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MANAGING MEDICAL MIRACLES New medical technologies have enormous potential to improve health, but who decides which device is appropriate, and who pays? A new center at the School looks for solutions to the complex set of challenges introduced by these medical miracles.

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IS TECHNOLOGY

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Technology can be transformative.

Innovative medical devices, the latest pharmaceuticals, and advances in surgical techniques can save and improve lives.

Dean Stephen M. Shortell

Electronic medical records can decrease medical and prescription errors while increasing patients’ ability to manage their own health. Information technology can connect communities, deliver health care to remote areas, and allow health professionals to exchange knowledge and ideas.

Oftentimes we assume that every technological advance is positive and useful. We want the latest and greatest—especially when we are sick or in need of medical

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care. But simply using technology because it’s available can end up costing our society. It’s important to take a step back and evaluate the efficacy of technological advancements. Are they safe? Are they really helping? Are they cost effective?

We need to ensure that when it comes to technology, we are making healthy choices for the right reasons.

and students to examine our technological choices at home and abroad. You can read about our new Berkeley Center for Health Technology (BCHT), led by Professor James Robinson and funded by a generous start-up grant from Genentech. The center will provide a home for broad research into reducing expenditures while incentivizing innovation in the medical technology arena.

It will complement health reform initiatives to create a National Center for Comparative Effectiveness. This is a vital area, because while medical technologies are developing quickly, the practitioners who utilize the results need help to keep pace with development. BCHT can help make decisions as to which products are most cost-effective and helpful for patients.

BCHT will disseminate its findings to biotech and medical device companies, health insurers, major employers, physicians, policy makers, and the public at large.

This issue highlights the work being done by the School’s faculty members, alumni,

Although artificial limbs and the latest drugs might be the first examples one

thinks of, health technology is a broad field.

Exciting advancements are being made in the field of telehealth, which brings medical resources to remote and underserved regions. In this area we spotlight our distinguished alumna Sandra Shewry, M.S.W., M.P.H. ’81, who recently left her position as director of California’s Department of Health Services to lead the new California Center for Connected Health, which focuses on telehealth in our state. Our “Student Spotlight” features Terrence Lo, Dr.P.H. ’09, who is evaluating the efficacy of telemedicine in rural India, under the guidance of adjunct professor Julia Walsh.

Although health and medicine may not be the first topics that come to mind when you think of the Internet, its power as a resource and a communication tool is being increasingly harnessed to build healthier communities. An example of this effort is the research of clinical professor Deryk Van Brunt, Dr.P.H. ’97, which led to the creation

of a web-based information system, the Healthy Communities Network. This Internet tool is already producing results in pilot communities, including Marin and San Francisco Counties.

Health information technology is a critical part of President Obama’s strategy to reform our health care system, and nearly $20 billion of his recent stimulus package is being directed towards health IT. This is an exciting time in the area of health technology, and we look forward to sharing our work with you in the future.

Stephen M. Shortell, Ph.D., M.P.H. Dean, School of Public Health Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy & Management Professor of Organization Behavior

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Replacing worn out hips and knees, bolstering ailing arteries with stents, and regulating heart function with electronic devices—procedures that were once cutting edge—are now commonplace.

New biochemical therapies for beating back cancer arrive on the market every year, as do diagnostic tools that can disclose genetic predispositions to diseases or offer images that reveal sources of pain or malfunction.

Unprecedented innovation, especially in biotechnology, medical devices, and advanced diagnostics, has catapulted medicine into a new era.

This all comes with both significant costs and enormous benefits, notes James C. Robinson, Ph.D., M.P.H. ’81, Kaiser Permanente Professor of Health Economics and director of the new Berkeley Center for Health Technology (BCHT). “New medical technologies offer great opportunity to improve the health and well-being of patients with severe diseases,” says Robinson, “but are also a major driver of the rise in the cost of health care. We need to encourage, and pay more for, appropriate uses of biomedical innovations while we discourage, and pay less for, inappropriate uses.”

for industry leaders, as well as new course offerings for Berkeley students.

Robinson and colleague Kim Solomon, M.B.A., M.P.H. ’94, associate director of professional development for the center, are well-positioned to understand the challenges that come with medical innovation. Robinson’s interest in the economics of technological innovation led him to design the statewide Value Assessment and Purchasing of Medical Devices project for the Integrated Healthcare

School in January 2006 as a lecturer and director of the Health Policy and Management (HPM) master’s program, she was a management consultant with expertise in the financing and services sectors of health care. For Solomon, work with BCHT will provide opportunities to look at specific innovations—new drugs, new biologics, new devices—and how each of these will affect the system.

BALANCING COMPETING INTERESTS While members of each health care sector have a passion for the potential good of new clinical technology, cohesion is often lost when it comes to marketing, financing, purchasing, reimbursing, and regulating these innovations.

BERKELEY RISES TO THE CHALLENGE

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The Berkeley Center for Health Technology was established with generous start-up funding from Genentech, one of the most prominent firms in the biotechnology industry and a longtime supporter of the University.

BCHT’s mission is twofold: First, it aims to address opportunities and challenges associated with incorporating medical innovations into the standard of care. Second, the center seeks to promote methods of payment that reward innovations while reducing expenditures for less effective treatments. To that end, the center will sponsor roundtables and conferences, conduct case studies and quantitative research, and develop professional education programs

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Association. (See page 9.) He spent academic year 2007–2008 in Washington, D.C., as editor in chief of the nation’s top health policy journal Health Affairs, and continues to serve as contributing editor in charge of the journal’s new TechWatch section.

Solomon’s passion for this research area builds upon a strong background in health care reimbursement. Before returning to the

Taken in an economic context of supply and demand, the American population is aging and business is booming. However, the demand side of the health care system— which includes physicians, hospitals, employers, and insurers—has not developed the mechanisms needed to assess the value of what the medical device and pharmaceutical companies are supplying continued on page 6

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MANAGING MEDICAL MIRACLES, continued from page 5 so rapidly and in such great volume. This uncertainty has become a source of misunderstanding and often mistrust.

For example, there may be several choices of artificial knee kits produced by competing companies, but a surgeon must choose just one and could base that decision on any number of factors. Because physicians often have only loose affiliations with a hospital, they have little incentive to share their reasons. Yet it is the hospital that must pay for the devices, and its ability to obtain a competitive price from the manufacturer is hampered if different surgeons insist on using different brands and thereby undermine volume purchasing.

There are also disputes over appropriate use of biopharmaceuticals and medical devices.

Mounting evidence suggests that some who could benefit enormously from new drugs, devices, and diagnostics aren’t getting them, while others who aren’t likely to benefit are using them. Huge disparities exist in rates of

“The whole point is to bring together disparate viewpoints,” says Solomon. “It’s a way of finding neutral ground and trying to have productive conversations, rather than everybody defaulting to their traditional positions.”

From there, relationships are forged that extend into involvement in the second stage of research activity: case studies of best practices in leading health plans, hospital systems, and technology firms. This will involve spending some time at each organization.

In order to balance what he calls “the competing claims of access and affordability,” Robinson proposes a cultural shift. “The relationship among the sectors would move from the contemporary ‘hand-off’ of responsibility from manufacturers to insurers at the time of product launch,” he suggests, “to a framework where manufacturers have greater insight and input into post-launch decisions and insurers have greater insight and input into pre-launch decisions.

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Next the center will conduct data-based analyses assessing the range and impact of management strategies for new technologies

across different technology companies, hospitals, or health plans.

The first data-based study for the center, recently funded by the California HealthCare Foundation, will examine patterns and determinants of costs, complications, insurance payments, and other factors for approximately 80,000 patients undergoing any of 14 orthopedic or cardiac procedures in California hospitals in 2008. These data are being collected by the IHA’s value purchasing project for continued on page 8

“Manufacturers need better information on the coverage, reimbursement, and benefit design strategies pursued by health insurers,” he explains, “while insurers need better information on the pipeline of new products, likely patterns of use, and potential pricing and distribution methods.”

This is where Robinson believes the new center can help. As an academic entity, BCHT will offer

The idea is to stimulate research and implement new methods for managing innovation. use and expenditure across geographic areas and depending on a patient’s insurance coverage. Continued progress against cancer, auto-immune conditions, and other serious illnesses requires continued financial investments, but purchasers and consumers feel drug prices are high as it is.

“The key point is to get under the hood, as it were, to understand the opportunities and the obstacles,” says Robinson. One organization may be proud to tell its success story; another may be experiencing difficulties and therefore be interested in having outside researchers come in, study what it is doing, and give feedback.

data-supported analyses and a neutral ground where cross-sector industry leaders can assess workable solutions to real world challenges.

The center will work closely with leaders from each sector—biotech and medical device firms, health insurance plans, and health care delivery organizations—to research and make available knowledge concerning new technologies and develop new methods for coverage, reimbursement, and management.

“The idea is to stimulate research and implement new methods for managing innovation,” says Robinson. “We seek new methods of payment, new forms of insurance, and new forms of clinical management of drugs and devices to get better outcomes for the patients and for the system as a whole.”

THREE-STAGE RESEARCH STRATEGY Innovation by definition means change, and the study of innovation itself requires innovative research techniques. “The unique challenge to this research is that the methods by which health plans and hospitals seek to manage new technologies change very rapidly,” says Robinson. “Additionally, the drugs and devices that are on the market change very rapidly.” Relying only on traditional research methods, which use existing data sources or involve gathering large samples of new data, would be time consuming and thereby risk rendering results irrelevant. By the time the research was done, a product or device might no longer be on the market.

To accommodate these circumstances, BCHT will pursue a research strategy consisting of three stages: identification of leading organizations and methods; in-depth case studies; and analyses of data covering large populations.

The most basic need is to identify the most creative methods for coverage, payment, and management that are being used by leading health insurers, delivery systems, and/or product manufacturers. To identify these best practices, the center will convene one-day roundtables on particular dimensions of technology management, focusing on issues where there is the potential for cooperation and mutual benefit among the different health care sectors. The roundtables will involve approximately 25 people who often do not see eye to eye, and therein lies the value.

Susan Desmond-Hellmann:

Improving Patients’ Lives on a Broad Scale Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H. ’88 is driven by the desire to improve therapies for cancer patients. She’d like to see cancer become a manageable chronic disease rather than a fatal one in her lifetime.

As president of product development for Genentech in South San Francisco— which helped establish the School’s new center, the Berkeley Center for Health Technology (see page 4)—she has been a key force bringing innovative drugs to cancer patients, including Rituxan, Herceptin, Avastin, and Tarceva.

Desmond-Hellmann recently stepped down from her position at Genentech, where she served in various roles since 1995, including clinical scientist, chief medical officer, and executive vice president of development and product operations. In May 2009, she was named chancellor of UCSF. Her appointment begins on August 3, 2009.

Regarding her new role, Desmond-Hellmann said, “The most important thing to me throughout my entire career, whether as physician or manager or clinical scientist, has been to work on things that truly matter for patients, and this new role has the potential to make an even larger impact on patients through all aspects of UCSF’s mission.”

Desmond-Hellmann has received well-deserved recognition throughout her career. The Wall Street Journal ranked her sixth of its “50 Women to Watch” in 2005, and Fortune magazine included her among the “50 Most Powerful Women” in 2001 and 2003-2008. The Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association named Desmond-Hellmann its 2006 “Woman of the Year.” She was named to the Biotech Hall of Fame in 2007 and was appointed to the California Academy of Sciences Board of Trustees in 2008.

Desmond-Hellmann is board-certified in internal medicine and medical oncology and completed her clinical training at UCSF. She earned her master’s degree in epidemiology and biostatistics from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, where she began planning a research project on the epidemiology of patents with Kaposi’s sarcoma, a viral cancer prevalent among AIDS patients.

On April 9, Desmond-Hellmann returned to the UC Berkeley campus to deliver the 2009 Edward E. Penhoet Lecture on Biology, Behavior, and Environment—named for Chiron cofounder and former School of Public Health dean Edward Penhoet. Her talk focused on the public health implications of advances in biotechnology. She formerly cochaired the steering committee for the School’s fundraising effort, The Campaign for the School of Public Health.

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MANAGING MEDICAL MIRACLES, continued from page 7 benchmarking and supply chain management, but will be transferred to the University for research purposes. Individual patients and hospitals will not be identified, but the detailed data will permit separating out the effects of disease severity and disability from the economic factors such as hospital scale, purchasing strategy, and insurance contracting.

Other research topics will include coverage and reimbursement for new drugs; methods of payment for physicians and hospitals; insurance design and cost-sharing requirements

and biomedical technology as it conducts professional development workshops for senior staff within biotechnology, health care delivery, and related sectors. The workshops can be tailored to the internal needs of specific organizations on both sides of the development and purchasing continuum.

