michael Samuel & Jane Martin Gopal & Andrea Sankaran Nickie Bazell Satariano Robert Schlegel & Janet Fogel Joann Schroeder Steve Schultz & Mary Pacey Erika Schwilk & Shane Papke Joanne & Douglas Schwilk John & Dagmar Searle William Seavey John Sedat Megha Shah & David Whitehead Karen Shiu Randall Smith Lorraine Smookler Kristie Snider Michael Stacey Ken Stanton & Rivka Greenberg David & Faye Starkweather Aristotle Sun Roberta Sung A.R. & Marilyn Taylor Susan Thollaug & Michael Trulson Robert & Allene Tumelty

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Michael & Barbara Turell Barry & Susan Wainscott Charles Weiss Helen Leabah Winter Terry & Antonia Winter Barbara Wismer Sandra Witt Max Zarate Luoping Zhang Contributors ($1 to $149) Mary Abeyta-Behnke & Donald Behnke Andrew Abram Georgette Adjorlolo-Johnson Dorothy Aeschliman Don Allari Joan & Ernest Altekruse Nancy Altemus Dora Alvarez Baharak Amanzadeh Richard & Sue Ames Adele Amodeo Gary & Maria Anderson Henry & Virginia Anderson Anonymous Veena & Pong Apinyavat Emma Arroyave Yoko & Thomas Arthur Setie Asfaha Colette Auerswald William Babbitt Marion Bacciocco Howard & Anita Backer Martha Backstrom Kent Badger Katherine Baer Jane & John Bagwell Debbie Bain Brickley & Jason Brickley Michael Bakal Shelly Ball John Balmes & Sherry Katz Vichayapan Bandhaya Janice Barlow Marina Baroff Samuel & Louann Brizendine Monica Barr Maia Barrow Elaine Base Barry & Susan Baskin Robert & Linda Bates Sanjiv Baxi & Courtney Gonzales Carol & Frank Baxter Sheila Baxter John Beare Lucie Bedard Charles Beesley & Deborah Raines Beesley Claudette Begin Monica Belyea & Stephen Smith Valerie Bengal Mary Ann & Ed Benik Jade Benjamin-Chung Lester & Evelyn Bennett Nancy Berglas David Berke Alissa Bernstein Muriel Beroza Linda Besant & Martha Goetsch

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Trinidad & Patricia Bidar Hope Biswas Rebecca Blankenburg & Steven Lieske Babette & Sydney Bloch Karen Bloch & David Morgan Laura Blum Molly Bode Melissa Bondy & Morris Edelson Robert & Christie Brackbill Anne Bracker & Jefferson Singer Lynda Bradford Jeffrey Braff Robert & Barbara Brandt Russ & Kara Braun Lauren Brener Trula Breuninger Ken & Donna Briney Rachel Broadwin & Lary Heath Yvonne Brouard Kelly Broussard Betty Brown Claude Brown Daniel Brown Garrett Brown & Myrna Santiago Katherine Bryon Hayley Buchbinder Gertrude & William Buehring Joseph Buffler & Sally Caudill Monika Burau Alexandre Bureau & Sylvie Marceau Lisa Butler & Jim Slotta Bette Caan & Larry Mansbach Peter Callas & Karen Nepveu Megan Canon Alexis Captanian Fe Cardona Jim Carpenter & Hope Friedman Kelly Cary Ray & June Catalano Peggy Cawthon Ben Chaffee Daphne Chan Peggy Chan & Rick Gladstone Ryan Chan Shawn Chandler Agatha Chang Doris Chang Jeffrey Chang Roger Chapman Patricia & Earl Charles Donna Chen Susan Chen & Gail Husson Alex Cheng Dawn & Harry Cheng Jean Chin Nancy & Glen Chittenden Alison Chopel Ann Chou Eric Chow Christine Chu Michele Cinq Mars & John Neil Heather Clague & Frederic Theunissen Eric Clausen Ashley & Kenneth Coates Louis & Margaret Coccodrilli

Jane Coffelt Paul & Jane Cohen Sarah Cohen Seymour Cohen Stephanie Cohen James & Peggy Colman Won Cook Sharon & Charles Cooper Kitty Corbett & Craig Janes Patrick Corcoran Lindsay Corley Emily Cotter Djeneba Coulibaly-Traore Larry & Constance Cowper Katrin Cox Myrna Cozen Donald Cremers Barbara & Frank Crews Juliette Cubanski Mark Cullen & Michele Barry Peter & Gwen Dailey Helena & James Daly Lois Damiani Aubrey Daquiz Preeti Dave Veronica Dave Harry & Laurie Davis Maisha Davis Stephen Davis & Chris Laszcz-Davis Barbara & Alain de Janvry Sylvia de Trinidad & Andrew Young Brandon & Shirley DeFrancisci Marlene Dehn Janet Denton & John Andrews Debra DeZarn Kim Diep Leonard Doberne & Cheryl Tau Martha Dominguez Glumaz John & Mary Donahue H.D. & Martha Donnell David & Reade Dornan John Douglas & Jenece Poree William & Chika Dow John Downey & Bradford Hise Jared Drake Jonathan & Susan Ducore Danielle Duong Bonnie Duran Kate Earnhart Abigail Eaton Jenny Eav Evelyn & Leslie Edens Sophie Egan Viola Egli Jose Eguia Richard Emmons & Barbara Voorhees-Emmons Paul English Butch & Diane Enkoji Marsha Epstein Frederick & Jean Erdtman Frank & Nora Estes Amanda Evans Peter & Connie Ewald Shelley Facente Heidi Fancher Kathy Felix

Lia Fernald & Guy Haskin Maria Fernandez Lisa Feuchtbaum & Jim Hynes Jared & Janet Fine Robin & Mark Fine Gerald & Linda Finer Laura Finkler & Larry Walter Nannette Finley-Hancock Paul Fisher Iljie & Michael Fitzgerald Kathleen Fitzgerald Robin Flagg & Jon Braslaw Colleen Floyd-Carroll & Michael Carroll Stewart & Lillian Fong Jessica Foster Darlene Francis Marian Franklin Constance Fraser Carl & Elizabeth Friedericks Katharine & Daniel Frohardt-Lane Gordon Gao & Carrie Peng Celeste Garamendi Brad & Pauline Garber Carole & Carl Garner John Garrison Erika Gavenus Jennifer Gaxiola-Mendoza & Gustavo Mendoza Judith Geisinger Jack & Karen Geissert Christine Gerbstadt Robyn Gerdes Kim Gilhuly Annette Goggio Mahin Golabi Marshall Goldberg Marilyn & Nat Goldhaber Sidra Goldman-Mellor Bernard Goldstein Brenda Goldstein Jan Goldthwait Corey Goodman & Marcia Barinaga Suzan Goodman Shelly Gore & Johannes Van Drimmelen Joan Gorrell Sonal Goyal Gloria & Alfonso Grace Howard Graves & Julie Baller Brent Green Georgia Green Hubert & Jean Green Barbara Green-Ajufo Linda Greenberg & Hiroshi Motomura Maya & Derek Greenfield Nathaniel & Ella Greenhouse Sadja Greenwood & Alan Margolis Reva Grimball William & Lynda Gross Valerie Gruber Becca Grubman Richard Grundy & Jamei Haswell Katherine & Brandon Guest Neela Guha Karen & Richard Gunderson

DECADE CLUB Recognizing individuals who have given for the past 10 years consecutively Elaine Adamson & Edward Gould Adele Amodeo Ramona Anderson Richard & Carlene Anderson Richard Bailey Dean Baker Marina Baroff Elaine Base John Beare Michelle Berlin & Robert Lowe Chhaganbhai & Sarojben Bhakta Harvey & Bonnie Bichkoff Babette & Sydney Bloch Joan & Howard Bloom Lynda Bradford Claire & Ralph Brindis Claude Brown Jeffrey & Cathy Brown Julie Brown Alexandre Bureau & Sylvie Marceau Charles & Gretchen Carlson Terri & John Carlson Eleanor & George Cernada Raymond & Grace Chan Po-Shen & Julie Craig-Chang Patricia & Earl Charles Carol & Ron Clazie Dolores & Samuel Clement Linda & Jamie Clever Ashley & Kenneth Coates Seymour Cohen Larry & Constance Cowper Dale Danley Margaret Deane

Tammy Guo Shivali Gupta Alivia Guzman-Shorter Michael Ha Victoria Ha William Haar Jill Hacker-Chavez & Raymond Chavez Judy Hahn Monica Hahn Mimi Haley Thomas Hall & Elizabeth McLoughlin Rita Hamad Shannon Hamilton Kathy Hammond David Hanna Cooper Hanning Barbara Hansen Eva Hansen Jeffrey Hanson Linda Happ Marianne Harlow Robert Harrell Kathleen Harriman

Marlene Dehn Louise Detwiler James & Dorothy Devitt Gordon Dugan John & Marlene Eastman Jose Eguia Jerry & Lorraine Factor Robin & Mark Fine Gerald & Linda Finer Michael & Sandra Fischman Carol & James Floyd Constance Fraser Katharine & Daniel Frohardt-Lane Mike Gallivan & Douglas Rice Wallace Gee Daniel Gentry & Patrick Dunn Carol Giblin Marian & Roger Gray Linda Greenberg & Hiroshi Motomura William & Lynda Gross Joseph Guydish Elizabeth Hibbard Glenn & Jan Hildebrand Richard Hirsh & Cathy Neto Carolyn Hoke-Van Orden & Frank Van Orden David & Katharine Hopkins Pat & Harold Hosel Estie & Mark Hudes Alma & Ian Kagimoto Arlene Kasa Leanne & Richard Kaslow Sherry Katz & John Balmes Julia Klees Laurence Kolonel

Logan Harris Carisa Harris Adamson & Nick Adamson Constance & Gregory Haslett Marea Hatziolos Norman & Nora Hauret Mary & Rich Hedrick Danica Helb Susan Helmrich & Richard Levine Geraldine Henchy Courtney Henderson Denise Herd & Tyler Stovall Keith Hermanstyne Dorit Hertz & Teven Laxer Elizabeth Hibbard Korie Hickel Warren & Miriam Hill Beverly & Hugh Hilleary Bruce & Valerie Hironaka Richard Hirsh & Cathy Neto Christine Ho Sarah Holcombe Elizabeth Holly & Bruce Seidel Audrey Holm