Management program and found much value in a summer internship at Genentech, planning product launches into the managed care marketplace. The following year she took a full-time position within the Managed Care Marketing group and has been working in various capacities at Genentech ever since.

Current master’s and doctoral students will have the opportunity to serve as graduate student researchers for particular projects and take related courses, such as Robinson’s Health Care Technology Policy course.

“My internship, in addition to allowing me to apply my educational background to work in a corporate environment, gave me an opportunity to assess, in a short period of time, that Genentech was a good fit for me,” says Schmutzler.

The center will tap into the wealth of campus expertise in insurance, health care organization, and biomedical technology.

for patients; and medical management methods that seek to ensure that the right patient is getting the right treatment.

EDUCATING CURRENT AND FUTURE LEADERS While BCHT is primarily a research entity, it is also committed to sponsoring educational activities that expand the knowledge base of health care industry leaders, as well as current students enrolled in graduate degree programs in public health, business administration, and public policy at Berkeley.

The center will tap into the wealth of campus expertise in insurance, health care organization,

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As director of professional development for the BCHT, Solomon will also develop postgraduate fellowship opportunities and enhance existing field placement opportunities. Historically, the majority of the School of Public Health’s postgraduate fellowships have been in the service and delivery sector at large hospital systems. However, the center recognizes great potential for students also to explore careers in biotechnology and device companies.

The center’s first sponsor, Genentech, has taken on a number Berkeley students, both as summer interns and as permanent employees, with great success. School of Public Health alumna Amanda Schmutzler, M.P.H. ’04, was in the Health Policy and

As a hiring manager within the Managed Care Marketing Group, Schmutzler sees new graduates bringing a strong understanding of the inner workings of the health care system to their new jobs. She adds, “Biotechnology is definitely a relevant area of work for an HPM student, the sector is growing, and the products are impacting patients’ lives.”

Solomon is also enthusiastic about creating career connections. This past semester, for example, the center sponsored a half-day workshop on policy approaches to the regulation of biosimilars, biopharmaceuticals that seek to replicate the functions without having the identical structures of biologics already on the market in a manner analogous to the role of generics for traditional non-biologic drugs. The workshop brought together 50 graduate students to analyze and argue the various sides of the biosimilars debate, which has been launched recently by the Obama administration, with input from staff and executives from BCHT, Genentech, and Blue Shield of California.

Says Solomon, “If we educate students more thoroughly on current topics, if we employ them as researchers to allow them to gain practical skills and knowledge, and if we foster relationships with biotechnology and medical device firms, our students will more readily find good employment and the employers will get better-prepared, better-informed graduates who can contribute to their organization that much more quickly. It’s a symbiotic situation, a win-win.”

Working Together to Turn

RESEARCH INTO ACTION

The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), an Oakland-based nonprofit committed to improving the efficiency and quality of health care in California, is a key partner working with the new Berkeley Center for Health Technology (BCHT).

BCHT’s research—which draws upon real world data and can be used to influence decisions made by corporate, policy, and professional leaders—is a natural fit with IHA’s action-oriented, change-implementing activities. BHCT’s offices will be housed adjacent to IHA’s in downtown Oakland to facilitate cooperation between the two organizations.

One of IHA’s programs, Value Assessment and Purchasing of Medical Devices, presents a particularly promising opportunity for collaboration. The program will gather and analyze data on 14 high-volume and high-cost procedures performed in California hospitals each year and will include a series of roundtables addressing best purchasing practices. IHA is also piloting a “episode-of-care” payment method for these complex procedures, offering a single bundled payment for the physicians’ services, the hospital’s costs, the cost of the medical devices themselves, and the cost of rehabilitation care received by the patient after discharge from the hospital.

Already known for its work on physician pay-for-performance, IHA was looking for a project that would engage California hospitals, explains Tom Williams, IHA’s executive director (and a current doctoral candidate at the School). “By addressing the increasing financial burden placed upon hospitals by the dramatic uptake of wonderful but expensive

new medical devices,” he says, “we get at a problem the hospitals care about deeply, and one that also affects health care affordability for everyone.”

“The project targets procedures involving what are called ‘physician preference items’— artificial knees, hips, spinal, and cardiac implants,” explains program director Weslie Kary, M.P.P., M.P.H. ’06. “For each of these procedures, the device represents a

very significant portion of the total cost of the procedure. Somewhere between 30 and 80 percent of the reimbursement that the hospital receives from the insurer for everything that happened to the patient can be consumed by the device cost.”

Because these devices are chosen by the physicians, it is especially challenging for hospitals to manage spending in this area.

“The hospitals are placed between a rock and a hard place when reimbursement is fixed, as it is for a Medicare patient,” Kary says.

“With commercial payers, hospitals are often successful in carving device cost out of their negotiated rates. That’s why this topic also resonates with health plans—since their costs go up directly with device price increases.

“It has been difficult for hospitals to obtain really reliable benchmark information so that they can compare how they are doing,” adds Kary. “They need help to build a comprehensive, external view of what is going on with implant costs.”

The program is the collective brainchild of hospital representatives on the IHA board of directors and James C. Robinson, Ph.D., M.P.H. ’81, BCHT’s executive director and a long-time IHA board member. It is funded by a grant from the Blue Shield of California Foundation. BCHT will be involved with both the data analysis and best practice identification phases of the program, complementing IHA’s applied work. The center will have the academic wherewithal to understand the economic forces driving the market, and to identify and publish on best practices to address those forces in a constructive way.

“IHA brings the stakeholders to the table to talk about shared problems, understand best practices, try out new ideas—but we’re not in a position to conduct real-time rigorous academic analysis of what is going on,” says Kary. “That’s why BCHT’s work will be a very valuable adjunct to the project.”

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IMPROVING COMMUNITY HEALTH VIA THE WEB

By Linda Anderberg

If there’s one thing public health professionals have in common, it’s that they are driven to approach problems “upstream.” Improving the treatment options for people who have chronic diseases is great; preventing people from getting chronic diseases is even better.

In addition to teaching part-time at the School as a clinical professor for more than a decade, health and tech expert Deryk Van Brunt, Dr.P.H. ’97, has worked with nonprofit and private companies to provide online access to medical information for patients and physicians.

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His résumé includes some virtual heavy hitters: HealthCentral.com, eMedicine, and iMetrikus. Van Brunt has had great success helping to create these online medical resources, but eventually he wanted to take things a step further.

“There’s been a huge consumption of online personal medical information,” says Van Brunt. “However, by definition, this type of information has a limited impact on health outcomes. We need to move upstream to disease prevention. The question becomes, how do we use information technology to improve the social and physical environment in which we live, and positively affect lifestyle?”

This is a good question, because up to 70 percent of the determinants of health across a population stem from lifestyle and the environment. In contrast, quality of

and access to medical care determine only 10 to 15 percent of our health status.

“Not to take anything away from how important medical care and genomics are— especially when we get sick—but across a population a bigger part of the equation that we need to crack is getting at lifestyle and environmental issues,” says Van Brunt. “That said, with few exceptions, we’ve not done a good job at that. We spend roughly 99 percent of our money over on the medical side and only one percent on prevention and community health.”

CHANGE ON A COMMUNITY LEVEL With help from a 2002 grant from Jennifer Maxwell, who cofounded PowerBar with her late husband Brian Maxwell, Van Brunt and colleagues at UC Berkeley and Harvard set out to learn how IT could be used to better understand health measures and manage the health of people in their communities. They formed the Healthy Communities Institute, of which Van Brunt is the chairman. The organization’s mission is to help counties and regions improve the health and environmental sustainability of their communities, in the United States and internationally.

One of the first challenges Van Brunt and his team came across was very fundamental— how do communities change? While various agencies and organizations collect a wide range of data—health, environmental, economic, and so on—it remains difficult for stakeholders in communities to find this data, understand it, and take concrete action to improve their areas of interest.

“If what you want to do is empower a community to build a healthier environment, you need to understand how change occurs.

You can’t just put up information and expect great changes to occur,” says Van Brunt.

So in addition to drawing on literature and conducting interviews of health experts and information technology experts, Van Brunt’s team also became well versed in change theory. They learned that, for most changes to occur, community stakeholders need to be aware of an issue, understand its severity to the community and themselves, be able to

The dashboard can give instant feedback on how a community is performing in a particular area.

communicate with others locally and have support in making decisions, know how to operationalize their decisions, and be able to track or record their results.

“We thought, if we’re going to build something, it should help communities do all these things,” says Van Brunt. “So we said, what could we build that would support these factors, and we came up with all kinds of ideas.”

They honed the ideas and eventually created a web-based information system, the Healthy Communities Network (HCN), which provides an easy to understand presentation layer of health, environmental, and other quality of life indicators for community stakeholders such as boards of supervisors, mayors, health departments, hospital councils, and others.

It also links people in the community to promising practices and many other resources to help them move from a community report card to informed action.

A DASHBOARD FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH HCN contains roughly 20 capabilities or applications, but two of them are the anchors.

The first is a color-coded dashboard that has more than 100 health, environmental, and quality of life indicators that provide a visual representation of what’s working and not working in any given community.

“I call it the 747 panel phenomenon,” says Van Brunt. “You can see everything that’s going on in a snapshot.”

The dashboard can give instant feedback on how a community is performing in a particular area. Scrolling down to Health: Communicable Diseases: Tuberculosis Incidence Rate, for example, will show you that San Francisco is “in the red” in this area. That means that San continued on page 12

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“We can provide a breakout by race and neighborhood, if the data is dense enough,” says Van Brunt. “So, in San Francisco, you can see immediately that the incidence rates of TB are particularly high with Asian/Pacific Islanders, and you can see by neighborhood that it’s clustered in the Tenderloin, South of Market, and Chinatown.”

He adds, “It’s an information system that promotes transparency and accountability in the community.”

be collected in organizational silos and was often only reported on paper or in static reports online.

A GOOD “BEST PRACTICE” IS HARD TO FIND

“I’ve been working on this for eight years,” says Van Brunt. “And the biggest surprise for me was that no comprehensive ‘best practices’ database existed. I didn’t want to build one.

I went to various government and nonprofit agencies, I went all over the place, and nobody had it.”

One key for promoting change is for stakeholders to have easy access to information about promising practices already performed by other communities to address health problems.

But in the course of his research, Van Brunt discovered that most of the information about communities and best practices tended to

So Van Brunt and his team compiled a best practices database themselves. The HCN

database now contains more than 1,000 promising practices, and “we just add to it every day,” says Van Brunt. Each best practice is ranked for methodological rigor and is succinctly summarized. The best practices are contextually linked throughout the information system. For instance, if you are looking at the high tuberculosis incidences rate in San Francisco, a single click will take you to a summary of a successful Suffolk County Department of Health Services program whose goal was to reduce rates of TB in foreign-born populations.

3 million lives have signed up in the United States, and growth is accelerating.

“What we developed is an information system that’s a template,” Van Brunt says. “You can

launch it for any community that wants to use it. My vision is that communities can turn it on throughout the United States, and over time internationally.”

A TEMPLATE FOR CHANGE

Health Knowledge Travels with WiRED On March 18, 2009, the UC Berkeley School of Public Health presented the Organizational Public Health Hero award to WiRED International for its achievements in using information technology to provide up-to-date health education and medical information in developing, post-conflict, and isolated regions of the world.

Robert Corrigan (left), president of San Francisco State University, presents the 2009 UC Berkeley Public Health Hero Award to WiRED International, represented by executive director Gary Selnow.

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WiRED International’s mission is to ensure equal access to information that saves lives. Providing equipment, coordination, and contacts, it brings vital information to communities coping with the challenges of war, poverty, and dislocation. Within a single day, WiRED can convert an empty room into a technology hub with global reach.

Executive director Gary Selnow (a professor at San Francisco State University) began WiRED’s work in 1997 while serving as a Fulbright Fellow at Croatia’s University of Zagreb just following the Balkan War. Selnow was moved by the war’s impact on the region’s children, who were without adequate educational resources and had no access to basic computer technologies. With a small seed grant from USAID, he launched WiRED—inspired by the idea that access to the Internet could help end the children’s isolation and enhance their education. That idea evolved into a larger effort to provide medical education and information resources for health care educators and practitioners in troubled regions.

WiRED’s technology information centers have served some one million people annually at nearly 100 locations in 12 countries on four continents. WiRED’s Medical Information Centers supply isolated doctors and other health care professionals with computers, Internet access, and other technology; medical curricula; and collaboration with well-trained doctors in developed countries. WiRED’s Community Health Information Centers connect people at the grassroots level to interactive computer-based information—often the only source of health information available to them.

Healthy Communities Institute has launched HCNs in San Francisco and Marin Counties in California and Whatcom County in Washington state, which have served as test communities for the system. Today communities encompassing more than

The Wiki Way to Health The UC Berkeley School of Public Health has teamed with Internet entrepreneurs, doctors, researchers, and other health professionals to create Medpedia (www.medpedia.com), an online medical encyclopedia that will likely become the Web’s largest body of medicine and health information. Modeled after Wikipedia, the online resource is written and edited only by trained health professionals and organizations. The site was launched publicly on February 17, 2009.

The School signed on to help build Medpedia’s comprehensive medical clearinghouse, along with Harvard Medical School, Stanford University School of Medicine, and the University of Michigan Medical School. John Swartzberg, M.D., professor and chair

of the editorial board of the UC Berkeley Wellness Letter, provided advice and guidance during the planning stages of the project.

School of Public Health Dean Stephen Shortell said, “Our work with Medpedia will expand our commitment to provide the most current evidence-based health information to the widest possible audiences.”

The site will eventually have web pages for more than 30,000 diseases and conditions, more than 10,000 prescription drugs, thousands of medical procedures, and millions of medical facilities. These pages will provide insight into the latest health and medical discoveries along with photographs, video, sound, and images.

www.medpedia.com “In recent years, we have witnessed the benefit that a web site like Wikipedia can have on all knowledge,” said James Currier, Medpedia founder and chairman. “With ongoing experimentation and guidance from the medical community, Medpedia could provide a similar benefit to the world in the specialized area of health and medicine.”

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Student Spotlight: Terrence Lo

EVALUATING TELEMEDICINE CLINICS IN RURAL INDIA

By Christopher E. Bush

A young woman sits in front of a computer in a small room in an Indian village, speaking via web cam with a doctor hundreds of miles away in New Delhi. She’s able to ask about a health problem she’s been having, as well as get family planning advice. With the help of the clinic manager, the doctor can check her blood pressure and temperature, the data all transmitted via satellite.

“Two were in tiny bottles with no labels.

Another was an antibiotic, but the recommended dose on the packaging was too low for this child, and the supply would only last a day and a half. It was an excessive variety of medicine.

It drove home for me the poor quality and excess care this woman faced.

Terrence Lo, Dr.P.H. ’10, believes the future is now when it comes to innovative health care in some villages. He’s researching a telemedicine project that may revolutionize public health in poor, underdeveloped areas of Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest—and one of its poorest—provinces.

To address the shortage of affordable health care, one India-based non-governmental organization (NGO), World Health Partners, is taking an innovative approach. “World Health Partners looks for rural families to invest in its telemedicine system,” explains Lo. “These families act as entrepreneurs, setting up a medical clinic. By investing in the system, they have a vested interest in promoting it as well as maintaining required standards.”

With almost 190 million people, 75 percent of whom live in rural areas and make less than US$290 per year, Uttar Pradesh faces a large shortage of trained medical personnel.

Although India graduates 30,000 doctors per year, there are not enough to serve its 1.1 billion people, and few are willing to work in poor rural areas, where the majority of households still lack electricity and running water. As a result, many villagers have no access to competent care and basic public health services, such as family planning.

Residents in rural Uttar Pradesh desperately need reliable, cost-effective public health care.

Julia Walsh, adjunct professor at the School of Public Health and one of Lo’s advisers, recalls a particular case that impacted her.

“We were walking around and met a grandmother carrying a child between six and

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Terrence Lo presents his work at the School of Public Health Fall Research Symposium.

nine months old,” she says. “She was coming back from the local small city, which was about an hour away, to get help for the infant who was ill and having some difficulty breathing. It had taken the woman an hour to get there and more than an hour of waiting. Then they gave her four different kinds of drugs.

“Just as bad,” Walsh recalls, “it was expensive.

She paid hundreds of rupees for this.”

FRANCHISING HEALTH CARE

The telemedicine project represents a new approach to an old problem. “One of the hot topics in developing countries is how to provide an array of health care services through what’s called social franchising,” says Walsh.

In social franchising models, NGOs create branded services that they then sell to entrepreneurs who provide them in their communities. “It’s an intervention that’s designed to take advantage of market forces,” says Lo. In the case of the Uttar Pradesh telemedicine project, World Health Partners has created and branded telemedicine provision centers (TPCs) called SKY Health Centers. It sells franchises for these TPCs to selected families in the rural

villages. The entrepreneurs invest about $3,000 in buying a franchise and in return are provided with furniture, a computer, satellite equipment, a generator, promotional materials, technical support, and training.

The franchisees are carefully chosen to help meet program goals. Because the telemedicine project especially focuses on women of childbearing age, providing them with basic health care and family planning support, World Health Partners sells the franchises to high-school-educated women who are highly involved in their communities. This helps to overcome some female patients’ reluctance to see or discuss reproductive health issues with male care providers.

INQUIRING MINDS Lo became involved with the telemedicine project because he was looking for a dissertation topic that focused on public health intervention. “My focus and my strength has always been epidemiology,” he says, “but being here at Berkeley has widened my interests. I’m trying to come up with solutions to problems.”

He was introduced to the project by Walsh and Bixby Professor of Population and Family Planning Malcolm Potts, both of whom have worked with World Health Partners president, Gopi Gopalakrishnan, an experienced social entrepreneur, on previous research programs.

Students Nishat Shaikh, Terrence Lo, Kevin Yuen, Brooke Finkmoore, and Dave Dauphine all participated in summer travel fellowships through the School’s Center for Global Public Health.

health services and family planning to those who did not have it before, or are these clinics just another option among many for the same people?”

To begin researching these questions, Lo spent the summer in Uttar Pradesh preparing for evaluations to collect data from two groups of villages, one that does have access to a TPC and a control group that does not. He will next use a combination of focus groups, baseline surveys, and spatial measurements to assess program effectiveness.

“I’m interested to see if only a specific segment of residents will utilize telemedicine and whether or not residents view it as capable of treating them for only specific conditions,” Lo explains. “Because rural India has a range of other health care options available, with a wide variation in quality, I want to look at the impact of these health resources on telemedicine utilization.”

I’m trying to come up with solutions to problems.

Because the telemedicine project is so new— as are social franchising models in general— there isn’t much data on their effectiveness.

“There are two main questions,” says Walsh.

“First, there is the issue of how well do these programs reach the poor. And then there’s the issue of whether they are really providing

OVERCOMING CHALLENGES Lo and Walsh are hoping that an analysis of the telemedicine project will help answer a number of questions about its long-term effectiveness and sustainability. World Health Partners plans to expand the number of TPCs in India, first to 100 and eventually 1,500 sites.

Each of these clinics serves approximately 10 villages with a population of about 20,000.

Once the program has grown, 30 to 40 million residents of Uttar Pradesh will have access to a telemedicine facility.

To be effective, the TPCs need to overcome technical challenges, maintain quality, provide immediate health care benefits, and function at an economically sustainable level. “The first question that needs to be answered is, ‘Does this work?’” says Lo. “The technical issues are really the easy part to work out because we already know how to solve them,” he adds. “The bigger question is how to make it sustainable. That brings into question how people will use the telemedicine clinics. Currently they’re charging 50 rupees per consultation, about US$1.25. Is that going to be the appropriate price point at which people are willing to go to the telemedicine clinic? There’s a lot of promise in the technology, but how is it actually going to be used, who’s going to use it, how will it be adapted and for what purpose? A lot of those questions are unanswered.”

Lo hopes that the research he and others at the School are conducting will help demonstrate the viability of telemedicine clinics to provide good, effective health care in rural India. “When I was reading the proposal for the project, it blew me away,” he says.

“You don’t come across projects like this that are that innovative and that forward-thinking very often.”

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Alumni Spotlight: Sandra Shewry SYNONYMOUS WITH PUBLIC SERVICE FOR CALIFORNIA

By Linda Anderberg

Thanks to Sandra Shewry, M.S.W., M.P.H. ’81, someday soon the best thing on television might be your doctor. Shewry’s convinced that telemedicine and telehealth can be key components in bringing affordable, quality health care to the underserved rural and urban communities in California.

In fact, she left the prestigious job of director of California’s Department of Health Services last December to lead a newly formed initiative, the California Center for Connected Health (CCCH), established by the California HealthCare Foundation.

As a social welfare student at UC Berkeley, Shewry took a public health planning course with Professor Henrik Blum, who taught that effective change can take place through organizations and can then have huge societal impact for good. She really took this message to heart, first by applying to Berkeley’s school of public health and then spending her career in public service. “I have been in public service for twenty-six years of my career,” she says.

“And for eleven of them I was director of a California state department.”

“As the director of the Department of Health Services, you touch the lives of everyone in California,” says Shewry, “through the clean water programs, the food safety programs, and very specifically through the health care services that we organized or financed.”

So why leave that role? Shewry has seen the recent advances in technology and believes they can be transformational in terms of how health care is delivered, the expected outcomes, and the quality of care.

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“I’m concerned that, if we’re not mindful, the poor and underserved in California will get left behind in terms of the roll out of technology and telehealth advances,” says Shewry. “And this is an opportunity to work with a small group of dedicated, passionate, smart people, and try to see what we can do to be sure that doesn’t happen.”

way to make specialty care easily accessible,” says Shewry. Approximately five million people live in rural areas that make up 80 percent of California’s territory; there are shortages of health care providers in 51 of 58 counties.

“Telehealth offers us the opportunity to create linkages between people in those areas and the specialists they need,” she says.

As director of CCCH, Shewry’s mission is to make California a national model for telehealth integration into the health care system.

Telehealth is the broad concept of using technology to connect patients and providers with health care services and one another— delivering services and education when and where they are needed most. This can include medical education, patient outreach, and home monitoring. It could even be an academic medical center linked via live video feed to a surgery that’s going on in a remote location, so that an academic specialist can be a consult to the onsite provider.

For now, telehealth is mainly about linking a provider site to another provider site. Shewry believes we’re on the edge of the future, and that the future will bring health care into the home. This could include blood sugar monitoring, recording weight changes, and measuring lung capacity all from the home. Shewry believes this will help the “aging in place movement” and that it will “enable us to stay independent for much longer as we age.”

“One of the paradoxes in health care delivery is that if we look at the gross statistics, in most specialty areas we probably have enough specialists, but we have a chronic and persistent maldistribution of them,” explains Shewry.

“In many parts of rural California or in densely populated inner cities, we haven’t found a

Shewry’s goals are to think through the policies, regulations, and laws surrounding technology and health, and to identify what needs to change in order to bring telehealth to its full potential, especially for low-income patients. And she plans to get started right away.

“At this phase of the start up, I’m becoming more familiar with the exciting things that are going on in the state in this field,” she says.

“A typical day for me is learning.”

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Rising Above the Tide: $15 million Gift Establishes

New Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability Male circumcision can reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS in parts of Africa by as much as 50 percent.

A low-cost drug originally created to treat stomach ulcers, misoprostol, could save tens of thousands of women’s lives who would otherwise die of postpartum bleeding. Empowering women in developing countries with options regarding childbearing can reduce the level of civil strife and terrorism worldwide.

Professor Malcolm Potts, who has led the Bixby program at the School since becoming its director in 1992, believes that population growth is a key factor in many of the world’s problems. “I think the huge challenge for the human race in the twenty-first century is whether we can move to a biologically sustainable way of life on this planet,” he says. “And population plays an essential role in that.”

Partnering to Solve Population Problems Fred H. Bixby attended UC Berkeley in the 1930s, and provided in his will for the creation of the Fred H. Bixby Foundation in order to support efforts towards solving the problem

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The Bixby Foundation’s latest gift of $15 million will allow Potts to elevate the program he has built to an elite level. “This generous gift will enable our School to significantly expand initiatives in population health,” says Dean Stephen Shortell.

“The impact of the Fred H. Bixby Foundation commitment will be felt around the world for generations to come.”

Ten million dollars of the overall gift will be used to create the new center, which will be anchored in the School of Public Health, but will be recognized as a campuswide center, working in collaboration with the Blum Center for Developing Economies, the Berkeley Center for Global Public Health, the Berkeley Population Center, and other initiatives. The remaining $5 million of the gift will help support a new building for the School of Public Health, in which a wing will be named in honor of Fred H. Bixby.

Researchers in the Bixby Center at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health know that complex world problems can have surprising solutions. What these solutions often have in common is that they are innovative, cost effective, and have the potential to work on a large scale in fast growing, resource-poor communities.

Thanks to a $15 million gift from the Fred H. Bixby Foundation, the School has begun to expand and enrich the current Bixby program, which has become the Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability. The new center will retain the mission of creating a more prosperous, ecologically sustainable, and less divided and conflict-ridden world. It will also highlight the critical impact of population on the global environment, global public health, and civil and international conflict, and help to address the well-documented unmet need for family planning.

and that one of the roles that universities play is to undertake research and action over the long term.”