Cathy & Jim Koshland Ruby Kuritsubo Clement & Donna Kwong Andrew Lan Bruce Lane Frances & Ronald Ledford Kelvin & Brenda Lee Virginia & Frank Lew David Lindquist Bob & Sharlene Lund Nancy Lusk & Michael Smith Shirley Main David & Anne Manchester Harry & Claire Manji David Mark Elizabeth Martini Rosa Medina Robert Meenan Mark Mendell Meredith Minkler & Jerry Peters Mark & Nancy Munekata Mary & Raymond Murakami Linda Neuhauser & Craig Buxton Beata & Harlen Ng Mary & Craig Noke Mary O’Connor & Emil Brown Roberta O’Grady Afolabi & Mojirola Oguntoyinbo Mary O’Leary Perkins & Arthur Perkins Ed & Camille Penhoet Janet Perlman & Carl Blumstein Therese Pipe

Elizabeth Holm Jennifer Hood Noor & Farhad Hooda Ernest & Noreen Hook Alan Houser Byron Hu Karen Hughes & David Mayer Courtney Hutchison Jeanette Hyland Carolina Ibarra Miranda Ip Natasha Iyer Max Jack Heather Jacobs Mary & Kraig Jacobson Loisann Jacovitz Robert Jaffe Debbie Jan Marie Jenkins Diamond Jerry Nami Jhaveri Erica Jimenez Steven Joffe & Elizabeth Haas Noemi Johansson-Miller Jon Johnsen

Mary Pittman & David Lindeman Bob Porter Darwin & Donna Poulos Savitri Purshottam Valerie Randolph & Donald Fenbert Irene Reed Lois Rifkin Jean & Francis Riley Anthony & Barbara Rooklin Lisa Sadleir-Hart & Thomas Hart Sidney & Sally Saltzstein Martha Sandy & Qi Dang Gopal & Andrea Sankaran Linda Smith Schermer & Harry Schermer Steven & Sally Schroeder Takeo Shirasawa Stephen & Susan Shortell Nancy & Robert Shurtleff Jessica Siegel & Stephen Tsoneff Bob Simon Bobbie Singer Kirk Smith & Joan Diamond Lorraine Smookler Shoshanna Sofaer & Lawrence Bergner Krikor & Caline Soghikian Robert Spear Usha & Bharat Srinivasan Susan Standfast & Theodore Wright Edith & Guy Sternberg Wayne Steward

Carol & Thomas Johnson Sarah & Richard Johnson Phillip & Phyllis Jones Robbyne Jones & Daniel Klein Ngon Jue Kathy Jung & Clifford Wong Sarah Kagan Rose Kagawa Alma & Ian Kagimoto Abigail Kahn Zosha Kandel Snehendu & Barbara Kar Barry Karlin Jeff Kasowitz & Adina Allen Kristina Kastler Ryan Keating Jenness & James Keller Justin Keller Lani Kent Cynthia Kenyon & Jasper Rine Michael Kersten Alana Ketchel Stutee Khandelwal Shayda Khanmohammadi Maria Kim

Marilyn & William Stocker John & Gail Swartzberg Andrea & Paul Swenson Laurence & Ann Sykes Pat & Ken Taylor Ken Taymor & Beth Parker Marilyn Teplow Pamela Thompson John Troidl Feng Tsai Robert & Allene Tumelty Michael & Barbara Turell Sandra Tye Eric Vittinghoff Eileen & Jim Vohs Harvey & Rhona Weinstein Michael Weiss Dave & Kathryn Werdegar Kathie & Paul Westpheling John Williams Terry & Antonia Winter Barbara Wismer Sharon Witemeyer Brian Wong & Cindy Gok Kathy Yu & David Su Stella Yu & Hingloi Hung

Ivan Kimuli Joan King-Angell & Jeffrey Angell Amy Kistler Herbert Kiyingi Nancy & Kenneth Klostermeyer Alison Klurfeld Cheryl Knight Jonathan Kniss Alli Knox Omar Kohgadai Dori Kojima Rachel Koontz Zoe Kornberg Nancy Krieger Margaret Kripke & Isaiah Fidler Ruby Kuritsubo Marilyn Kwan Carolyn Lake Uta Landy & Philip Darney Bruce Lane Jennifer Lane Sandra Lane Sierra Larson Lenore Lashley

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Annual Scholarship Tea brings together scholarship awardees and sponsors

Rose Kagawa, recipient of the S. Leonard Syme Scholarship, meets Professor Emeritus Len Syme.

Students Lila Sheira, Chantal Hildebrand, Luis Rodriguez, and Biruk Tammru are ready to mingle with sponsors and fellow scholars.

Dan Lindheim meets Rosalynn Vega, who received the Roselyn Lindheim Award in Environmental Design and Public Health.

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Andrew Sudler, Public Health Alumni Association Diversity Scholarship awardee, and Jessica Klein, a Kaiser Permanente Public Health Scholar, join other scholars at the event.

School of Public Health Policy Advisory Council 2014–2015 Kenneth S. Taymor JD (Chair) Executive Director Berkeley Center for Law, Business, and the Economy UC Berkeley School of Law Raymond J. Baxter PhD Senior Vice President, National Community Benefit Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. Teresa S. Carlson MPH ’84 Health Care Management Consultant (retired)

Policy Advisory Council welcomes Molly Efrusy

Richard M. Levy PhD Chairman of the Board Varian Medical Systems, Inc.

The newest member of the School’s Policy Advisory Council is Molly Efrusy MPH ’02, president and co-founder of the Efrusy Family Foundation—a private family foundation that provides grants in the areas of youth leadership development, international development, social justice, education, and health. She is also a board member and chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the Firelight Foundation, a Santa Cruz-based foundation that identifies, funds, and strengthens community-based organizations in Africa that support the health, resilience, and education of children. Efrusy is an active partner at Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy organization.

William E. Moeller MBA Operating Partner Linden LLC Mary Pittman DrPH ’87 President & CEO Public Health Institute

Margaret Cary MD, MBA, MPH Special Assistant to the Chief Technology Officer Department of Veterans Affairs

Mary Jo Potter MA Senior Advisor BDC Advisors

Linda Hawes Clever MD, MACP Senior Physician California Pacific Medical Center Founder RENEW Molly Efrusy MPH ’02 Partner SV2

J. Leighton Read MD General Partner Alloy Ventures Steven A. Schroeder MD Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care UCSF Department of Medicine Barbara Sandoval Terrazas MPH ’76 Former Director, Planning, Development and Policy Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center, Inc.

Deborah Freund PhD, MPH President Claremont Graduate University John D. Golenski EdD CEO My Dutch Uncle Mark B. Horton MD Consultant Public Health Institute Anthony B. Iton MD, JD, MPH ’97 Senior Vice President, Healthy Communities The California Endowment

Frances Laur Shirley Lauri Leisha Leclair Geraldine Lee Meredith Lee Seung-Won Lee Sheryl Lee Amy Lemke Tomas Leon Jonathan Leong Fernanda Lessa & Ronaldo Pinto Beverly & John Levy Annette Lewis Catherine Lewis Jina Li Jane Liaw William Lienhard Ruby Lin Jennifer Linchey Jean & Robert Lindblom Daphne Ling

Lauren LeRoy PhD Former President & CEO Grantmakers in Health

Baljeet Sangha MPH ’10 President Public Health Alumni Association Administrator, Business Operations and Hospital Associate Administrator, Materials Management San Francisco General Hospital

Stella Ling & Steve Black Ruby Lipsenthal & Aaron Cozen Ruiling Liu Suzanne Llewellyn Moxie Loeffler Michael Logsdon Donna Lohmann & Christopher Barker Lois Lollich Peggy Loper & Michael McShane Leslie Louie & Dave Bowen Edward Low Betty Lucas & Gordon Jackins Walter & Marsha Lucio Jessica Lum Peter Lurie & Suzanne Raitt Elizabeth Ly Marion & James Lyon Jose Maciel Kara MacLeod Daniel Madrigal

Prior to becoming involved in the nonprofit/philanthropy sector, she worked as a health care consultant for 15 years for several companies including McKesson Corporation. Her work focused on outcomes research where she managed prospective and economic modeling studies to determine the cost effectiveness and quality-of-life impact of various drugs and diagnostic tests.

She was also an early employee at UCSF’s Institute for Global Health as well as a researcher at the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Efrusy earned a bachelor’s degree in human biology from Stanford University and a master’s of public health in maternal and child health from UC Berkeley.

Sheryl Magzamen Clare Mahan Shirley Main Tanya Majumder David & Anne Manchester Jerome Manley Carina Marquez Joanne Martin Mike & Jeanee Martin Mary Masland & Ramin Hojati Nancy Masters & Paul Cohen Marlon Maus Fred & Jacqueline Mayer Robert & Darlene McCarthy Brigid McCaw Ivy McClelland Michael & Michele McCulloch Cyra McFadden Norma McKinzie Susan Leslie McLellan Bessanderson McNeil

Leslie McNeil Paul Mead Rosa Medina Raymond Meister & Mary Miller Diane Melendez Dan Meltzer Mark Mendell Ruth Metzger William Meyers Guy Micco & Wende Williams Micco Rei Miike Andrew Miller Jenesse Miller Maria Minjares Jo & Aaron Mintz Marvin Miranda Yasmina Mohan Jeff Molumby Eva Montes & Miguel Padilla Stacy Month

Christina Moore Ana Mora Hilbert Morales & Elizabeth Rose-Morales Walter Morgan & Marlene Kramer Kenneth Moritsugu & Lisa Kory Hallie Morrow Saam Morshed & Nooshin Razani Praneetha Mullangi Donna & Robert Muller Mark & Nancy Munekata Rebecca Munn Cristina Munoz & David Edelman Anne Murphy Mandy Murphy Melissa Murphy Sally Murray Mike Musante Frank Mycroft & Sue Tsang

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Partners in Public Health Ruth Nagano Jane & Paul Nakazato Jean & Antoinette Naples Amalia & Carl Neidhardt Keith Nevitt Chandrika Newman-Zager Keith Ng & Patricia Hui-Ng Russell Nickels Karen Nikolai Fereydoon & Homa Niroomand Carole Norris Barbara Norrish Elizabeth Noth Jean Nudelman & Richard Bock Juno Obedin-Maliver Guy Arsne Obrou Erica Odukoya Afolabi & Mojirola Oguntoyinbo Christina O’Halloran Ruby & Donald Okazaki Beatrice O’Keefe Victor Olano Douglas Oman Patricia Ong’Wen Nicholas Orozco Edith Osato Francesca Osuna Bev Ovrebo Valentine Paredes Benjamin Park Melissa Parker Seema Patel Michelle Pearl & Brett Mendel Anna Peck & Tristan Nichols George & Mary Pedersen Emil Peinert Gianna Peralta Anna Pereira Frederica Perera Joanne Perron Karla Peterson Audrey Pettifor & Mark Schoeman Nancy Pham Michael Picetti Tommie Pippins Samantha Pitts & John Scott Tracy & Mark Poff Amod Pokhrel Katherine Pollard Susan & Tomi Poutanen Cathy Prato Jacqueline & Richard Pryor Savitri Purshottam Brian & Tacy Quinn Florence & Paul Raskin Reimert & Betty Ravenholt Raphy Rebanal Irene Reed Amy Regan Leslie Reiber & David Witt Colleen Reid Emily Reid Kyndaron Reinier & David Henehan Randy Reiter Joel & Irene Resnikoff Carol & Larry Retchin Liza Reynolds & Jason Landis