Success through Student Internships

Adolescent girls from Shika Dam in northern Nigeria, a region where the Bixby Center is working with partners to keep girls in school of overpopulation. The three trustees of the foundation, John Warren, Howard Friedman, and Owen Patotzka, oversaw the foundation’s pledge of $500,000 to establish the Fred H. Bixby Jr. Chair in Population and Family Planning, with the goal of attracting an eminent faculty member to lead the School’s efforts towards creating a premiere program to address the population subject. The School began a search that culminated with Potts’s appointment. A Cambridge trained obstetrician and reproductive biologist, Potts was the first medical director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, where he introduced contraceptive methods into scores of developing countries during his decade-long tenure.

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planning. I saw the endowed chair of the Bixby foundation as a wonderful opportunity to continue that work in the world’s greatest public university,” says Potts, who was named to the chair in 1992.

Over the next 16 years, he built a team of Berkeley students and postgraduates with the goal of broadening the understanding of the population factor and making an impact on policy all around the world.

“The foundation trustees I think have kept very consistently and sincerely to Fred H. Bixby’s goals, which were to help put population on the table and help people around the world make voluntary choices so they can enjoy the benefits of smaller families,” says Potts. “They had the vision that this problem is long-term,

The Bixby Center has achieved remarkable results through its internships. In 1999 and 2003, the Bixby Foundation made gifts in support of students concentrating on population and family planning, allowing fellowship recipients to travel abroad over the summer and conduct research in the field.

Since 2003, a total of 33 Bixby interns have traveled to 20 developing countries, primarily in Africa and Latin America, to conduct research on family planning and reproductive health. In addition to the positive impact in these communities, the interns’ work has led to publications in refereed journals and has enriched courses offered through the Bixby Center with students’ firsthand experiences.

“We send very well-trained master’s and doctoral students who are taking skills and sharing them with colleagues in low-resource countries,” says Potts. “So the interns get an experience, and sometimes individually it changes their lives.”

(Left) A new advertisement promotes emergency contraception availability at the pharmacy in downtown Mekelle, Ethiopia. (Right) Bixby intern Lori Babcock speaks with village elders in eastern Ethiopia.

For some students, the experience can help shape their careers in work related to population and sustainability. This cycle has resulted in a cadre of trained professionals helping to address these problems, upon whom Potts can call to apply the University’s research findings in the real world.

Potts names Lori Babcock, M.P.P., M.P.H. ’08, as a recent shining star of the Bixby internship program, saying “she’s fearless and full of good ideas.” As a Bixby intern, Babcock went to Ethiopia in the summer of 2006 and Nigeria in 2007. In Ethiopia, she worked to improve family planning access in rural areas, especially with the delivery of Depo-Provera, which many women are eager to have. She researched ways to reduce maternal mortality in Northern Nigeria, working in conjunction with Ahmadu Bello University.

“It’s helped me enormously,” Babcock says of her experience with the program. “The two fellowships gave me concrete research experience. Prior to coming to the School of Public Health, I had experience implementing programs in the Peace Corps and with other organizations, but only limited monitoring and evaluation experience.”

After graduating, Babcock began working at Population Services International (PSI) in Washington, D.C., a social marketing organization that addresses the health problems of low-income and vulnerable populations in more than 60 developing countries. “I love my new job—it’s perfect for me,” she says. “I get to work on

improving global health all day every day.

And I’ve been to Africa twice in the past six months. It’s perfect.”

Mission Critical The Bixby Center makes a compelling case for the urgency of addressing population growth, pointing to its underlying contribution to problems such as environmental decline, war, and violence. “All the terrorists come from places where it’s difficult to get birth control,” Potts puts it simply.

Martha Campbell, a Bixby Center lecturer, notes, “We haven’t found a country that has gotten out of poverty while maintaining high birth rates, with the exception of the Persian Gulf nations. Governments of rapidly growing countries simply cannot keep up with the requirements for education and health services when the number of children increases greatly each year. At the same time, there is a huge unmet need for family planning in all the fast-growing countries.”

Potts believes that Berkeley is the only university that has been consistently saying two things: first, that rapid population growth has a lot of deleterious effects, and second, that population growth can be slowed in a human rights framework. “Other universities have gone into much less focus and more diffuse descriptions of this,” he says. “I see the Bixby Center as an opportunity for Berkeley to enhance its leadership in the United States and globally in putting the population growth factor back on the world agenda.”

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Reingold Named Inaugural Holder of Endowed Chair in Global Health and Infectious Diseases Arthur Reingold, associate dean for research at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and head of the School’s Epidemiology Division, has been named the first-ever holder of the Edward E. Penhoet Distinguished Chair in Global Public Health and Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health.

The purpose of the multidisciplinary, rotating five-year chair is to support the teaching, research, and scholarship of an eminent faculty member in the School of Public Health or the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, or a faculty member who has a joint appointment in both departments. The chair was established with $1.5 million in donations from friends and colleagues of professor emeritus and former dean Edward E. Penhoet, and $1.5 million in matching support from the Hewlett Foundation.

“We are very grateful to the many donors and the matching funds from the Hewlett Foundation for creating this endowed chair,” said Dean Stephen Shortell.

“Art Reingold is a superb choice to serve as the first chair holder given his leadership nationally and internationally in combating infectious disease.”

bacterial meningitis, fungal infections, and non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections.

He also worked internationally on epidemic meningitis in West Africa and Nepal.

Since joining the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1987, Reingold has worked on a variety of

emerging and re-emerging infections in the United States; on acute rheumatic fever in New Zealand; and on AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and acute respiratory infections in Brazil, Uganda, Ivory Coast, Zimbabwe, India, and Indonesia. He has directed the National Institutes of Health Fogarty AIDS International

Art Reingold is a superb choice to serve as the first chair holder given his leadership nationally and internationally in combating infectious disease.

A board-certified physician, Reingold has devoted the last 25 years to the study and prevention of infectious diseases in the United States and in developing countries throughout the world. He began his career as an infectious disease epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During his eight years there, he worked domestically on In honor of the establishment of the Edward E. Penhoet Distinguished Chair, Dean Stephen Toxic Shock Syndrome, Legionnaires’ disease, Shortell (right) presents former dean Edward E. Penhoet with a commemorative inscription.

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Training and Research Program at UC Berkeley/ UC San Francisco since the program’s inception in 1988. He has also served as principal investigator of the UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease and Emergency Readiness since the center’s establishment in 2002.

Reingold regularly teaches courses on epidemiologic methods, outbreak investigation, and the application of epidemiologic methods in developing countries. He was recently elected president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research.

“I am thrilled to have been awarded this signal honor, the more so because of the extraordinarily high regard I have for Ed Penhoet and his many contributions in science and health,” said Reingold. “I hope to use the chair to help support our Center for Global Public Health, as well as our truly world-class graduate students.”

Edward E. Penhoet, in whose honor the chair is named, is a cofounder of the pioneering biotechnology firm Chiron Corporation. He served as the company’s president and chief executive officer from its formation in 1981 until April 1998. For 10 years prior to founding Chiron, he was a faculty member of UC Berkeley’s Biochemistry Department, and from 1998 to 2002 he served as dean of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Penhoet was president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation from 2004 to 2007. He currently serves as commercial life sciences representative on the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine’s Independent Citizens Oversight Committee, of which he was previously vice chair.

A member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Penhoet has coauthored more than 50 scientific papers and articles. Penhoet’s friends and colleagues established the chair in recognition of his distinction as a scientific leader and entrepreneurial visionary and his commitment to improving health globally.

Endowed Chairs: What, Why, and How Endowed chairs are critical to preserving the preeminence of our faculty, the School, and the University. The establishment of an endowed chair is a gift that will live on for generations. But what exactly is an endowed chair and how is one established? Read on to find out!

What is an endowed chair?

An endowed chair is a fund established with a private donation that creates an endowment that is invested in perpetuity to provide stable financial support for faculty. Appointment to an endowed chair is a mark of academic distinction for a professor. Typically named for the donor, endowed chairs offer philanthropists the opportunity to provide support to a field of academic endeavor that is of particular interest to them.

Why are endowed chairs so important?

Although Berkeley’s state funding (which represents about one-third of the campus’s annual budget) has remained relatively constant when adjusted for inflation in the past two decades, California’s current budget crisis has already led to significant state funding cuts this year, with more on the horizon. And, while Berkeley’s endowment has grown to about $2.5 billion as of 2006, during the same period, the endowments at our private peer institutions exploded. For example, Havard’s endowment reached about $30 billion; Stanford’s about 14 billion.

When it comes to retaining and recruiting top professors, the enormous endowments of our private peers have given them a huge competitive advantage—an ability to offer higher salaries, more-generous compensation packages, and greater research funding.

To preserve the Berkeley legacy of public excellence for future generations, Berkeley will need to aggressively build its endowment. Increasing the number of endowed chairs across the campus is an essential and rewarding part of this endeavor.

How can I endow a chair?

A gift to establish an endowed chair can take many forms—including an outright gift or a pledge to be paid over five years. Endowed chairs and distinguished endowed chairs may be named either for the donor or according to the donor’s wishes.

Endowed chairs at Berkeley can be established with a minimum gift of $2 million, and distinguished endowed chairs—for a tenured faculty member who is internationally renowned in his or her field—can be established with a minimum gift of $3 million. And endowed professorship, providing partial salary support as well as professorial and researchrelated expenses, can be established at the School for $1 million.

Endowed funds typically have a conservative annual payout of about five percent in order to protect the purchasing power of the endowment in perpetuity.

If you are interested in establishing an endowed chair at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, please contact Patricia Hosel, assistant dean for external relations and

development, at (510) 642-9654,

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Pittman, Freund Join Policy Advisory Council The head of a public health nonprofit organization and a professor of public administration are the two newest members of the School of Public Health’s Policy Advisory Council. The council advises the dean and supports the School in its efforts to attain the highest level of quality in professional education, research, and service in all aspects of public health.

Mary Pittman, Dr.P.H. ’87, M.P.H. ’80, was appointed president and CEO of the Oakland-based nonprofit Public Health Institute (PHI) in January 2008. From 1996 until 2007, Pittman served on PHI’s board of directors. Previously, she was president of the American Hospital Association affiliate Health Research & Educational Trust.

Pittman has also served as president and CEO of the California Association of Public Hospitals and as director of planning and evaluation for the San Francisco Department of Public Health.

Over the course of her 25-year career, Pittman has become a nationally recognized

public health leader. She has developed public policy and legislative proposals to reduce health disparities and improve access and quality of health care for underserved populations. She has authored two books and numerous scientific journal articles.

In 2008, Pittman was awarded the Spirit of Public Health award from the Graduate Program in Health Management Alumni Association of the Haas School of Business.

Deborah Freund, Ph.D., M.P.H., Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and Center for Policy Research senior research associate at Syracuse University, has had an impressive career in academia. She served

as vice chancellor and provost of Syracuse University from 1999 to 2006. Prior to joining the Syracuse faculty, she was a professor of public affairs at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she also served as vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of the faculties. She was on the faculty at the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina for nine years and has worked as a program assistant at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

She has held many visiting professorships at institutions including Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of London.

Freund received her Ph.D. and M.P.H. from the University of Michigan. Her research interests are health economics, Medicaid, and pharmacoeconomics, the field concerning the cost and implications of pharmaceutical products and services on people and the healthcare industry, an intersection which she is credited as founding. Freund has published more than 120 journal articles and chapters, two books, and has been principal investigator of more than $50 million in grants and contracts.

Your bequest will help

make the world a healthier place You can help educate tomorrow’s public health leaders, recruit and retain world class faculty, advance scholarly inquiry through research and programs, build a new, state-of-the-art home for the School of Public Health, or provide funds for the Dean’s use in meeting changing needs. Whichever you choose, you will help to preserve and enhance the School of Public Health’s excellence—and allow it to keep making the world a healthier place.

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, or visit givetocal.berkeley.edu/giftplanning.

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DEAN’S CIRCLE The School of Public Health Dean’s Circle is a community of committed individual benefactors who share in and support the dean’s vision for the School’s future by making annual leadership gifts. Their collective generosity serves as an inspiration to all of us.

The following list reflects gifts received from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008

$100,000 & ABOVE

Anonymous Kathy Kwan & Robert Eustace Gordon & Elizabeth Moore Roberta O’Grady Jeanne & Sanford Robertson William Rutter Herbert & Marion Sandler

$50,000 to $99,999

Edward & Camille Penhoet Lisa & John Pritzker Stephen & Patricia Rappaport

$25,000 to $49,999

Richard & Susan Levy Roderic & Catherine Park Leighton & Carol Read Leonard & Pamela Schaeffer L. James Strand

$10,000 to $24,999

Patricia & Richard Buffler Shand & William Green Colin & Jacquelyn Hubbard Catherine & James Koshland Allan & Meera Smith Kirk Smith & Joan Diamond

$5,000 to $9,999

Grace Bardine Joan & Howard Bloom Teresa & John Carlson Peter Carpenter & Jane Shaw Robert & Valerie Fish Phyllis Friedman Robert Hosang & Joyce Yap

Nancy Lusk & Michael Smith J. Michael Mahoney Sue Paul Ellen Peterson & Roland Brandel Steven & Sally Schroeder Stephen & Susan Shortell Rosalind Singer

$1,000 to $4,999

Marcelle Abell-Rosen & Andrew Rosen Bruce & Giovanna Ames Anonymous Stacey Baba & James Vokac Edith & Erik Bergstrom Jeffrey & Cathleen Brown Linda Burch & Rajen Dalal George & Eleanor Cernada Farah Champsi Alice Chetkovich Chia-Chia & David Chien Eunice Childs Nilda Chong Linda & James Clever Barbara Coffin Roberta & Leonard Cohn Margaret Deane Susan & Michael Eckhardt Garold & Joyce Faber Gerald & Lorraine Factor Susan & James Foerster Charles & Melissa Froland Wallace Gee Alfred & Stella Hexter Bethany & Peter Holt David & Katharine Hopkins Anthony & Myrna Iton

A. Arlene Kasa Joan Lam Eleanor Langpaap Carter & Linda Lee Yvette Leung & Liwen Mah Virginia & Franklin Lew Hanmin Liu & Jennifer Mei Suzanne Llewellyn Arthur McIntyre Lorraine Midanik & Stephen Blum Mary & Raymond Murakami Nanette & John Orman Artist Parker Elizabeth Parker & Kenneth Taymor Janet Perlman & Carl Blumstein Malcolm Potts & Martha Campbell Darwin & Donna Poulos Sarah & Steven Presser Lois Rifkin Shirley Roach Gayle & Theodore Saenger Nancy Sandberg Richard Scheffler Shoshanna Sofaer & Lawrence Bergner Maury Spanier Robert & Patricia Spear Andrea & Paul Swenson Constantine & Nancy Tempelis Robert Tjian & Claudia Belcher Eric Vittinghoff Eileen & James Vohs Joan Wheelwright Warren Winkelstein Roxana & John Yau Arnold Zeiderman & Peggy Scott-Zeiderman

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HONOR ROLL The School of Public Health gratefully acknowledges the following individuals and organizations for their generous contributions from July 1, 2007 to June 30, 2008.

INDIVIDUALS PARTNERS ($500 to $999) Pamela & Rodrick Alston John & Ruth Bellows Chhaganbhai & Sarojben Bhakta Harvey & Bonnie Bichkoff Wendy Breuer & Charles Crane Lawrence & Girija Brilliant Elizabeth Calfee Margaret Cary Po-Shen Chang & Julie Craig-Chang Chin Long & Fu Chen Chiang Molly Coye Dale Danley Sandra & Jerry Dratler Michael & Sandra Fischman Carole & Austin Frank Michael Gallivan Edward Gastaldo Connie Gee Lawrence Green & Judith Ottoson Martin Hall & Maria Vernet Eugene & Marianne Haller Dina & Adrian Halme James & Patricia Harrison Stephanie Hastrup Thomas Hazlet The Hosel Family Nancy Karp Yvonne Koshland Joyce & Richard Lashof Beverly & John Levy Betsy MacCracken Daniel & N.E. Merians Meredith Minkler & Jerry Peters Ralph & Jane Myhre Mary & Craig Noke Brian & Tacy Quinn Mary Riese Joseph Robinson Beth Roemer E. Scott & Shirley Rosenbloom Nancy & Robert Shurtleff Robert Sparks Frank Staggers & Teresa Hughes-Staggers Emily Stauffer Bruce Steir & Yen Aeschliman Judith Stewart John & Gail Swartzberg Linda Tang

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Frank Tiedemann Katherine & Robert Westpheling Liane & Mitchell Wong Lisa Zwerling & Ron Birnbaum FRIENDS ($250 to $499) T. Elaine Adamson & Edward Gould Nancy Altemus Victor & Karen Alterescu Ramona Anderson Anonymous Mark Barrett Lucinda & Ronald Bazile P. Robert Beatty Laura Brown & Mark Hanson Evelyn Caceres-Chu & Albert Chu Peter & Laura Carroll Nancy Chapman Colb & Andrew Colb

Patricia Evans Julie Fishman & Terry Pechacek L. French Carol Giblin Michael & Pearl Go Jill & Larry Granger Mary & Richard Hafner Nelden & Victoria Hagbom Barbara Hansen Mary Henderson John & Leta Hillman Genevieve Ho Joseph Hummel Deborah & Martin Inouye Young Shin Kim James & Sarah Kimmey Arlene & David Klonoff Laurence Kolonel Jane Kunde Andrew Lan

Michelle Shuff, M.P.H. ’09, and Paris Butler, M.D., M.P.H. ’09, at the Scholarship Tea, an annual event where student scholarship recipients meet the donors whose generosity has made the awards possible

Winnie Chu Carol & Ronald Clazie Ashley & Kenneth Coates Kelin & Stig Colberg Bernard Cordes Douglas & Jacqueline Corley Michael & Nan Criqui Robert Day & C.J. Taylor Kathryn De Riemer James & Dorothy Devitt Michael & Sharon Dillon Jean Dixon Leonard Doberne & Cheryl Tau John & Marlene Eastman

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Carl Lester Michael Lin Leslie Louie & David Bowen Robert Lowe & Michelle Berlin Wallace Lowe Donald Ludwig Merle Lustig & Ronald Glass John & Susan Mamer Elizabeth Martini David Matherly Caroline McCall & Eric Martin Vincent Meehan Hellmut Meister Joyce & Jerry Monkarsh Robert Mueller & Marie Costa

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Linda Neuhauser & Craig Buxton Beata & Harlen Ng Elizabeth & Robert Nobmann Mary O’Connor & Emil Brown Brenda & Budge Offer Martin & Muriel Paley Carol Parlette David Rempel & Gail Bateson Joseph & Nancy Restuccia Allyson & Ralph Rickard Monica Salgado Sidney & Sally Saltzstein William & Enid Satariano Jean Schaefer Gordon & Rosemary Seck Terry & Dana Shaw Robert Simon William & Jacqueline Smith Harrison & Christine Spencer Laura & Donald Stemmle Christopher & Ashley Stephens Kim Vu Ann Weber Michael Weiss Kathleen Wesner & Daniel Sullivan Jan & Ramsay Wiesenfeld Brian Wong & Cindy Gok Katherine Yu & David Su Ingrid Zubieta SUPPORTERS ($150 to $249) David Adler Richard & Carlene Anderson Anonymous Anne Bakar & Joseph Zadik Dean Baker John Balmes & Sherry Katz John Beare James Bellows & Linda Rudolph Gale Berkowitz Glenn & Jeri Bissell Priscilla Branch Heather & Alexander Briscoe Iris & Howard Britton Michael Butler Gretchen & Charles Carlson Matthew Carlson Ralph & June Catalano Michael & Jan Clar Dolores & Samuel Clement Davida Coady Fred Cohen & Carolyn Klebanoff Edwin & Naomi Curtis Robert Derzon Louise Detwiler Judith Dobbins

Gwendolyn Doebbert & Richard Epstein Jacquolyn Duerr & Alberto Balingit Linda Edelstein & Marion Gillen Joseph Engelman Dava & Donald Freed Jonathan Frisch Katharine & Daniel Frohardt-Lane Scott Fujimoto Daniel Funderburk James Daniel Gentry Barbara & Ronald Gordon William & Lynda Gross Valerie Gruber Simon & Sylvia Guendelman Richard Gustilo Doris Hawks Torbeck & John Torbeck Glenn & Jan Hildebrand Elaine & Eric Hillesland Nina Holland Alan & Harriet Hollett Kristin Homme & Mark Elfield Cornelius Hopper Bethany & Jim Hornthal Barbara & Warren Johnson Patricia Jones Harvey & Susan Kayman Cathy Kodama Olayinka Koso-Thomas Nathan Kramer Kelvin & Brenda Lee Rui Li Geoffrey Lomax Kate Lorig Edward & Ida Low Janis MacKenzie Grayson & Sally Marshall Thomas & Virginia McKone Tammy & Raphael Metzger Walter & Gwendal Miner Elizabeth Minkler Lela & Walter Morris Marian Mulkey & John Powers Maria Munoz & David Edelman Evelyn Nodal Janiece & Robert Nolan Mary O’Leary Perkins & Arthur Perkins David & Mary O’Neill Dean & Anne Ornish Alison Pachynski Patsy & Arnold Palmer George & Mary Pedersen Pamela Petersen-Crair & Michael Crair Mary Pittman-Lindeman & David Lindeman

Howard Pollick & Linda Strean Catherine Prato Denise & Michael Prince Kelvin Quan & Karen Lam Richard & Julia Quint Arthur Reingold & Gail Bolan Kenneth Renwick & Trish Rowe Anthony & Barbara Rooklin Sepehr Saljoughi Lynette Sawyer & Kent Dupuis Janet Schilling David & Lorraine Schnurr Donna Seid Karen Sein Tina & Jeff Sherwin Takeo & Maye Shirasawa Elizabeth Shurtleff James Slaggert Hai-Yen Sung & Wen-Gen Liao Roberta Sung Roselyne Swig William & Carolyn Talley Linda Tartof Coralyn & Peter Taylor Gloria & Robert Taylor Corinna & William Tempelis Barbara & Alfredo Terrazas Ronald Thiele Robert & Allene Tumelty Bea & Barbara Vandenberg Lesley & Carl Walter Theodore Weller Peggy Wellman & Loren Dacanay David & Kathryn Werdegar Constance Williams Michael Williams Margaret & Robert Wilson Judy Wong Jennie Woo Richard Zurow CONTRIBUTORS ($1 to $149) Kathleen Abanilla Barbara Abrams & Gary Root Simone Adams Anita Addison Georgette Adjorlolo-Johnson Dorothy Aeschliman Olako Agburu Jennifer Ahern & Yohance Edwards Bilaal Ahmed M. Bridget Ahrens & Jean Szilva Timothy Albertson Laura Allen Linda & Daniel Allen Joan & Ernest Altekruse Frank Alvarez Melissa Amacher

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY ADVISORY COUNCIL 2008–2009 Kenneth S. Taymor, J.D., Chair Executive Director Berkeley Center for Law, Business, and the Economy UC Berkeley School of Law Raymond J. Baxter, Ph.D. National Senior Vice President, Community Benefit Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals

Deborah Freund, Ph.D., M.P.H. Distinguished Professor of Public Administration Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research Syracuse University

J. Leighton Read, M.D. General Partner Alloy Ventures

Lauren LeRoy, Ph.D. President & CEO Grantmakers in Health

Steven A. Schroeder, M.D. Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care UCSF Department of Medicine

Teresa S. Carlson, M.P.H. ’84 Health Care Management Consultant (retired)

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

Peter F. Carpenter, M.B.A. Founder Mission and Values Institute

Dean Ornish, M.D. Founder & President Preventive Medicine Research Institute

Margaret Cary, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H. Special Adviser Medical-Surgical Services Veteran’s Health Administration Linda Hawes Clever, M.D., M.A.C.P. Chief, Occupational Health California Pacific Medical Center Founder, RENEW

Adele Amodeo Jean & Willis Andersen Henry & Virginia Anderson John & Eleanor Anderson Anonymous Bradley & Elizabeth Appelbaum Michael & Bonnie Applebaum Karina Arambula Betty Arezone Ann-Marie Askew Rolf Augustine Lori Babcock Howard & Anita Backer Katherine Baer Richard Bailey Susan & Schuyler Bailey Deborah Bain Brickley & Jason Brickley Hoang Banh & Charles Aldred John Barker & Fan Cheng Kevin Barnett & Alison Neurin

Theodore J. Saenger Member, Board of Directors Sutter Health Care

L. James Strand, M.D., M.B.A. General Partner Institutional Venture Partners Barbara S. Terrazas, M.P.H. ’76 Director of Planning, Development and Policy Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center, Inc.