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Dorothy Rice Jennifer Rice Michael Richards Abigail Ridgway Jean & Francis Riley Abby Rincón Jordan Rinker Elizabeth Rintoul Kyle Rizzo Marilyn Robbie Jossens & Lawrence Jossens Annette & Wilfrid Roberge Diana Rodin Alexandra Rodionova Jocelyn Rodrigues Judith & Paul Rogers Michael & Sharon Rogers Claudia Romeu Sacha Rood Anthony & Barbara Rooklin Julia Rosenblum & Robert Felson Adelle & Bob Rosenzweig Shelley Ross-Larson Mary Russell Jeffrey Sacks & Sue Binder Lisa Sadleir-Hart & Thomas Hart Zahra Salamat Linnea Sallack Steven Samuels Sabeen Sandhu Martha Sandy & Qi Dang Baljeet Sangha Kriselle Santos Laura Santos & Wilton Castro Clea Sarnquist & Tom Arnold Rosita Saw Leigh Sawyer & Gerald Quinnan Alexander Schrobenhauser-Clonan Keith & Isobel Schwartztrauber Harry & Monika Scott Kelsie Scruggs John Sedlander Linda & Lawrence Seidman Karen Sein Shira Shafir & Ted Kroeber Kelsey Sharkey Carol & Alan Sherman Zeheria Shifa Abin Shim Dion Shimatsu-Ong & Gregory Ong Takeshi & Mizuho Shinomoto Takeo Shirasawa Karen Shore Harold & Sonja Shull Lillian Sie Elizabeth Sigman Harry Silas Sara Silverio Marques Paula Silver-Manno & Anthony Manno Ruth Simerly Brooke Simmons Janey Skinner Joan & David Skurnick Brett Smith Edwina & Arthur Smith

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Patricia & David Smith Linda Smith Schermer & Harry Schermer Susan & David Snyder Krikor & Caline Soghikian Zelda & Nathan Sokal Norma Solarz Marcia & Robert Somers Linda Souza Kodman & Rod Kodman Louise Spangle & Alan Walfield Gary & Linda Spaugh Gail Splaver Sowmya Srinivasan Kathryn Stambaugh & Tom Mazzotta Susan Standfast & Theodore Wright James Stark Kristina Staros Helen Stein Jackie Stein & Matt Atwood Bruce Steir & Yen Aeschliman Isabel Stengler Edith & Guy Sternberg Wayne Steward Ori Stitelman Marilyn & William Stocker Corwin Strong Martin & Sharon Strosberg Antoinette & Long Stroup Anne Suess Anne Sunderland Dan Suruki Ann & Ted Suyeyasu Christine Swanson Louise Swig Ali Tabrizchi Mao Taketani Aracely Tamayo Cathy Tashiro & Carl Anderson Marilyn Teplow Gregory & Bonita Thomas Pamela Thompson Colleen & Brian Thornton Jessica Thrift Courtney Tierney Cheryl Toledo Elizabeth Trenkwalder Erika Tribett John Troidl Paulina Tsai Sandra Tsai Mary & Kenneth Tuckwell Sandra Tye Hava Ungar Gail & Kazuo Unno Debra Valentina Evan Vandommelen-Gonzalez Roberto Vargas Dorothy & Clasten Vaughn Jessica Vechakul Sonthonax Vernard Jonathan Volk Lynne Walther Angelia Wang William & Kathryn Ward April & Timothy Watson Berna Watson

Erin & John Watson Karen Weidert & Kent Newman Hillard Weinstock James Wesson James West Holly & Matthew White Todd Whitehead Steve & Beth Wikle Jacquelyn Williams Sharon Witemeyer Lynne Wittenberg & James Feathers Marian Woessner Ashby Wolfe Amanda Wong Francis Wong Walter Wong Jennie Woo Ron & Genevieve Wood Tristen Woodburn Paula Worby Nancy & Douglas Wright Richie Xu Christine Yang Megan Yee & Tim Wong Alexandra Yesian Samuel Yim Sallie Yoshida & Max Kelley Maria-Elena Young Ryan Young Sandra Young Suzanne & John Young Kathleen Yu Stella Yu & Hingloi Hung Saira Zaidi Steve & Vicki Zatkin Marshall Zemon Zhipeng Zhang Jennifer Zhao Alexa Zimbalist Gregory Zimet Christy & Ricky Zimmerman Scott Zimmerman Carla Zingarelli Rosenlicht Stephen Zoloth & Catherine Quimby Jane & Howard Zong Jennifer Zwelling Lisa Zwerling & Ron Birnbaum

IN MEMORY OF Marjorie Sue Abramovitz

by Marshall Goldberg Eki and Nobuta Akahoshi & Seiko Baba Brodbeck

by Stacey Baba & Jim Vokac Dorothy Worose Bengal

by Valerie Bengal Ernest E. Bertellotti

by John & Sachie Hayakawa Henrik Blum

by Katherine Armstrong Richard Bailey Katherine Bryon Bernard Cordes Jean Nudelman & Richard Bock

Lester Breslow

by Henry & Virginia Anderson William Bruvold

by Katharine & Daniel Frohardt-Lane Patricia Buffler

by Walter & Milly Alvarez Yoko & Thomas Arthur Colette Auerswald Jane & John Bagwell Lee Bailey & Linda Rosenstock Lisa & Michael Barcellos Beth Beloff & Marc Geller Sallie Bingham Laura Blum Melissa Bondy & Morris Edelson Constance Brines & Jonathan Samet Samuel & Louann Brizendine Joseph Buffler & Sally Caudill Monika Burau Elizabeth Carlton Kelly Cary Ben Chaffee Jeffrey Chang Nilda Chong Eric Chow Pujeeta Chowdhary Linda & Jamie Clever Sharon & Charles Cooper Barbara & Frank Crews Mark Cullen & Michele Barry Cynthia Cwik Martha Darling & Gil Omenn Paul Davies Barbara & Alain de Janvry Haile & Ignacia Debas Elizabeth Delzell Janet Denton & John Andrews William & Chika Dow Ellen Eisen & Joshua Cohen Farella Braun & Martel LLP Paul Fisher Ralph & Elizabeth Frankowski Connie Gee Daniel Gentry & Patrick Dunn Lynn Glaser Laura Goetz Bernard Goldstein Corey Goodman & Marcia Barinaga Shelly Gore & Johannes Van Drimmelen Camille Grigsby-Rocca Neela Guha Tad Haight Linda Happ Pat & Harold Hosel Frank & Melinda Huffman Robert Jaffe Debbie Jan Sarah & Richard Johnson Robbyne Jones & Daniel Klein Kenneth Kaiser Richard & Susan Keeton Cynthia Kenyon & Jasper Rine

2014 CLASS GIFT Recognizing students and others who participated in this year’s Class Gift Campaign

Julia & Howard Klee Nancy Krieger Margaret Kripke & Isaiah Fidler Cherie Kusman Carol Langhauser Frances Laur Suzanne Lea William Lienhard Daphne Ling Suzanne Llewellyn Elizabeth & Bertil Lundqvist Nancy Lusk & Michael Smith Xiaomei Ma Mary MacDonald Cyra McFadden Olivia Meyer William Meyers Meredith Minkler & Jerry Peters Stacy Month Donna & Robert Muller Rebecca Munn Sally Murray Linda Neuhauser & Craig Buxton

Carina Marquez Ivy McClelland Dan Meltzer Marvin Miranda Eva Montes & Miguel Padilla Christina Moore Ana Mora Afsaneh Mortazavi Praneetha Mullangi Anne Murphy Mandy Murphy Keith Nevitt Paul Nugent Guy Arsne Obrou Patricia Ong’Wen Nicholas Orozco Benjamin Park Joanne Perron Nancy Pham Michael Picetti Raphy Rebanal Amy Regan Colleen Reid Jennifer Rice Kyle Rizzo Claudia Romeu Sacha Rood Mary Russell Kelsey Sharkey Sara Silverio Marques Brett Smith Amir Sohrabi Sowmya Srinivasan Mao Taketani

Katherine & Brandon Guest Robert Gunier & Andrea Saveri Tammy Guo Shivali Gupta William Haar Eva Hansen Logan Harris Danica Helb Courtney Henderson Korie Hickel Sarah Holcombe Byron Hu Courtney Hutchison Natasha Iyer Noemi Johansson-Miller Zosha Kandel Ryan Keating Justin Keller Michael Kersten Stutee Khandelwal Ivan Kimuli Herbert Kiyingi Alison Klurfeld Alli Knox Jennifer Lane Seung-Won Lee Tomas Leon Jennifer Linchey Moxie Loeffler Elizabeth Ly Jose Maciel Kara MacLeod Tanya Majumder

Andrew Abram Dora Alvarez Michael Bakal Vichayapan Bandhaya Maia Barrow Sanjiv Baxi & Courtney Gonzales Jade Benjamin-Chung Alissa Bernstein Trinidad & Patricia Bidar Hope Biswas Molly Bode Kelly Broussard Daniel Brown Ryan Chan Alison Chopel Christine Chu Lindsay Corley Djeneba Coulibaly-Traore Katrin Cox Preeti Dave Veronica Dave Maisha Davis Danielle Duong Jenny Eav Sophie Egan Robin Flagg & Jon Braslaw Jessica Foster Erika Gavenus Jennifer Gaxiola-Mendoza & Gustavo Mendoza Lily & Mark Gong Sonal Goyal Reva Grimball Becca Grubman

Thomas & Johannah Newman Michelle Pearl & Brett Mendel Ed & Camille Penhoet Frederica Perera Malcolm Potts & Martha Campbell Sujit Rathod Emily Reid Kyndaron Reinier & David Henehan Jordan Rinker Charles Rogers Roisman Henel LLP Adelle & Bob Rosenzweig Joann Schroeder John & Dagmar Searle John Sedat Stephen & Susan Shortell Dana & Alex Slusky Lloyd & Margaret Smith Patricia & David Smith Isabel Stengler Richard Stephens A.R. & Marilyn Taylor

Threadgill, Ryan & Associates, P.C. Lynne Walther Erin & John Watson James West Gregory Zimet Christy & Ricky Zimmerman

Donald and Gertrude Chandler

by Shawn Chandler Chin Long Chiang

by Margaret Deane Connie Gee Amanda Golbeck & Craig Molgaard Elizabeth Holly & Bruce Seidel Jon Johnsen Ai-Chu Wu & Winston Lee Kelvin & Brenda Lee Ying Lu & Weizhao Zhou Claudia & Robert Nettle Ed & Camille Penhoet Dorothy Rice Alfred Childs

by Martin & Sharon Strosberg

At Commencement, 2014 Class Gift Committee co-chairs Afsahen Mortazabi BA ’14 (center) and Ana Maria Mora MD, PhD ’14 present Dean Stefano M. Bertozzi with a check representing the graduating class’s fundraising goal for the 2014 Class Gift Campaign.