Martin Paley, M.P.H. ’58 Management Consultant

John Troidl, Ph.D. ’01, M.B.A. President, Public Health Alumni Association Lecturer UC Davis School of Medicine

Mary Pittman, Dr.P.H. ’87 President & CEO Public Health Institute Lisa Stone Pritzker Advocate and Activist for Child, Adolescent, and Women’s Health

Melissa Bartman Elaine Base Suzanne Battaglia Nicole Bazell Kevin & Lori Beagan Gerald & Pamela Beck Kathleen Bedford James & Lisa Behrmann Stephanie Bender-Kitz & Kevin Kitz Lester & Evelyn Bennett Lorraine Benoit Daniel Bertheau Michael Bird Sloane and Julie Blair Babette & Sydney Bloch Heather Blume Catherine Bohn Michelle Boontanom Lavern & Jane Borg Caroline Bowker & Charles Bliss Margaret & Thomas Bowman

James Boyer Anne Bracker & Jefferson Singer Lynda Bradford Margaret Bradford Aumann Jeffrey Braff Judith Bramson Russell Braun Joseph Brazie Donald Brecker & Ann Darling Kasey Brenner Letitia Brewster & David Walton Kenneth & Donna Briney John Brockert Jordan Brooks Claude Brown Elizabeth Brown Garrett Brown & Myrna Santiago Jeremiah Brown Willard Brown & Judith Ginsburg Marcia Brown-Machen & Terry Machen

Linda Bryant David Buchanan & Laura Price Hayley Buchbinder Nancy Bui Merrill Buice Alexandre Bureau & Sylvie Marceau Daniel & Thelma Burke Melissa Burton Myfanwy Callahan Barbara Campbell Sarah Cantrell Marilyn & Thomas Capener Arthur Castillo Edward & Joann Cavenaugh Catherine Cella Leona Chan Raymond & Grace Chan Roger Chapman Helen Chase Susan Chen & Gail Husson Audrey Chiang Jean Chin Mary Chisholm Ann Chou Ellen Chow Eric Chow Catherine Christopher Lisa Chung Heather Clague & Frederic Theunissen Kim & Susan Clark Michael Clark & Trina Dutta Mark Cloutier Louis & Margaret Coccodrilli Janet Coffman Seymour Cohen Simon & Janet Cohn Jacqueline Colby Vyvyan Coleman Dean & James Dean Elena Conis & Justin Remais Carol & S. Bruce Copeland Kitty Corbett & Craig Janes Martin & Diane Covitz Lawrence & Constance Cowper Carol & James Cunradi Loring & Ann Dales James & Shirley Dallas Tapashi Dalvi Helena & James Daly Karla Damus Jeanne Darricades & Michael Gibson Rena David & Walter Meyers Stephen Davies Monique de Bruin & Ryan Schaper Sylvia De Trinidad

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HONOR ROLL, continued Robin Dean Marlene Dehn Jorge & Sylvia Deju Alma DeLeon Meredith Denton Debra & Michael DeZarn Ronald Dieckmann & Patricia Gates Alice Diefenbach Lisa Diemoz Maureen Dion-Perry & Edward Perry Roza Do Roscius Doan & Virginia Warfield Neal Dockal & Judy Cook David Dodds & Kimberly Johnston-Dodds Barry Dorfman & Helen Leabah Winter David & Reade Dornan Ron Drago Jonathan & Susan Ducore Gordon Dugan Kathryn Duke & Niels Kjellund Megan Dunbar Tedi Dunn Adrian Durbin Jennifer Eames Kathleen Earnhart Jose Eguia Lucky Ehigiator Leland & Marta Ehling Virginia Elahi Marjorie Emidy Richard Emmons & Barbara Voorhees-Emmons Robert Emrey & Maureen Norton Jacqueline Erbe & Andrew Talbot Joselin Escobar Shelley Facente Bryan Faulstich Tamar & Joe Fendel Kevin & Barbara Fennelly Jared & Janet Fine Robin & Mark Fine Gerald & Linda Finer Brooke Finkmoore Liza Finley Michael Fischetti & Marilyn Winkleby Kari Fisher Leslie FitzCallaghan Carol & James Floyd Mary Foran Orcilia & Richard Forbes Jeffrey Ford E. Lynn Fraley & Kenneth Lindahl Sara Frank Constance Fraser

Frances & Daniel Freitas Marilyn & Charles Froom Elena Fuentes-Afflick Jill Furst Jennifer & Robert Futernick Deborah & Thomas Gallagher David Gan Celeste Garamendi Mary Gardner Carole & Carl Garner Theresa & Michael Gasman Joan Gates Megan Gaydos Jane Gehring Nicole & H. Jack Geiger Liliane Geisseler & Svein Rasmussen Nancy Gilien Katharine Go Ang & David Ang Suneeta Godbole

Deanne & Sidney Gottfried Gloria & Alfonso Grace Mary Beahrs Grah Howard Graves & Julie Baller Nina & Richard Green Linda Greenberg & Hiroshi Motomura N. Anthony & Ella Greenhouse Jenalynn & William Greer Loyal & Joyce Griffin Gail & Thomas Grogan Richard Grundy & Jamei Haswell Eva Ros Guerrero Erica & Casey Gunderson Sandeep Guntur & Sri Sakamuri Anne Gwiazdowski & William Andersen Jill Hacker-Chavez & Raymond Chavez

BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER SOCIETY Recognizing donors who have expressed their intention to include the School of Public Health in their estate plans Dudley Aldous Grace Bardine Paul Boumbulian Doris Brusasco Patricia & Richard Buffler Paul Conforti Dorothy Crouch Colleen Denny-Garamendi & John Garamendi Debra & Michael DeZarn Viola & Fredrick Egli Garold & Joyce Faber Robert Frangenberg & Ingrid Lamivault Ivan Frohne Marcia Gerin Joseph Homler Jay & Kip Hudson Kenneth & Marjorie Kaiser A. Arlene Kasa

Thomas Goetz Annette Goggio & Daniel Cohn Deborah Gold Betty & Larry Goldblatt Brenda Goldstein Julia Goodman Suzan Goodman Amy & George Gorman James Gorman

Jogi & T. S. Khanna Joan Lam Carol Langhauser Eleanor Langpaap Wallace Lowe James Maas Ora Main-Geyer Roberta O’Grady Therese Pipe Robert & Mary Porter Harper & Leonisa Puziss Lois Rifkin Ronald & Genevieve Roberto Stephen Schultz & Mary Pacey Elizabeth Shurtleff Rosalind Singer B. B. Teravainen Helen Thorall Paola Timiras Bryan Whelan

Jean Hankin & Fred Jones Jovine Hankins Frances Hanson Deborah & John Hardin Lisa Harnack Robert & Martha Harrell Joan Harris M. Antoinette Harris William Harrison Robert & Deanne Hatch

Noah Hawthorne Mary & Richard Hedrick Susan Helmrich & Richard Levine Darryl Henley & Shelly Hamilton Rona & Robert Henry Daniel Hernandez Dorith Hertz & Teven Laxer Constance Heye & Lance Smith Robert & June Hiatt Elizabeth Hibbard Elaine & Joseph Hiel Marisa Hildebrand Warren & Miriam Hill Beverly & Hugh Hilleary Richard Hirsh & Cathy Neto Rosemary Hoban Arlen & Helen Hoh Karen Holbrook Lee & Charlotte Holder Elizabeth Holly & Bruce Seidel Elizabeth Holm Martine Holston Jennifer Hood Rita Hose Sumi Hoshiko & Stuart Ozer David Hoskinson Jeanmaire Hryshko Mae Hsu Yu-Hsi Hu Estie & Mark Hudes Sylvia Hutchison Priscilla Ilem Robert & Beverly Isman Kiersten Israel-Ballard Susan Ivey Mary & Kraig Jacobson Gay Jagels Nidhi Jain Patricia James Roland & Reona James Marion Jarrett Melissa Jennings D. Lowell Jensen Kathony & Franklin Jerauld Petra Jerman Violet Jew Jon Johnsen Kathryn Johnson & John Culver Marchelle Johnson Ryan Johnson Yeva Johnson & Michael Potter Andrea Jones Marilyn Robbie Jossens & Lawrence Jossens Lili & Robert Joy Dawn Joyce Ngon Jue David Kaisel

Soo-Hyang Kang Deborah Karasek Leanne & Richard Kaslow Muriel & David Kears Steffi & Josh Kellam Jenness & James Keller Susan & Daniel Keller Olivia & Richard Kendrick Lani Kent Margo Kerrigan Eric Kessell Alana Ketchel Ruthann Kibler Helen & Gene Kim Nancy & Kenneth Klostermeyer Freyja Knapp & Laurent Morton Arthur & Laura Kodama Jean Kohn Colin & Diane Kopes-Kerr Jill Korte Kathryn Kotula Willard & Grace Krabill Nora Krantzler & John Boothby Margaret & Robert Kreider Jerry Kuroda Mark Kutnink Marilyn Kwan Rita Kwan Clement & Donna Kwong Bruce & Phyllis Lane Phyllis Lane Sandra Lane Geoffrey Lang Daniel Lappin Rachel Larson Bernard Lau Doris Lauber Kurt Lauridsen Audrey Lawrence Sally Lawrence Janet Leader Frances & Ronald Ledford Carrie & John Lee Diane Lee Patricia & Po-Sun Lee Roberta Lee Priscilla Lee-Chu & Eugene Chu Sharon Lerman Heidi Lerner Eric & Jasmin Levander Lynn Levin & Stanley Oshinsky Sylvia Levinson Avital Levy Jack & Edna Lewis Adrienne & Van Horn Lieu Tracy Lieu Maurine Lightwood

Samuel Lind Lois Lindberg David Lindquist Kris Lindstrom & Annette Chaplin Edwin Linsley Sheri Lippman & Victor Perez-Zubeldia Christine Little Sibylle Lob & Robert Badal Lois & Donald Lollich David & Wendy Louie James & Maureen Lubben Betty Lucas & Gordon Jackins Roger Luckmann & Erica Foldy Anne & Charles Ludvik Linda & Sammy Lum Claudia & Robert Lutz Thomas Maack Frank & Waneka Mackison Sheryl Magzamen Naveen & Syed Mahmood Shirley Main David & Anne Manchester Aditya Mane Harry & Claire Manji Jean & Anionette Maples Claire Margerison David Mark Anita & Edward Marshall Jane Martin & Michael Samuel Marina Martin Luis & Ardonna Martinez Patricia Maryland Doris Maslach Nancy Masters & Paul Cohen John Mateczun & Elizabeth Holmes Ben & Misato Mathews Marlon Maus Melanie Maykin Brigid McCaw Brandi McCoy Marian McDonald Ruth McHenry-Coe Marta McKenzie & Lawrence Chapter Janet McNamara Robert Meenan Raymond Meister & Mary Miller Maya Melczer Christina & Randall Mellin Mark Mendell Ruth & Harry Metzger James & Nancy Meyers Joan Milburn Andrew Miller Jenesse Miller Marlene & Thomas Miller Robert & Faith Miller

Ray Minjares & Ryan Greene-Roesel Anna Mirer Patrick Mitchell Seema Mittal Muniba Mohammed Janet Mohle-Boetani & Mark Monasse Sunshine Monastrial Lorna & Kenneth Monroe J.C. & Lark Montgomery Telford Moore Hilbert Morales & Elizabeth Rose-Morales Pat & Ray Morris Hallie Morrow Courtney Mulhern-Pearson Mark & Nancy Munekata Melissa Murphy Lea & Benjamin Murray Frank Mycroft & Sue Tsang Prabhakaran & Girija Nair Katherine Nammacher & Dean Diongson Sarah Neff Amalia & Carl Neidhardt William Neilson Jeffrey Newman Valerie Ngo Mark Nicas & Jennifer McNary Joel & Phyllis Nitzkin Gary & Peggy Noble Charlotte Noyes & Clark Watkins Chidinma & George Nwakudu Juno Obedin-Maliver Somao Ochi Marcellina Ogbu Afolabi & Mojirola Oguntoyinbo Ruby & Donald Okazaki Victor Olano Ann Oldervoll R. Detlev Olshausen Cynthia & Brian O’Malley Douglas Oman Karen Oppenheimer Susie Osaki Holm Lars Osterberg Ruth Osuch Lisa & Roger Ota Beverly Ovrebo Nitika & Madhukar Pai Edward Panacek Melissa Parker Marie Pasquinelli Ronald Pasquinelli Bina Patel Mildred Patterson Eileen & Mark Pearl

Clockwise from upper left: James Bullard and Robert Gunier, M.P.H. ’97, both of whom received Reshetko Family Scholarships; George McKray, M.P.H. ’57, who facilitated the creation of the Reshetko Family Scholarships; and Professor Emeritus Chin Long Chang, in whose honor one of the scholarships was named Jolie Pearl Anna Peck Marcia Peck Gerald Peters Douglas & Karla Peterson Christina Phares & Colin Garrett Mary Philp Alta Picchi Susan & John Pinheiro Therese Pipe Lawrence Plaskett James Platts Nyla Plouche-Gonzalez Jennifer & Matthew Plunkett Adam Polis Maria Porter Philip Prendergast Karen & Robert Pridemore Erica Prussing Jacqueline & Richard Pryor Savitri Purshottam Nancy Puttkammer & David Saxen Aisha Qamar Cheng Qin Patricia Quinlan & Kevin Costello Judith Quittman Kimberley & Martin Ragnartz Valerie Randolph & Donald Fenbert Judith & John Ratcliffe Loren Rauch & Heather Kuiper Blake Rawdin Irene Reed Jill Reedy & Andrew Martin Susan Reese Kyndaron Reinier Rene Ricks Kathleen Ries & Stephen McCurdy Jean & Francis Riley Gordon & Whit Robbins Annette & Wilfrid Roberge Mary & Carl Rodrick