Aracely Tamayo Jessica Thrift Erika Tribett Hava Ungar Evan Vandommelen-Gonzalez Jessica Vechakul Sonthonax Vernard

Angelia Wang Francis Wong Christine Yang Alexandra Yesian Sandra Young Saira Zaidi Alexa Zimbalist

Richard Conner

by Fred & Jacqueline Mayer

Rose Licht Fodiman

by Rob Tufel & Michael Sasso

Marjorie Witherspoon Kaiser

by Kenneth Kaiser

William Griffiths

by Dan Funderburk Sidney & Sally Saltzstein

Susan Kersch DeYoung

by Rosalia Kersch

Harold Gustafson

by Eleanor & George Cernada Rod Hamblin

by James & Peggy Colman D. Jerome Hansen

by Cooper Hanning Martha Harrell

by Robert Harrell Marie Hatherell

by Alice & Robert Diefenbach Alberta Parker Horn

by Kenneth Kaiser Ruth Huenemann

by Alma & Ian Kagimoto Arlene Kasa Betty Lucas & Gordon Jackins

Elizabeth & Robert Nobmann Mary & Kenneth Tuckwell

Isolde Loewinger

by Lorraine Smookler Kevin Mack

by Tom & Jill Boyce Hana & Meir Dan-Cohen Iljie & Michael Fitzgerald Miranda Ip Kristine Penner Richard & Julia Quint John & Gail Swartzberg Larry Macupa

by Linnea Sallack Walter Mangold

by Larry & Constance Cowper Lynn & Helen Deniston Margaret McChesney

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Supporting student excellence

For student and parent Carly Strouse, helping other families meant going back to school No one would ever say supporting a family of five in the Bay Area on a single income is easy. Nor would they envy a mother of three boys—ages 13, 8, and 1—trying to finish her doctoral degree in maternal and child health while making sure her children don’t miss soccer practice, family reading time, or naps.

Despite the trials and sacrifices, Carly Strouse MPH ’13 has no regrets about returning to school in order to pursue her dreams. Having worked one-on-one with patients and families as a lactation services coordinator with First 5 Alameda County and a hospital outreach coordinator with Alameda Family Services, Strouse realized moving forward that she wanted to reach more people.

“I started to feel like I wasn’t changing the system in any way. I really wanted to have the foundation of an MPH,” she says, “to have the research side as well as the policy side and the programmatic side. At the time, I also had two children who were in the Berkeley public school system, and we weren’t going to leave.”

Strouse came to the UC Berkeley School of Public Health in 2011 and was awarded a scholarship through the Kaiser Permanente Public Health Scholars Program, which provides financial aid to students who plan careers in improving the health of underserved and vulnerable populations. She earned her MPH in maternal and child health in 2013 and is devoted to helping families at a local level.

“I want all children born in this country to have equal opportunity to reach for their dreams, regardless of their income, race, ethnicity, or the place they grew up,” she says.

Strouse then continued into the DrPH program, which she says would not have been possible for her without the support she received from scholarships. As a doctoral student, she was awarded the inaugural Kalmanovitz Graduate Public Health Fellowship and later the Blann Graduate Fellowship.

“When you are in graduate school, you feel the pressure to work, you need to make some money so you can live here,” she explains. “But you really want both feet in school while you’re there. There’s something that’s fantastic about get-

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ting even five or ten thousand dollars in support. It gives you some wiggle room to figure out how you can manage to stay rooted in school. You might have to work, but you can do it on campus with someone you’re really interested in.”

For example, throughout most of her time at the School, Strouse has been able to work with Best Babies Zone (BBZ), a School-based initiative that aims to transform communities through a place-based multi-sector approach to reducing infant mortality and improving birth outcomes.

The project has been a great opportunity for her given her interest in the intersection between community development and public health. And having Strouse involved with BBZ has been a win for the initiative as well.

“Carly has been a pivotal part of developing and implementing the Best Babies Zone Initiative,” says Cheri Pies, clinical professor and principal investigator of BBZ. “Her expertise, maturity, experience, and intellectual engagement with the work have contributed substantially to the success of this initiative and our ability to bring our experiences to the field through articles in peer-reviewed journals and the popular press.”

In the future, Strouse will help parents and children through her work in the local community, and also hopes to support other student parents.

“I think it’s really scary to have kids and think you’re going to go back to school,” she says. “But there’s something about having a parent go to school later in life that tells your kid that you can do anything. They learn that if you have a dream, go for your dream, you can figure out how to achieve it.”

Help our students achieve their dreams Scholarships and fellowships, large and small, can make a difference in whether a student is able to get the training they want and succeed in achieving their dreams. For student parents like Carly, it can allow them to have “both feet in school” while learning the best ways to help their communities.

Please enable other deserving School of Public Health students to stay rooted in learning by making an annual gift in support of student scholarship.

Visit give.berkeley.edu/publichealth to make your gift today.

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by Jill Hacker-Chavez & Raymond Chavez Gopal & Andrea Sankaran Paula Silver-Manno & Anthony Manno Bruce Steir & Yen Aeschliman Helen Xu Beryl Roberts

by Elaine Base Guido Rosati

by Jan & Karin Rosati Marc Rosati Robert Spear Chris Swany Sarah Ruby

by Joan & Howard Bloom Charles Smith

by Robert Harrell Elfi Tarazona

by Rachel Broadwin & Lary Heath Constantine Tempelis

by Corinna & Bill Tempelis Jean Todd

by Lynda Bradford Audrey Veregge

by Elizabeth Hibbard Helen Wallace

by Claude Brown Hubert & Jean Green Warren Winkelstein

by Alan Houser Sheryl Magzamen Jesus Zapata

by Cecilia Zapata Sara-Mae Zemon

by Marshall Zemon

IN HONOR OF Joel Cohen

by Paul & Jane Cohen Jack Colford

by Yeva Johnson & Michael Potter

Dominican Sisters

by Robert Harrell

Jean Wallace

by Judith Geisinger

Riad Hamad

by Rita Hamad

ORGANIZATIONS

Patricia Hosel

by Daniel Gentry & Patrick Dunn Cathy Kodama

by Paula Silver-Manno & Anthony Manno Meredith Minkler

by John Balmes & Sherry Katz Claudette Begin Gertrude & William Buehring Ray & June Catalano William & Chika Dow Brenda Eskenazi & Eric Lipsitt Lia Fernald & Guy Haskin Darlene Francis Denise Herd & Tyler Stovall Ernest & Noreen Hook Susan Ivey & Peter Bernhard Guy Micco & Wende Williams Micco Douglas Oman Ed & Camille Penhoet Stephen & Susan Shortell Kristina Staros John & Gail Swartzberg My parents

by Saam Morshed & Nooshin Razani Amani Nuru-Jeter

by Yeva Johnson & Michael Potter Zak Sabry

by Martha Dominguez Glumaz Steve Selvin

by William Flynn Nancy Selvin Stephen Shortell

by David Berke Daniel Gentry & Patrick Dunn Kenneth Kaiser David Starkweather

by Pamela Berven

Executive Circle ($100,000 and Above) Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Alpha Foundation The California Endowment The California Wellness Foundation Cary L. Guy Foundation, Inc. Consejo Nacional De Ciencia Techologia Consulado de Mexico East Bay Community Foundation Eustace-Kwan Family Foundation Genentech, Inc. Gilead Sciences GlaxoSmithKline Intel Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation John Templeton Foundation Kaiser Permanente The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Sutter Health Care UBS Optimus Foundation Director’s Circle ($50,000 to $99,999) AbbVie, Inc. Atlantic Philanthropies Brigham and Women’s Hospital Bristol-Myers Squibb US Pharmaceutical Group Chimerix, Inc. Dartmouth College Harvard University Merck & Co., Inc. Novo Nordisk The Safeway Foundation

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by Lauren Brener

Leaders ($25,000 to $49,999) Anthem Blue Cross Of California Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. California HealthCare Foundation Childbirth Connection Health Services Advisory Group Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC Kalmanovitz Charitable Foundation Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. University of Southern California University of Texas - El Paso Vertex Pharmaceuticals Benefactors ($10,000 to $24,999) Abbott Laboratories Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. American Association for the Study of Liver Disease Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Biomimicry 3.8 Institute Boehringer Ingelheim USA Corp Celera The Commonwealth Fund European Association for the Study of the Liver Health Career Connection Health Roots Foundation HealthCare Partners Medical Group Idenix Pharmaceuticals Illumina, Inc. Janssen RND, LLC Korean Community Center of the East Bay Max Factor Family Foundation Medivir Aktiebolag Mylan, Inc. National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance PPD Development, LLC Quest Diagnostics, Inc. Ralphs Grocery Company The San Francisco Foundation

The Schwab Fund for Charitable Giving Silicon Valley Community Foundation University of Chicago Patrons ($5,000 to $9,999) Alere North America, Inc. Consulate General of Columbia FMC Corporation Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation Infectious Diseases Society of America Los Palos Gastroenterology, Inc. Merle A Lustig Trust Raymond Schinazi & Family Foundation Secretaria Nacional del Migrante Sutter East Bay Medical Foundation Advocates ($1,000 to $4,999) The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Atlantic County Medical Society California State Social Services Department Chevron Corporation Dextra Baldwin McGonagle Foundation Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Foundations for Peace Global Healing Peter B Bernhard Irrevocable Trust Presidio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Seattle Foundation UC Chinese Alumni Foundation Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program Partners ($500 to $999) Farella Braun & Martel LLP GE Foundation Goldman Sachs & Company Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund Alfred Sasso Memorial Charitable Lead Trust Wells Fargo Foundation

Benjamin Ide Wheeler Society Recognizing donors who have expressed their intention to include the School of Public Health in their estate plans Grace Bardine

Viola Egli

Joan Lam

Harper & Leonisa Puziss

Marshall Blann & Carolyn Parrish

Robert Frangenberg & Ingrid Lamivault

Carol Langhauser

Stephen & Patricia Rappaport

Paul Boumbulian

Barbara Hansen

Doris Brusasco

Kenneth Kaiser

Nilda Chong

Arlene Kasa

Paul & Susan Conforti

Jogi and Tejbir Khanna

J. Michael Mahoney Roberta O’Grady Pamela Peeke & Mark Pearl Therese Pipe Bob Porter

Ronald & Genevieve Roberto Steve Schultz & Mary Pacey Bobbie Singer Joan Wheelwright

Estate Gifts received from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014 Dorothy Fowler Eleanor Langpaap Ruth Morse Connie Tempelis Violet Thwaites

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Friends ($250 to $499) Nova Fisheries, Inc. The Oregon Community Foundation Supporters ($150 to $249) Google, Inc. Iris Environmental Jewish Community Foundation of the West The McKesson Foundation Roisman Henel LLP Contributors ($1 to $149) American Endowment Foundation Amgen Foundation, Inc. Edison International El Zacatecano Goodsearch IBM Corporation Land O’Lakes, Inc. Lantern Projects Microsoft Corporation Northrop Grumman Foundation Thermo Fisher Scientific Threadgill, Ryan & Associates, P.C.

MATCHING GIFTS

American Endowment Foundation Amerprise Amgen Foundation, Inc. The Benevity Community Impact Fund California HealthCare Foundation Chevron Corporation Edison International GE Foundation Goldman Sachs & Company Google, Inc. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation IBM Corporation Iris Environmental Land O’Lakes, Inc. The McKesson Foundation Microsoft Corporation Northrop Grumman Foundation Robert Wood Johnson Foundation The San Francisco Foundation Texas Instruments Thermo Fisher Scientific Wells Fargo Foundation

GIFTS IN KIND

Acme Bread Company Albany Bowl Ashkenaz Berkeley Playhouse Berkeley Repertory Theatre Berkeley Symphony Bette’s Oceanview Diner California Jazz Conservatory Funky Door Yoga Berkeley The Jazz School Jodie’s Bar-B-Que La Mediterranee La Note Restaurant Little Star Pizza on Solano Pho 84 Restaurant Rialto Cinemas Westwood San Francisco Cruises Semifreddi’s Bakery Shotgun Players Venus

Every effort has been made to provide a complete and accurate listing of individual donors and their gifts to the School of Public Health from July 1, 2013, to June 30, 2014. Should you discover a mistake or omission, please accept our apologies and contact us at (510) 642-2299 or trini@berkeley.edu so that we can correct our records.

Your planned gift will help make the world a healthier place for generations to come By including a gift to the UC Berkeley School of Public Health in your will or revocable trust, you can create a legacy that impacts the School’s future without depleting personal assets during your lifetime.

We can work with you to make certain that your gift aligns with what you value most, whether that is scholarships, research, a specific program or department, or pressing needs identified by the School.

For more information on including the School of Public Health in your will or living trust, contact the Office of Gift Planning at (800) 200-0575 or ogp@berkeley.edu. You can also visit planyourlegacy.berkeley.edu to learn more about the benefits of gift planning.

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Around the School | News and Notes

Planned building includes new quarters for School of Public Health

Meet the new faculty: Lexin Li Lexin Li joined the School’s faculty as an associate professor of biostatistics in 2014.

His research interests include neuroimaging data analysis, networks analysis, personalized recommendation, computational biology, dimension reduction, statistical machine learning, and Big Data analytics.

Artist’s rendering of Berkeley Way West building

Plans are in development for a new building that will reunite most of the School of Public Health in one location. It will also house the Graduate School of Education and the Department of Psychology, which are currently in seismically challenged space in Tolman Hall. The facility will occupy space at the west edge of the block bounded by Berkeley Way to the south, Oxford Street to the east, Hearst Avenue to the north and Shattuck Avenue to the west.

Since the 2008 demolition of Warren Hall, which had been home to the School of Public Health since 1955, the School has been housed in temporary quarters in 17 buildings both on- and off-campus, with central administrative offices in University Hall.

The proposal for the new Berkeley Way West building was approved by the UC Regents in May. Construction is scheduled to begin in late 2015, with anticipated occupancy by fall 2017.

Li received a BE in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University, P.R. China, in 1998, and a PhD in statistics from School of Statistics at the University of Minnesota in 2003.

He then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at School of Medicine at UC Davis from 2003 to 2005. Li joined the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University as an assistant professor in 2005 and was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2011. Most recently he was a visiting faculty member in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University and Yahoo Research Labs from 2011 to 2013.

New maternal and child health center established The School has launched the Wallace Maternal and Child Health Center, funded by a $13 million bequest by Dr. Helen Wallace, a world-renowned professor, mentor, and advocate.

level of research, from discovery science to implementation and dissemination of evidence, the Wallace Center will complement the school’s existing Maternal and Child Health (MCH) program and the Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability.

The new center will engage in innovative, evidence-based research aimed at creating healthier generations of women, mothers, Dr. Helen Wallace children, and families in the United States.

Wallace, who died in 2013 at the age It will focus on educating and training public health of 99, mentored generations of students as a professor leaders primarily, but not exclusively, from states west of and chair of the MCH program from 1962 to 1980 and the Mississippi River through interdisciplinary scholarwas known for her passion for improving the lives of ships and fellowships. By fostering partnerships at every women and children.

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Holmes honored by anthropology, geography, sociology, and LGBTQ organizations Assistant professor of public health and medical anthropology Seth Holmes recently won the James M. Blaut Award in recognition of his book, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, which explores how market forces, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and health care for migrant farmworkers. The award, established by the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers, is issued annually for innovative scholarship in cultural and political ecology.

Holmes’s book has received several other awards, including the Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Award (2013), the New Millennium Book Award (2013), the Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award (2014), and the Out for Sustainability Award (2014). In addition, Holmes was the recipient of the 2014 Margaret Mead Award, bestowed annually by the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology, in recognition of his research and the book.

Biostatistics teaching team honored for innovative excellence Assistant professor Maya Petersen and biostatistics doctoral student Laura Balzer were awarded the 2014 American Statistical Association’s (ASA) Causality in Statistics Education Award. The two were selected for their innovative course, Introduction to Causal Interference (PH252D). This award is presented annually to an individual or team that does the most to enhance the teaching and learning of causal inference in introductory statistics courses. Petersen’s course was

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Hu wins WHO award for tobacco control Professor Emeritus Teh-wei Hu was honored by the World Health Organization (WHO) with a 2014 World No Tobacco Day Award for the Western Pacific Region, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to economic tobacco control. Every year, WHO recognizes individuals or organizations in each of the six WHO Regions for their accomplishments in the area of tobacco control. The awards are presented on World No Tobacco Day to no more than six individuals or organizations per region. The theme for 2014 World No Tobacco Day was “Raise taxes on tobacco,” an area in which Hu has worked tirelessly and effectively. Hu received his award at the Ministry of Health in Bejing at its WHO World No Tobacco Day ceremony.

recognized for its clear lectures, detailed discussion assignments, and innovative labs and homework assignments using R. According to the ASA press release, “Petersen and Balzer have prepared a new generation of scientists, who have acquired the tools of modern causal analysis and are equipped to tackle each step of the causal roadmap.”

180 invited members from more than 30 countries, all internationally renowned experts who have devoted their lives to the fields of occupational and environmental health.

Eskenazi inducted into Collegium Ramazzini

Karen Sokal-Guitierrez, associate clinical professor with the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program, received the 2014 Faculty Award for Achievement in Global Oral Health from the UCSF School of Dentistry as a tribute to the impact of her work and to encourage excellence in the emerging field of global oral health.

Sokal-Gutierrez is a physician trained in pediatrics, preventive medicine, and public health, and has worked in global health for more than 30 years, including for the past 10 years leading a family of studies

Brenda Eskenazi, professor of epidemiology, was inducted into the Collegium Ramazzini as a fellow during the annual Ramazzini Days in Carpi, Italy. Founded in 1982, Collegium Ramazzini is an independent, international academy with

Sokal-Gutierrez wins UCSF achievement award for global oral health work

on children’s oral health and nutrition in El Salvador, Ecuador, Peru, Vietnam, Nepal, and India. The award was presented at UCSF’s annual Global Oral Health Symposium. Sokal-Gutierrez was also a keynote speaker at the symposium and gave a talk titled “Observations from the Field: The Importance of Considering Life Course in Early Childhood Caries.”

Epidemiology professors receive grant to transform undergrad curriculum

A team of School of Public Health faculty members has received a 2014-2015 Presidential Chair Fellows Curriculum Enrichment Grant. The grant, awarded

by Berkeley’s Center for Teaching and Learning, provides an opportunity for a team of two or more faculty members to develop, improve, transform, and examine core areas of the undergraduate curriculum. Professors William Satariano and Lisa Barcellos received the award for their project, a Capstone Course for the Undergraduate Major in Public Health, designed to review, integrate, and apply concepts and methods presented in the core courses. The course is part of a larger planning effort to expand and better integrate the core curriculum in the undergraduate public health major.

Chancellor honors Ozer for research in the public interest Emily Ozer, professor of community health and human development, was chosen to receive a 2014-2015 Chancellor’s Award for Public Service in the category of Faculty Research in the Public Interest.

The public service awards are presented annually to recognize UC Berkeley students, staff, faculty, and community

New book by Deardorff sheds light on girls’ early puberty Extensive research reveals that girls are going through puberty earlier than previous generations. But what happens when a girl has the brain of an 8-yearold and the body of a 13-year-old? Julianna Deardorff, associate professor of maternal and child health, helps to answer this question and more in a book co-written with Dr. Louise Greenspan, a pediatric endocrinologist who works at Kaiser Permanente and is on the faculty at UCSF. The New Puberty: How to Navigate Early Development in Today’s Girls draws on their landmark, cutting-edge research and years of clinical experience to explain why girls are developing at a faster rate, and enumerates both established and little known puberty prompters.

Dr. Louise Greenspan (left) and associate professor Julianna Deardorff at a book release event in Sausalito, California

partnerships that embody Berkeley’s proud tradition of public service and commitment to improving our local and global community. Ozer was recognized for her development of curricula and programs that support positive youth development and result in improved mental and physical health outcomes for young people.

For example, her Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR) project in public schools in San Francisco has engaged more than 350 student peer leaders over the last nine years, supporting them in their work to conduct research as a tool for creating institutional change. Another of Ozer’s projects aims to prevent substance abuse among adolescents by improving their sleep. She was presented with the award at a ceremony in May hosted by Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks.

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Researchers find neural compensation in people with Alzheimer’s-related protein The human brain is capable of a neural workaround that compensates for the buildup of beta-amyloid, a destructive protein associated with Alzheimer’s disease, according to a study led by Professor William Jagust and researchers. The findings, published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, could help explain how some older adults with beta-amyloid deposits in their brain retain normal cognitive function while others develop dementia. Previous studies have shown a link between increased brain activity and beta-amyloid deposits, but it was unclear whether the activity was tied to better mental performance.