Judith & Paul Rogers James Rogge Judith Rosen Allan Rosenberg Martin Rosenblum Elizabeth Rosenthal & Jorge Ibarra Rebecca Roth Rebecca Roy Alice Royal Thomas Rundall & Jane Tiemann Neil Sachs Natalia & Michael Sadetsky Lisa Sadleir-Hart & Thomas Hart Lisa & Ali Safaeinili Jose Salazar Neda Saleh Alice Salvatore & Alan Oppenheim Ann & Lars Sandven Martha Sandy & Qi Dang Gopal & Andrea Sankaran Timothy & Kiyomi Sankary Glenn-Milo Santos Clea Sarnquist Leigh Sawyer & Gerald Quinnan Katherine Schaff Maureen Scherzberg Sunessa Schettler Robert Schlegel & Janet Fogel Steven Schwartzberg Megan Schwarzman Victoria & Dell Schweitzer Lynn Scuri & John Glaser Faith Seal William & Roberta Shaw Valerie Sheehan Edna & Jeffrey Shipley Seth Shonkoff Karen Shore Stephen Sidney & Carolyn Schuman Jessica Siegel & Stephen Tsoneff Kirstin & Geoffrey Siemering

John Sieverding & Elizabeth Tapen-Sieverding Jennifer & Joel Silberman Barton & Kathy Simmons Juliet Sims & Bryan Barnhart Monique Sims Lillian Sinayuk Phoenix Sinclair Cathy & Gary Sitts Kelly Sitts Esmond Smith Sharon & Harry Smith Terrill Smith Linda Smith Schermer & Harry Schermer Lorraine Smookler Kristie Snider Susan & David Snyder Krikor & Caline Soghikian Karen Sokal-Gutierrez Lucia & Peter Sommers Leif Sorenson Joan Sprinson Usha & Bharat Srinivasan Susan Standfast & Theodore Wright James Stark David Steffen Jacklyn Stein & Matt Atwood Deborah & David Stephenson Edith & Guy Sternberg Patricia Sterner Wayne Steward Philip & Sigrid Stillman Howard & Virginia Stiver Marilyn & William Stocker Martin & Sharon Strosberg Mark & Nanelle Sullivan Anne Sunderland Franklin & Elizabeth Sunzeri Christine Swanson Tricia Swartling & Chris Williams Louise Swig Laurence & Ann Sykes Kristie Tacey Hui Tang Patricia Tanquary Elfi & Hugo Tarazona Cathy Tashiro & Carl Anderson Timothy Taylor William & Judith Taylor Irene & Marsh Tekawa Marilyn Teplow Patricia Terry & Douglas Olson Nyunt Thane Gregory & Bonita Thomas Hannah Thompson Lisa Thompson

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HONOR ROLL, continued Mary Haven & Richard Thompson Sheryl Thorburn Diane Tokugawa & Alan Gould Rose & John Tom April Tong Claudine Torfs Mary Traylor James Trostle Laura Trupin Feng Tsai Sandra Tsai Suzanne Tsang Mary & Kenneth Tuckwell Janis & Daniel Tuerk Robert Tufel David Tuller Michael & Barbara Turell Sandra Tye Judith & Clarence Ueda Gregory Ullman Timothy Uyeki Candace Vahlsing Craig Van Roekens Julie & Dan Van Winkle Ludenia & Steven Varga Anne Vargas Dorothy & Clasten Vaughn Rosalie & Paul Vlahutin Karen Vogel Lois Von Husen & Richard Lehman Kathleen Vork Girish Vyas Leslie Wallace Karin Wallestad & David Madland Julia Walsh & Stephen Dell Christina Watson Anielka Gonzalez Webb & Matthew McCoffer Harvey & Rhona Weinstein Constance & Stanley Weisner Morris & Audree Weiss Amy Weitz Ardyce Wells Veta & Robert Wenzel John & Elizabeth Anne Wikle John Williams Jacquelyn Williams-Uqbolue Michael Wilson & Maria Kersey Liana & William Winett Terry & Teri Winter Barbara Wismer Sharon Witemeyer Ellen Wolfe Carol & George Woltring Carrie Wong Channing Wong Lisa Wong Walter Wong

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Susie & Howard Woo Annie Worth Robert Yarwood Christine Yeh Mary & Melvyn Yokan Christopher Yopp Sallie Yoshida & Max Kelley Herbert & Carolyn Young Linda Young Virginia Young-Cureton & Glen Cureton Stella Yu & Hingloi Hung Susan Zahner Lixia Zhang & Tom Lake Lucas Zier Ann Zukoski & Mark Bartlett

ORGANIZATIONS EXECUTIVE CIRCLE ($100,000 & ABOVE) Anonymous Fred H. Bixby Foundation British United Provident Association Limited Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Public Health Institute DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE ($50,000 to $99,999) The Aquaya Institute Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. Venture Strategies for Health & Development LEADERS ($25,000 to $49,999) Max Factor Family Foundation BENEFACTORS ($10,000 to $24,999) Children with Leukaemia FMC Foundation International Foundation for Ethical Research W. K. Kellogg Foundation Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation The San Francisco Foundation PATRONS ($5,000 to $9,999) Blue Shield of California The California Endowment The Commonwealth Fund Give Something Back, Inc. Philanthropic Ventures Foundation II

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Owen Patotzka (far left), John Warren (second from left), and Howard Friedman (right), trustees of the Fred H. Bixby Foundation, join Dean Stephen Shortell (center) and Chancellor Birgeneau at a reception to celebrate the foundation’s $15 million gift to establish the Bixby Center for Population, Health, and Sustainability.

ADVOCATES ($1,000 to $4,999) Anonymous Anthem Blue Cross Of California California Healthcare Foundation The California Wellness Foundation Catholic Healthcare West Chevron Oronite Company Dextra Baldwin McGonagle Foundation Galloway Trust Global Solutions for Infectious Diseases Hain Celestial Group, Inc. The James Irvine Foundation John Muir/Mt Diablo Health System Kaiser Permanente KPMG Foundation The New York Community Trust Pfizer, Inc. Marcelle & Andrew Rosen Foundation Sutter Health Care Telecare Corporation UC Chinese Alumni Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation PARTNERS ($500 to $999) Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland Chinese Hospital Google Foundation International Medical Corps The Lair of the Golden Bear Family Camp Lashof Revocable Intervivos Noke Charitable Foundation The David & Lucile Packard Foundation Nicholas C. Petris Center Presidio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Ramsell Holding Corporation See’s Candies Silverado Vineyards

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FRIENDS ($250 to $499) American International Group, Inc. Berkeley Chamber Performances Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies Foundation Andrea Menghetti Import & Export Nova Fisheries, Inc. Woodenhead Vintners SUPPORTERS ($150 to $249) Alta Bates Medical Group Applera Corporation Davis Wright Tremaine LLP DoubleTree Hotel of Berkeley Freddie Mac Foundation Hafner Vineyards Health & Healing Clinic F. Korbel Bros Metzger Law Group Patsy & Arnold Palmer Foundation Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc. Retzlaff Estate Wines Rosenblum Cellars, Inc. Samuels & Associates Stop AIDS Project Varian Medical Systems, Inc. CONTRIBUTORS ($1 to $149) Acme Bread Company Berkeley Touchless Car Wash Caffe Venezia ChevronTexaco Corporation Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose Citizen Canine Cobb’s Comedy Club Connie’s Cantina Disneyland Eastwind Books Of Berkeley Fellini Restaurant Funky Door Yoga

General Motors Corporation Foundation Grub N Go Jodie’s Restaurant & Bar-B-Que Juan’s Place La Note Restaurant Lawrence Hall of Science Lindsay Wildlife Museum Merck Company Foundation Natural Grocery Company OSIsoft Rockridge Cafe Martin Rosenblum & Associates San Francisco Zoo Straighten Up! The United Way of the Bay Area Viva Taqueria Weiss Family Trust Wellpoint Foundation Zza’s Trattoria

GIFTS IN KIND Acme Bread Company/ Doug Volkmer Lucinda & Ronald Bazile P. Robert Beatty Berkeley Chamber Performances Berkeley Natural Grocery Company Berkeley Touchless Car Wash Bette’s Oceanview Diner Harvey & Bonnie Bichkoff Michael Bird BJ & J Sports Awards & Gifts Babette & Sydney Bloch Kasey Brenner Patricia & Richard Buffler Caffe Venezia Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose Citizen Canine Cobb’s Comedy Club Connie’s Cantina Linda Davis Disneyland DoubleTree Hotels, Berkeley Ron Drago Eastwind Books of Berkeley Steve Fanelli Fellini Restaurant Funky Door Yoga Judy Gilmore Grand Lake Theater Grub N Go Hafner Vineyards Hain Celestial Group, Inc. David Harrington & Denise Abrams Health & Healing Clinic Denise Herd

Elaine & Eric Hillesland Institute for Health and Healing Jodie’s Restaurant & Bar-B-Que Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies Foundation Juan’s Place F. Korbel Bros Jane Kunde Jerry Kuroda La Note Restaurant The Lair of the Golden Bear Family Camp Joan Lam Mindi Lassman Lawrence Hall of Science Carl Lester Lexus of Serramonte Lindsay Wildlife Museum Leslie Louie & David Bowen Mario’s La Fiesta Andrea Menghetti Import & Export Natural Grocery Company

William Neilson Evelyn Nodal Lisa & Roger Ota Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Inc. Pharmaca Integrative Pharmacy Poulet Lisa & John Pritzker Kelvin Quan & Karen Lam Retzlaff Estate Wines Laura Roche Rockridge Cafe Beth Roemer Judith & Paul Rogers Rosenblum Cellars, Inc. Gayle & Theodore Saenger San Francisco Zoo Janet Schilling Steven Schwartzberg See’s Candies Semifreddi’s Karen Shore Stephen & Susan Shortell

Silverado Vineyards Alan Stein & Laura Peck Bruce Steir & Yen Aeschliman Straighten Up! L. James Strand Kristie Tacey Linda Tang Nancy Thomson Viva Taqueria Julia Walsh & Stephen Dell Woodenhead Vintners Zza’s Trattoria

CLASS GIFT Bilaal Ahmed Lori Babcock Melissa Bartman Nicole Bazell Kathleen Bedford Sloane Blair Michelle Boontanom Emily Brandl-Salutz

Jordan Brooks Nancy Bui Peter Carroll Leona Chan Sheena Chen Ellen Chow Meredith Denton Adrian Durbin Jacqueline Erbe Joselin Escobar Bryan Faulstich Brooke Finkmoore Jeffrey Ford Jill Furst Mary Gardner Suneeta Godbole Julia Goodman Sandeep Guntur Noah Hawthorne Martine Holston Jennifer Hood Jeanmaire Hryshko

Yu-Hsi Hu Kiersten Israel-Ballard Yeva Johnson Dawn Joyce Deborah Karasek Alana Ketchel Heather Kuiper Rita Kwan Rachel Larson Bernard Lau Priscilla Lee-Chu Sharon Lerman Avital Levy Claire Margerison Marina Martin Melanie Maykin Brandi McCoy Maya Melczer Jenesse Miller Muniba Mohammed Sunshine Monastrial Melissa Murphy

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DECADE CLUB Recognizing individuals who have given for the past 10 years consecutively T. Elaine Adamson & Edward Gould Nancy Altemus Adele Amodeo Ramona Anderson Richard & Carlene Anderson Howard & Anita Backer Richard Bailey John Barker & Fan Cheng James & Lisa Behrmann Joan & Howard Bloom Judith Bramson Wendy Breuer & Charles Crane Claude Brown Jeffrey & Cathleen Brown Patricia & Richard Buffler Elizabeth Calfee Barbara Campbell Gretchen & Charles Carlson Farah Champsi Raymond & Grace Chan Alice Chetkovich Chin Long & Fu Chen Chiang Eunice Childs Carol & Ronald Clazie Dolores & Samuel Clement Linda & James Clever

Ashley & Kenneth Coates Seymour Cohen Carol & S. Bruce Copeland Martin & Diane Covitz Lawrence & Constance Cowper Helena & James Daly Dale Danley Margaret Deane John & Marlene Eastman Susan & Michael Eckhardt Leland & Marta Ehling Patricia Evans Gerald & Lorraine Factor Robin & Mark Fine Michael & Sandra Fischman Julie Fishman & Terry Pechacek Carol & James Floyd Susan & James Foerster Constance Fraser Katharine & Daniel Frohardt-Lane Marilyn & Charles Froom Wallace Gee Nicole & H. Jack Geiger Liliane Geisseler & Svein Rasmussen Carol Giblin William & Lynda Gross