The study included 22 healthy young adults and 49 older adults who had no signs of mental decline. Brain scans showed that 16 of the older subjects had beta-amyloid deposits, while the remaining 55 adults did not. The researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track the brain activity of subjects in the process of memorizing pictures of various scenes. Afterwards, the researchers

tested the subjects’ “gist memory” by asking them to confirm whether a written description of a scene, such as a boy doing a handstand, corresponded to a picture previously viewed. Subjects were then asked to confirm whether specific written details of a scene, such as the color of the boy’s shirt, were true.

“Generally, the groups performed equally well in the tasks, but it turned out that for people with beta-amyloid deposits in the brain, the more detailed and complex their memory, the more brain activity there was,” said Jagust. “It seems that their brain has found a way to compensate for the presence of the proteins associated with Alzheimer’s.”

Berkeley report checks the health claims of popular sports, vitamin drinks While sales of sodas are slipping, the huge category of alternative sugary beverages—which includes energy, sports, tea and fruit drinks—is growing rapidly and is perpetuated by misleading health claims, according to a UC Berkeley study.

Researchers at UC Berkeley’s Atkins Center for Weight and Health investigated the growing and often confusing list of supplements added to sugary drinks to determine their

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effects on their most common consumers—children and teens. Their findings: In most cases, they provide little or no health benefits. In some cases the added ingredients may actually be dangerous, and in virtually all cases, manufacturers attempt to put a “health halo” over what is an otherwise unhealthy sugary beverage. The study is the first comprehensive, scientific look at the potential health impacts on young people of 21 popular sugary drinks touted by manufacturers as “health and strength enhancing.” It points to the significant sugar and calories these drinks contain as being troublesome, and also focuses on the additives that are typically marketed as health and performance-enhancing, including caffeine, non-caloric sweeteners, sodium, vitamins and minerals, and other supplements such as guarana, ginseng, taurine, gingko biloba, and ginger extract. Of these five extracts, only ginger extract is classified as “likely safe” for children by the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

Expanding palliative care could reduce California hospital spending by billions, says report

Study investigates flame retardants and childhood obesity link A study published in Environmental Health Perspectives investigates the relationship between flame retardants and childhood obesity. Researchers examined whether pre- and postnatal exposure to the components of PentaBDE mixture, a flame retardant found in flexible polyurethane foam, was associated with childhood obesity. Studies on postnatal exposures to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and their relation to childhood obesity have had mixed results; this was the first study to examine the effects of prenatal exposure on childhood obesity. The analysis showed that associations between in utero exposure to PBDEs and body weight at age 7 differ between boys and girls, with positive associations in boys and negative associations in girls. The study also found an inverse association between BMI at age 7 and child serum levels of BDE-153, one component of PentaBDE, with no interaction by sex.

The study was conducted by Dr. Ayca Erkin-Cakmak, who was a Berkeley MPH student at the time. She is currently a clinical scientist with the Division of Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, UCSF. This study drew on data from the Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas (CHAMACOS) longitudinal study led by Brenda Eskenazi, professor of maternal and child health and epidemiology and director of the Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health (CERCH). Coauthors of this research include Kim Harley, Asa Bradman, Katherine Kogut, Karen Huen, and Brenda Eskenazi, all with CERCH, and Jonathan Chevrier from the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University.

A report by the Berkeley Forum for Improving California’s Healthcare Delivery System found that California hospital spending could be reduced by billions of dollars over the next eight years if patients’ wishes about palliative care were honored. The Forum—a collaborative effort involving executive leadership of major health insurers, health care delivery systems and the State of California, with health policy experts from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health— previously issued a vision of increased choice and better value for patients nearing end of life.

The new report builds on that vision, highlighting three major programs that give patients in California greater choice of care outside the hospital. The programs’ interdisciplinary teams incorporate patient goals and wishes when planning treatment, resulting in patient-centered care that tends to move people out of intensive hospital settings and into care in the community.

The study also found that by expanding access to community-based palliative care to more than 100,000 Californians a year through 2022, over $5.5 billion could be moved from high-cost, unwanted hospital services while honoring patient wishes for care at home and in other community settings. The lead author of the report is Eric Kessell, policy director for the Berkeley Forum.

The Forum is chaired by Professor and Dean Emeritus Stephen Shortell and cochaired by Professor Richard Scheffler.

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Greater income inequality linked to more deaths for black Americans

Birth control shot linked to moderately increased risk of HIV infection A large meta-analysis of 12 studies in sub-Saharan Africa found that women who used a type of injectable birth control had a moderately increased risk of becoming infected with HIV. The contraceptive, depot medroxyprogesterone acetate, is sold under the brand name Depo-Provera, and it is administered as a shot every three months. The findings, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, included data from 39,500 women. The researchers selected the studies based upon methodological rigor, such as whether they accounted for the use of condoms. In addition to Depo-Provera, the studies also examined other commonly prescribed forms of hormonal contraception, such as the injectable norethisterone oenanthate (sold as NET-EN), combined oral contraceptives and progestin-only pills. The other birth control methods did not appear to increase HIV infection risk for women in the general population.

The study found that women who used depot medroxyprogesterone acetate had a moderate, 40 percent increased risk of acquiring HIV compared with women using non-hormonal methods and those not practicing birth control. The increased risk was slightly lower, 31 percent, among the studies of women in the general population. It remains unclear why the increased risk was seen among those using Depo-Provera but not the other forms of hormonal contraception, the authors said. They cautioned that the increased HIV infection risk needs to be considered in the context of the risks associated with not using birth control.

The study’s lead author is Lauren Ralph, who conducted the research for her UC Berkeley PhD dissertation in epidemiology. Dr. Nancy Padian, a UC Berkeley adjunct professor of epidemiology, is senior author. Other coauthors are Sandra McCoy, a UC Berkeley assistant adjunct professor of epidemiology, and Karen Shiu, who was a research analyst in Padian’s research group at the time of the study.

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Greater income inequality is linked to more deaths among African Americans, but the effect is reversed among white Americans, who experienced fewer deaths, according to a study published in the International Journal of Health Services. The study highlights stark racial differences in the effects of the widening wage gap. The United States has one of the largest gaps between rich and poor among developed nations. According to a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, income grew by 275 percent for the top 1 percent of households between 1979 and 2007. In comparison, income for households in lower brackets grew only 40 to 65 percent in that same time period. The bottom 20 percent of households saw their incomes grow by only 18 percent. The researchers analyzed census data from 107 U.S. metropolitan areas with populations that numbered 100,000 people or more and that were at least 10 percent African American. They used three different measures to assess income inequality, and then matched the results to National Center for Health Statistics mortality data from the same period. The researchers found that with each unit increase in income inequality, there were an additional 27 to 37 deaths among African Americans. For white Americans, however, each unit increase in income inequality resulted in 417 to 480 fewer deaths. Though other studies have established the association between greater income inequality and poorer health on a population level, this is one of the few studies to explicitly factor in race, according to associate professor Amani Nuru-Jeter, the study’s lead author.

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2010s Sophie Egan MPH ’14 (Health & Social Behavior) writes, “I recently took a job at The Culinary Institute of America as the new director of programs and culinary nutrition for the Strategic Initiatives Group. I work at our Greystone campus in St. Helena, Calif., overseeing a portfolio of the college’s food industry leadership initiatives related to health and sustainability. I am also at work on my first book, which is a journey into the American food psyche, to be published by William Morrow (Harper Collins).”

Rebecca Fuoco MPH ’12 is living in Los Angeles and working at the UCLA Center for Digital Behavior. The center advances the use of new technologies (social media, mobile apps, etc.) for behavioral research and interventions. Since being diagnosed with narcolepsy early last year, she has also become an advocate for sleep disorder research and awareness.

Fuoco has written about the topic for Huffington Post and is the managing editor of the Project Sleep blog.

Christopher Golden PhD, MPH ’10 was named a 2014 Emerging Explorer by the National Geographic Society. The program recognizes and supports inspiring adventurers, scientists, and innovators.

Golden is studying the effects of global environmental trends on human health.

His goal is to quantify how problems like wildlife depletion, land-use change, or climate change affect the well-being of people and then to link those results to actionable policies. Based at the Harvard School of Public Health, he was recently appointed director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Health & Ecosystems: Analysis of Linkages.

Sonal Goyal MPH ’14 (Epidemiology) was selected as one of 31 ASPPH/CDC Alan Rosenfield Global Health Fellows.

The fellows engage in an intensive oneyear assignment at the CDC within the Center for Global Health. Goyal was based in Thailand. Fellows participate in CDC global projects aimed at reducing

the burden of disease and disability on people who live without access to basic, life-saving health care, as they build their own capacity to be the next generation of global health leaders.

Shivali Gupta MPH ’14 (Infectious Diseases & Vaccinology) writes, “Currently, I’m a first-year medical student at Rocky Vista University of Osteopathic Medicine in Colorado. I must say that the highly structured MPH program at UC Berkeley has given me a lot of skill that I’m using everyday throughout my medical education!”

Sylvia Leung at the Dead Sea Sylvia Leung BA ’10 writes, “I visited Palestine and Israel (including the Dead Sea) last spring. I learned more about the Israel-Palestine conflict and the health and humanitarian needs of Palestinians in particular.”

Tim Ho MD, MPH ’14 writes, “On August 20, 2014, I presented Kaiser Permanente’s use of big data to improve health outcomes at the Information Session of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Medical Protective Association.”

Charlene Kemmerer BA ’10 writes, “I spoke/presented as part of a panel at the National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media in Atlanta. The title of my presentation was ‘Improving Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Among Children with Special Health Care Needs and Adults with Disabilities.’ ” Daniel Lee MBA, MPH ’13, writes that since graduation from the MPH and MBA dual degree program in December 2013, he has been working with a medical device startup called Lift Labs that makes tremor cancellation devices for people suffering from Essential Tremor and Parkinson’s disease. In September 2014, Lift Labs was acquired by Google[x]’s Life Sciences division, the R&D division of Google that specializes in developing moonshots—audacious solutions that have the potential to make the lives of millions better. He continues to work on his interest area—devices that unlock people’s latent potential and overcome obstacles.

Moxie Loeffler MPH ’14 writes, “My family spent the summer after graduation from the MPH program living in Copenhagen, Denmark. A very healthy city—designed to make people want to cycle and walk. Now we are settling into our new place in New Hampshire. I joined the faculty at Dartmouth Medical School as an assistant professor in primary care, where I teach and do research on food security, the built environment, and air pollution exposure.”

Sarah MartinAnderson PhD, MPP, MPH ’10 (Epidemiology) writes, “I am in my second year as a tenure-track assistant professor of health services administration at the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. My research focuses on the social

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determinants of health inequalities, and my current projects all revolve around the role of community health workers in improving health outcomes in the urban core. I teach courses in health economics, social determinants, and program evaluation and also run Maricopa Evaluation—an independent program evaluation firm serving nonprofit clients.

I recently ran my eighth obstacle course race and joined a competitive hip hop dance team!”

Olivia Chang Tran MPH ’10, (Infectious Diseases & Vaccinology) writes, “As a research and program manager with Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation, I provide statistical and programmatic support for HIV/AIDS research activities. The majority of my work currently focuses on HIV prevention and care for people who inject drugs (PWID) in Tanzania. During the 20th International AIDS Conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, I presented orally on prevalence and predictors of Hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV/HCV co-infection among methadone clients in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.”

serves as assistant professor of clinical anesthesia at Indiana University School of Medicine and as a staff anesthesiologist at Eskenazi Health, where he is chair of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. Previously, he served as a general anesthesiologist at Ball Memorial Hospital in Delaware County and as a physician rapid responder at Indianapolis Orthopedic Hospital. Adams has been a member of several professional organizations and serves as chair of the Professional Diversity Committee for the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

He is on the executive committee for the Indiana State Medical Association.

Stephanie Weber DrPH ’11 married James Moore in July 2014. She works for the United States Agency for International Development. The couple resides in Washington, DC.

Colleen Barclay MPH ’08 (Epidemiology/ Biostatistics) writes, “Three years ago, after a lifetime in California, I moved to North Carolina so that I could play an active role in my grandchildren’s lives.

Since then I’ve worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as the program coordinator for the UNC Research Center for Excellence in Clinical Preventive Services, where I manage a multidisciplinary team of investigators and conduct education and dissemination activities about appropriate use of screening. In mid-September, I traveled to Oxford, UK, to present a paper at the Preventing Overdiagnosis conference.”

Jane Yang MPH ’11 celebrated one year working as an epidemiologist with the San Francisco Department of Public Health last fall, while her partner, Adam Crawley MPH ’11 celebrated his one-year anniversary working with the Pandemics team at the Skoll Global Threats Fund.

The two met while they were MPH students and still live in Berkeley with their two dogs, Heidi and Merlin. Adam serves on the Public Health Alumni Association board of directors.

Jayshree Chander MD, MPH ’03 writes, “I’ve started Beyond Holistic, a new nonprofit organization focused on primary prevention of injuries and illnesses. It is a non-traditional physician-led interdisciplinary, integrative, intercultural practice aiming to reduce dependence on medical care by engaging individuals as agents of personal and communal health through arts, action, humor, information, and inspiration, with special attention to people in their habit-forming years.”

2000s Jerome Adams MD, MPH ’00 was appointed commissioner for the Indiana State Department of Health by Governor Mike Pence. Adams has worked for several years in the medical field and currently

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Kathleen Dunphy PhD ’09 (Infectious Diseases & Immunity) writes “I’m now a senior scientist at GeneWeave Biosciences in Los Gatos, Calif. I’m married and have a baby named Helena.”

Jessica Jeffrey MD, MBA, MPH ’04 (Maternal & Child Health) became a health sciences assistant professor in

child and adolescent psychiatry at UCLA. Jeffrey graduated from the UCLA Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program in June 2014. Her interests include systems of care, quality improvement, and family resilience. She has been exploring models of behavioral health care delivery within primary care and community settings with aims to increase access to high quality behavioral health services. Currently, she provides child psychiatric services within a primary care setting.

Linda Kincaid MPH ’01 is co-chair of the Coalition for Elder & Dependent Adult Rights. Her passion is investigative journalism. She primarily reports on elder abuse, especially failure of law enforcement and social services agencies to protect elder victims.

Kincaid advocates for elder rights across the country.

Janell Routh MD, MS ’01 (Joint Medical Program), deployed with the CDC to Sierra Leone in September 2014 to assist the Ebola epidemic response, working on surveillance and contact tracing.

Neda Saleh MS, BA ’08, LAc worked post-graduation as a medical assistant and community clinic coordinator.

In order to provide enhanced medical care, she began exploring alternative ways to improve patient health such as Yoga, Ayurveda, and Chinese Medicine. She now has a master of science in Traditional Chinese Medicine, is a certified yoga instructor, and a licensed acupuncturist. In May 2014 she opened her private practice, Evoke Acupuncture, in San Jose, Calif. Her specialties include fertility, mental wellness, and pain management.

Glenn-Milo Santos MPH ’08 (Epidemiology/Biostatistics) writes, “I received the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award through the NIH High Risk-High Reward program. The project will evaluate the efficacy of taking a medication on an as-needed basis, to reduce binge drinking and alcohol-associated sexual risk behaviors.”

Tania Tang MPH ’02 writes, “I completed my PhD in epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and currently work at Kaiser Permanente Southern California in the Department of Research and Evaluation managing Care Improvement Research Team projects.”

1990s LaMar Hasbrouck MD, MPH ’90 was appointed executive director of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) effective February 10, 2015. NACCHO’s mission is to be a leader, partner, catalyst, and voice with local health departments working towards a vision of health, equity, and security for all people in their communities. Hasbrouck was most recently the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Gail D. Hughes DrPH ’98, MPH ’85 (Epidemiology) is currently a professor at the University of Western Cape in (Bellville) Cape Town, South Africa, where she has been since 2010. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia, School of Allied Health Professions and a visiting professor at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. She is an executive board member for the Public Health Association of South Africa and was the scientific chair for its September 2014 annual conference. Hughes is a National Research Foundation-rated scientist in South Africa, and her primary research interest is utilization of medical pluralism by resource-constrained populations for prevention, maintenance, and treatment of non-communicable diseases. In

addition, she serves as a consultant on prevention of mother-to-child transmission programs in sub-Saharan Africa.

Melissa Stafford Jones MPH ’95 was appointed Region IX regional director for the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS). She will serve as a key HHS representative in working with federal, state, territorial, local, and tribal officials on health and social service issues, including implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Katherine Kim MBA, MPH ’96 writes, “I was appointed assistant professor, Healthcare Innovation and Technology, and founding faculty at UC Davis, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. My work focuses on the application of mobile and social technology to improve care coordination and community health.”

Erin Lopes at Scoring Goals for Autism Erin Lopes MPH ’99 writes, “I graduated from the School of Public Health with an MPH in 1999. My adviser was Lee Riley (I was one of his Brazil students). The same year I graduated from UCB I had a son, Tommy, now 14 years old. Tommy was diagnosed with autism in 2002. I’ve been actively involved in the autism community ever since. I live with my family in Philadelphia. I received the Hometown Heroes Award from The Philadelphia Union (professional soccer team) in April 2014 for my work with Scoring Goals For Autism, an annual soccer tournament fundraiser that benefits the Autism Science Foundation.”

Elizabeth J. Mayer-Davis PhD ’92 writes, “My name was Elizabeth (Beth) Mayer when I was a student at Berkeley; I received my PhD in epidemiology there in 1992. I’m now chair of the Department of Nutrition at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (my undergrad degree was in nutrition and I’ve woven the two together over the years). I was a single parent when I was a grad student—I’m now married with five kids (yours, mine and ours).”

Susan J. Penner DrPH ’92, MPH ’89 is the author of Economics and Financial Management for Nurses and Nurse Leaders, 2nd ed. (Springer Publishing Company, 2013). She is also a contributor to the SpringBoard Springer Publishing Company blog. Penner is adjunct faculty at the School of Nursing and Health Professions, University of San Francisco.

Krista M. Perreira PhD ’99 was awarded the 2014 Edward Kidder Graham Faculty Service Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The award recognizes distinguished service to the state, the nation, and the university by a faculty member. Perreira is professor of public policy and associate dean for undergraduate research in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill). She is a health economist who studies disparities in health, education, and economic well-being and interrelationships between family, health, and social policy, especially as they affect immigrant families and their children.

Sybille Rehmet MD, MPH ’92 (Epidemiology) writes, “Worked for Robert Koch-Institute (National Public Health Institute in Germany), German International Cooperation Agency (senior technical advisor), WHO in Cambodia country office in Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Response, then for European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in outbreak preparedness, detection and control, communication, training and capacity strengthening, developing an applied epidemiology training around the Mediterranean, and prepar-

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edness. Now working as an independent consultant with projects in training, biosecurity, risk communication, and networking. Still living in Stockholm, but planning to move further south.”

Kassim Sidibe MD, MPH ’95 is country director at the CDC for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He provides technical and financial support to the Ministry of Health in the implementation of HIV/AIDS programs, including prevention of mother-to-child transmission, HIV prevention among key populations, antiretroviral therapy, HIV care and support, HIV surveillance, and HIV laboratory quality assurance. He supports development of human resources for health through the Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program and provides assistance in disease outbreak investigation such as the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in DRC.

1980s Evelyne de Leeuw PhD, MPH ’86, MSc published two books that contribute to the emerging area of health political science. With Carole Clavier she published Health Promotion and the Policy Process (Oxford University Press) and, with Hans Löfgren and Mick Leahy, Democratizing Health: Consumer Groups in the Policy Process (Edward Elgar Publishing). In the Berkeley spirit, she calls for a deeper political commitment to health.

Amanda L. Golbeck PhD ’83 was an invited keynote speaker at Biostat 2014, the 21st International Scientific Symposium on Biometrics, in Dubrovnik, Croatia. She spoke on statistician Elizabeth L. Scott’s advocacy leadership for social change.

Golbeck is a professor of biostatistics at the School of Public and Community Health Sciences, University of Montana.

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Susan A. Jamerson MPH ’86 (Health Planning and Policy) was appointed executive director for the Washoe Tribal TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) Program as of August 2014. The goal of the Tribal TANF Program is to advance the health, safety, and well-being of the clients served by the program, and to support family self-sufficiency.

Jamerson oversees three program sites in the Sierra Nevada area and five program sites in California. She formerly worked for Lifelong Medical Care as clinic director overseeing two primary care clinics in Contra Costa County, and for Native American Health Center, Inc. as the executive director of a primary care clinic in Oakland.

Janet Leader MPH ’83 (Public Health Nutrition) moved with her husband from Palo Alto to Los Angeles, joining the Community Health Sciences Department at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She is now the associate director of nutrition programs and the associate MPH fieldwork director. She has revived the Nutrition and Health undergraduate course and has a grant to train MPH students to offer nutrition education to high school students in East Los Angeles. In addition, she works with the HRSA MCH Traineeship grant to encourage nutritionists in public health to become proficient in life course nutrition.

Elaine Moquette Magee MPH ’85, RD (Public Health Nutrition) presented at the super session, “Flip the Fear,” at the national conference of the National Association of College and University Food Service. Through her position as Wellness & Performance Nutritionist for Stanford University, she presented on the challenges and lessons learned around serving students with food allergies. The fourth edition of her bestselling book, Tell Me What to Eat If I Have Diabetes, was published this year.

Jerome Michael Manley PsyD, MPH ’87 is the author of The Emeritus: Who Will Rule?, Tides of Time, and The Gene Factor. He has written a few screenplays since his retirement from the federal government.

Tammy Pilisuk MPH ’85 received the bronze medallion from the National Public Health Information Coalition for her health education flyer, “Vaccines for Teens and Preteens.” She is a health educator at the California Department of Public Health. She is also active in APHA Governing Council and volunteers advocacy for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Last summer, she and her husband traveled to Sicily to refresh the Italian she learned during her UC year abroad in college.

Bruce Poulter MPH ’87 writes, “Our business was awarded a half million dollar contract in late 2013 to conduct a Phase 2 Clinical Trial of the efficacy and safety of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for 24 people with chronic treatment resistant PTSD. Marcela Ot’alora G.—my business partner and wife—is the principal investigator. We plan to complete the trial later this year… At this time our clinical site in Boulder, Colo., will be one of 10 or 12 sites for the anticipated FDA approval of Phase 3 Clinical Trials that will hopefully begin in 2016. Based on research to date, this is one of the most promising approaches for decreasing the suffering while increasing the quality of life for people with PTSD.” Laura Roche MPH ’86 writes, “Most recently I was adjunct faculty, maternal/child health working as a clinical instructor for Dominican University of California. I supervised and taught eight to nine BS nursing students in labor/ delivery, postpartum, wellborn and intensive care nursery at Kaiser Santa Rosa. I taught for five years and now am looking for work as a labor/delivery nurse.

I want to work part time as I’m entering a two-year DrPH program through Walden University. I’ve lived in Forestville, near Santa Rosa, in a cedar log home on three acres overlooking vineyards, Mt.

St. Helena, and the Mayacamas Range. I love the nearby redwoods and coastline.

I really enjoy living in Sonoma wine country. I’m single and live with my two kitties, Wanda and Sophie.”

Marc Sapir MD, MPH ’87 (Epidemiology) writes, “After doing UCB Epi, I served as the first medical director of the Center for Elders’ Independence PACE (comprehensive team based care for frail elders) in the East Bay for 9+ years. At 60 I decided I had maxed out. The program was stable. From 2002 I worked half time doing primary care with Alameda County Medical Center in their outpatient clinic in Hayward. Now 73, I’ve retired from regular patient care. In 2009-10 I toured the U.S., then California as one of the Mad as Hell Doctors for Single Payer Health Care. Today I no longer think single payer is achievable in the U.S.’s political chaos. I’m spending more time working on the campaign to end Israeli apartheid and U.S.’s role in state terror. When I can, I write: fiction, plays, non-fiction. We still backpack the Sierras, travel, cross country ski; spend much time with grandchildren.”

Robert Tyminski DMH, MS ’83, a clinical professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry at UCSF, has published The Psychiatry of Theft and Loss: Stolen and Fleeced (Routledge, 2014). In the book, Tyminski explores the many dimensions of stealing, and in particular how they relate to a subtle balance of loss versus gain that operates in all of us.

1970s Brent Green PhD, MPH ’76 writes, “I’m a Cal grad, School of Public Health, Leadership in Community Mental Health Program, 1976. I published a letter to the editor in The Nation magazine on partnerships and collaboration in health care (at Kaiser Permanente).”

A. Eugene Washington MD, MSc, MPH ’75, was honored by the Association of American Medical Colleges with the David E. Rogers Award for his outstanding contributions to academic medicine. Washington has held posts with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three academic health centers, and multiple professional and government boards and committees. He served as founding chair of the Board of Governors of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute from 2010 to 2013. In April 2015 he became Duke University’s chancellor for health affairs and the president and chief executive officer of the Duke University Health System.

1960s John McGuire PhD ’69 writes, “Rosemary (LCSW) and I (Cal Philosophy BA 1963 and Biostat PhD, 1969) are enjoying retirement, our 55th year of marriage, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, volunteer work, and memories of fruitful and enjoyable careers, thanks in great part to David Blackwell, Chin Long

Chang, Jacob Yerushalmy, Loeve, Raphael Michelangelo Robinson, Jacobus Von TenBroek, Judith Kingsley, Styles Hall, Married Student Housing, etc. at Cal.”

1950s Glenn I. Hildebrand MPH ’57 is helping to update the California Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan, moving it forward to 2020. A large cadre of cancer experts from throughout the state is participating in this important process. Hildebrand serves on the advisory council and is a former chair of the California Dialogue on Cancer. He also serves as the membership chair for the California Public Health Association-North.

1940s S. Malvern Dorinson MD, BS ’42 writes, “I graduated with a BS in public health in May 1942. At that time there was no School of Public Health. We were prepared to be either epidemiologists and/or lab directors. I could have been city health officer in Oakland. However, I chose to go on and received an MD at UCSF in February 1946. I specialized in physical medicine and rehabilitation in San Francisco these many years and am still practicing part time today.”

PUBLIC HEALTH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Board of Directors 2014–2015 PRESIDENT

Baljeet Sangha MPH ’10 VICE PRESIDENT

Sheila S. Baxter MPH ’10 SECRETARY-TREASURER

Michelle Loya-Talamantes MPH ’04 PAST PRESIDENT

Rob Tufel MPH ’90, MSW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Eileen Pearl

BOARD MEMBERS

Catherine Carpenter PhD, MPH ’87 Myrna Cozen MPH ’89 Adam Crawley MPH ’11 Jacob Eapen MD, MPH ’85 Rosa Vivian Fernandez MPH ’91 Victoria George MPH ’82 Aiyanna Johnson MPH ’09, BA ’04 Daniel Madrigal MPH ’10 Brian Raymond MPH ’83 John J. Troidl PhD ’01, MBA Ashby Wolfe MD, MPP, MPH ’08 Evaon Wong-Kim PhD, MSW, MPH ’90

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Chin Long Chiang

Robert C. Cooper

Professor Emeritus

Professor Emeritus

Chin Long Chiang died in his Berkeley home on April 1, 2014, at the age of 99. Chiang was born in 1914 in Ninbo, Zheijiang Province, China. He attended UC Berkeley and earned a master’s degree in 1948 and a PhD in 1953, both in statistics.

He was one of the world’s preeminent biostatisticians who transformed the health care field through the use of statistical methods. Chiang was a member of the UC Berkeley faculty for more than 40 years and served as chair of the Biostatistics Division at the School of Public Health, and as co-chair of the UC Berkeley Interdepartmental Group in Biostatistics. When he retired in 1987, the University honored him with the Berkeley Citation. He continued to teach and give lectures after his retirement. During the 1950s, Chiang was among the first to recognize biostatistics as a separate entity from statistics and to apply mathematical and statistical methods to the realms of health and disease.

Memorial donations may be sent to the Chin Long Chiang Graduate Student Support Fund, which supports high-achieving graduate students at the School of Public Health, with particular preference for PhD students in biostatistics. Checks should be made payable to the UC Berkeley Foundation with “Chin Long Chiang Fund” noted on the check. You may use the enclosed envelope or make your gift online at give.berkeley.edu/chiang.

Robert C. Cooper died at his home in Martinez, California, on February 17, 2015. Cooper was born in San Francisco in 1928 and grew up in Alameda, California. He received a BS in public health from Berkeley in 1952. He then received an MS in microbiology and public health from Michigan State University in 1953, followed by three years in the Medical Service Corps of the U.S. Army. He returned to Michigan State, where he received a PhD in 1958. As a member of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health’s faculty for more than 30 years, Cooper taught three generations of environmental engineers and environmental health microbiologists about the relationship between managing water and wastewater and the control of infectious diseases. He served as director of the Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Health Research Laboratory from 1980 to 1991. Cooper retired from the Berkeley faculty in 1991 and became vice president of Biovir Laboratories in Benicia, California.

The following alumni deaths were reported to the School of Public Health between January 1, 2014, and March 31, 2015: Ted O. Agu

Antoinette M. Conrad

Charles N. Howard MPH ’64

Thomas L. Austin DMD, MPH ’71

Robert C. Cooper PhD, BS ’52

Colin P. Hubbard MD, BS ’54

Ray Barnhart BS ’53

Lois N. Damiani MPH ’70

Harold C. Jaussi MPH ’68

Dorothy M. Barta MPH ’76

Judith P. Dobbins BS ’57

Margo D. Kerrigan MPH ’78

Pauline J. Benton

Carol A. Ervin MPH ’85

Brock T. Ketcham MD, MPH ’75

Dorothy Bickford BA ’41

Barbara J. Evans BS ’50

Paul L. Kuhn MD, MPH ’67

James H. Billings PhD, MPH ’75

Garold L. Faber MD, MPH ’55

Jane A. Lev MPH ’89

Virginia Y. Blacklidge MD, MPH ’64

Cynthia A. Hales MPH ’85

Flora E. Maclise BA ’43

Carl F. Coffelt MD, MPH ’65

Shirley B. Hawley BS ’59

Stuart J. Marylander MPH ’56, BS ’53

Dorothy Comstock BS ’45

Frances Hoffman MPH ’65

Charles S. McCammon MD, MPH ’53

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Professor Emeritus Michael Tarter died at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, California, on May 10, 2014, at the age of 75. Tarter was born on December 20, 1938, in St. Mary’s Park in the Bronx, New York. He received his BA and MA in mathematics and his PhD in biostatistics from UCLA. After serving as a faculty member at the University of Michigan and UC Irvine, he joined UC Berkeley in 1972, and remained at the School of Public Health for the length of his career. In the 1970s, Tarter was a pioneer of the application of computational methods in statistics who co-wrote a series of influential papers on the use of Fourier series for density function estimation. Later in his career, he used his expertise in risk and demographic statistics and biometrical data analysis to contribute to food safety and food contamination research, as well as agricultural worker safety. Tarter was elected as a Fellow of the National American Statistical Association in 1971.

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Krikor Soghikian MD, MPH ’58

Marvin G. Messex MPH ’71

Jeanne M. St. Pierre MD, MS ’97

William O. Moellmer PhD ’74

Elise C. Stone MS, CHES, BS ’56

Avrom P. Nadell MPH ’63

N. G. Thomson MD, MPH ’88

James W. Owens MD, MPH ’74

Gordon M. Wardlaw MPH ’77

Francis M. Paris MPH ’59

Frank S. Yee BS ’51

Dora Roth-Arkadir MD, PhD ’76

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