Richard Gustilo Jean Hankin & Fred Jones Frances Hanson Robert & Martha Harrell James & Patricia Harrison Thomas Hazlet Alfred & Stella Hexter Glenn & Jan Hildebrand David & Katharine Hopkins Robert Hosang & Joyce Yap The Hosel Family David Hoskinson Estie & Mark Hudes Deborah & Martin Inouye Robert & Beverly Isman A. Arlene Kasa James & Sarah Kimmey Laurence Kolonel Catherine & James Koshland Clement & Donna Kwong Joan Lam Joyce & Richard Lashof Frances & Ronald Ledford Kelvin & Brenda Lee Lynn Levin & Stanley Oshinsky Nancy Lusk & Michael Smith Shirley Main Grayson & Sally Marshall Nancy Masters & Paul Cohen Ruth McHenry-Coe Robert Meenan

Mark Mendell Joan Milburn Elizabeth Minkler Meredith Minkler & Jerry Peters Ralph & Jane Myhre Linda Neuhauser & Craig Buxton Jeffrey Newman Beata & Harlen Ng Joel & Phyllis Nitzkin Elizabeth & Robert Nobmann Mary & Craig Noke Somao Ochi Mary O’Connor & Emil Brown Ruth Osuch Roderic & Catherine Park Artist Parker Mildred Patterson Edward & Camille Penhoet Janet Perlman & Carl Blumstein Darwin & Donna Poulos Savitri Purshottam Arthur Reingold & Gail Bolan Joseph & Nancy Restuccia Lois Rifkin Shirley Roach Judith & Paul Rogers Thomas Rundall & Jane Tiemann Lisa Sadleir-Hart & Thomas Hart Sidney & Sally Saltzstein Leigh Sawyer & Gerald Quinnan Janet Schilling

Takeo & Maye Shirasawa Stephen & Susan Shortell Elizabeth Shurtleff Nancy & Robert Shurtleff Rosalind Singer Allan & Meera Smith Esmond Smith Kirk Smith & Joan Diamond Linda Smith Schermer & Harry Schermer Lorraine Smookler Robert & Patricia Spear Susan Standfast & Theodore Wright Bruce Steir & Yen Aeschliman Edith & Guy Sternberg Howard & Virginia Stiver Marilyn & William Stocker Laurence & Ann Sykes Irene & Marsh Tekawa Corinna & William Tempelis Marilyn Teplow Ronald Thiele Laura Trupin Sandra Tye Eileen & James Vohs Harvey & Rhona Weinstein

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Past, Present, Future

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A Conversation with Linda Neuhauser “Translating” research to action to benefit society has become a critical issue in the United States and globally. The World Health Organization labels this problem the “know-do gap.” During the past two decades, there has been intense interest in understanding the barriers to converting scientific findings into successful treatments, programs, and policies, and what can be done to bridge that gap. One of the School’s new strategic goals is to inventory and examine projects in this area and their impacts, and find ways to advance this work in translational research.

Berkeley Health interviewed Linda Neuhauser, Dr.P.H. ’88,

clinical professor of community health and human development, about closing the know-do gap. Neuhauser focuses on translating research into improved health interventions. She is also co-principal investigator of the School’s Health Research for Action center

excellent research is not always impacting the public, and how to do better.

How did you become interested in this issue?

I became very interested in this problem in the early 1980s when I was working as a USAID health officer in Mauritania, West Africa. My main job was to work with the health system to develop a national children’s vaccination

(healthresearchforaction.org), which conducts research on a broad range of health topics and works with the public, practitioners, and policy makers to create large-scale, successful health activities.

Why has “translational research” become such an important topic?

During the past 20 years, it has become increasingly clear that most of our research is not being successfully applied to improve people’s health. One estimate is that it may take 17 years to turn just 14 percent of original research into a clinical application, and much longer to impact the population level.

Even the most successful health interventions only reach a small proportion of the target population. For example, tens of thousands of pilot studies have identified the benefits of healthy diets and exercise, but obesity rates keep increasing. Only one-third of Americans take medications correctly to manage chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension. We need a better understanding about why

program. Unfortunately, the situation was dismal: There had been 20 years of previous failed vaccination programs, and large numbers of children were dying from preventable diseases. It was obvious that something was lacking, and it wasn’t basic research about vaccines. I spent two years with African colleagues painstakingly

identifying and resolving a complex set of technical, social, organizational, and economic barriers. After two years of grassroots work with communities and at all levels of the health system we succeeded: The new vaccination program effectively reached 85 percent of children in that country.

What did you learn from that experience?

The first thing I learned was that health experts, though knowledgeable and trusted about science, may know little about implementing complex interventions. I learned that it is critical to engage communities and health workers at all levels to solve problems from the outset. Without that engagement nothing successful can be implemented or sustained. I learned, further, that complex health problems— like setting up a vaccination program in the Sahara desert —require input from people in multiple disciplines, and sectors. In this case, we had to involve politicians, religious leaders, veterinarians, camel traders, teachers, business entrepreneurs, linguists, and many others. I understood that my technical training in public health was not enough to prepare me for the reality of the field. I resolved to apply these lessons to my future work and wanted to study them more systematically. continued on page 32 Berkeley Health Summer 2009

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Research to Action, continued Why do you think has it taken so long to understand the severity of the know-do gap and do something about it?

A major problem is that it’s hard to examine or address this area in depth without involving multiple stakeholders. Historically, none of the major professional stakeholder groups— researchers, practitioners, or policy makers —has had a clear mandate, incentive, or accountability in this area. In addition, each of these groups faces big barriers to getting more engaged.

For example, academics are motivated and rewarded for research and publications, and are often actively discouraged from “getting involved in implementation.” Practitioners may prefer to draw on their own experiences or may have inadequate access to research findings and limited power to change practices within their institutions. And policy makers often need timely, well-digested scientific information to make decisions that fit within yearly budgets or political terms.

What catalyzed the new focus on research translation?

I think it has come about because of the growing frustration that many national and global health goals are not being achieved.

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goals into their major mandates and strategies.

Funding has also been important. The NIH has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into translational and transdisciplinary research centers. The European Union has invested billions of dollars in this area.

How is translational research defined?

There is no consensus for definitions for this new field, but generally it’s an emerging scientific study about factors that promote or hinder converting research to effective action across disciplines and sectors. Some common descriptors are “translational research,” “transdisciplinary research,” “integration and implementation sciences,” and “knowledge transfer.” The concept of “translation” refers to the process of ensuring that research knowledge relevant to health eventually serves the public. The word “transdisciplinary” describes researchers working together from the outset to

technical factors, that are key to successful health interventions. As one researcher put it, “Human interaction is the engine that drives research into practice.” Along these lines, researchers have found that it is often critical to have a “knowledge broker” with the skills to work across disciplines and sectors to integrate knowledge into action. That person should have leadership and negotiation skills, and be able to create a respectful atmosphere and “common language” among people from different disciplinary backgrounds or sectors.

Applying highly participatory processes, including community-based participatory research is also important for success.

Other findings emphasize the need to have regular face-to-face meetings, and a constant high level of excellent communication and conflict resolution. Besides personal and process factors, the research is also showing that institutions that want to advance research translation need to create incentives, funding, and spaces for this work. Another finding is that constant evaluation and revision need to be incorporated at all phases.

How have these findings influenced your work?

define new concepts, methods, or products.

For example, the “built environment” is a new discipline that joins collaborators from public health, city planning, design, engineering, and many other fields.

What are some of the practical lessons learned from this research?

In my view, some of the most interesting findings are that it is often social, rather than

In Africa, I had to learn many of these lessons the hard way. Now I am committed to always working with intended beneficiaries and other stakeholders as co-designers, implementers, and revisers of health interventions. The extra time this work requires is well worth the positive outcomes.

These lessons were also a fundamental reason why my colleagues and I created the Health Research for Action center to bring together

researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and diverse members of the public, including the most disenfranchised groups. We wanted to create an empowering approach that would tightly link research and its application.

What’s an example of one of your translational research activities?

We’ve partnered with the state of California since 2000 to help develop

and evaluate educational kits that reach 500,000 new parents each year. We developed a parents’ guide for the kit by engaging researchers to examine the evidence base, and then co-designed the guide with thousands of diverse parents and health care providers, state and local policy-makers, and the media. We also provided advice about participatory design and testing to other groups who created resources for the kit. After the kit was launched statewide, we conducted a rigorous three-year evaluation of its use and impact. The findings showed very positive effects on parents’ learning and behaviors, and recommendations were used to make important changes to the kit and its distribution. We have now leveraged the lessons learned to adapt the kit in four other statewide initiatives.

Can you give another example of translational research at the School?

There are many excellent examples of how the School’s research has been applied to

help millions of people globally. One example is the work led by Eva Harris, professor of infectious disease and director of the Center for Global Public Health. Professor Harris is committed to finding ways to understand and control dengue fever, a severe tropical disease affecting 40 million people each year. Early in her career in this area, she was advised to focus on her laboratory and avoid fieldwork to succeed in academia. However, she sees science as a social contract for a better world. She has followed her ideals by studying the translational continuum of dengue—from molecular and pathogenesis studies at UC Berkeley to the clinical and community levels in Nicaragua, Ecuador, and other countries.

Her partnerships with scientists in developing countries motivated

her to set up the nonprofit Sustainable Sciences Institute so that those researchers would have access to training and affordable technology to advance their own ideas on priority infectious diseases problems in their countries.

Professor Harris’s scientific and field successes highlight the rewards of superb research translation. Her next translational mission?

Transforming the university’s incentive and administrative structures so they better support researchers to work across disciplines and impact people’s lives.

What are the implications of these lessons for teaching?

The implications are huge. The School has greatly increased its focus on research to action, both in courses offered and in opportunities for students to work on research translation in centers like the new Bixby Center that advances reproductive health activities globally, the Center for Public Health Practice that provides practical training and internships, the Center for Labor and Occupational Health, and the Berkeley Alliance for Global Health, which is a campuswide effort to solve major global health challenges.

The Doctor of Public Health program, in which I teach, is explicitly intended to provide students with cross-disciplinary training in research translation. In the first year of the program, students from diverse health disciplines work with a client to research a specific domestic or

international health problem and design solutions. Students have taken on such challenges as creating strategies to improve emergency preparedness for vulnerable groups affected

by Hurricane Katrina, and working with the government of Mexico to improve HIV/AIDS programs. Graduates of this program are highly successful “knowledge-to-action” brokers worldwide—an impressive tribute to the School’s commitment to research translation.

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New Strategic Plan Charts Course for a Healthy Future

By Dean Stephen M. Shortell

Our School’s goal is to produce the knowledge and people to help everyone live longer, healthier lives.

To that end, we have developed and are implementing an updated strategic plan that supports our vision of developing “diverse leaders equipped to help solve the health challenges of the 21st century and beyond.”

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Expand the School’s Growth

The plan calls for us to increase our impact by expanding and strengthening our partnerships throughout the Bay Area and the state. The School’s new Center for Public Health Leadership, made possible with the generous support of the Eustace-Kwan Foundation, will expand opportunities for our students to develop the leadership skills they need in order to work effectively across sectors at multiple levels throughout their careers. The center is closely tied to community organizations and agencies emphasizing practice-based and service-based learning. Another new initiative with significant impact is the Public Health Roundtable, developed to engage health leaders throughout the state in developing strategies and actions to improve Californians’ health. Two roundtables were held at the School this past year, addressing the issue of developing California’s own Healthy People 2020 plan as part of the nation’s overall Healthy People 2020 framework.

There is an estimated shortage of 25,000 public health professionals in California. A recent report by the University of California President’s Advisory Council on Future Growth in the Health Professions recommended a doubling of the School’s enrollment from the current approximately 200 new students per year to approximately 400 new students per year by 2020, with associated faculty positions and staff support allocations. While the initial approved allocation of 66 new students scheduled for the 2008–2009 academic year has been postponed because of state budget cuts, the School is seeking private support to begin the needed growth, with a particular emphasis on recruiting students from underserved communities. We have also increased our Graduate Recruitment and Diversity Services program from four to 25 students and expanded our recruitment efforts within the state and across the country.

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To accommodate our planned growth as well as our existing needs, we are planning for a new home for the School. We will be anchoring Berkeley’s new Community Health Campus to be built on Berkeley Way between Shattuck Ave. and Oxford St., where the State Department of Health building currently stands. Phase I of this project is in the early planning stages with an expected cost of $110 million. This will be funded from a variety of sources including a targeted goal of $60 million from philanthropic sources as part of our fundraising campaign.

Accelerate Progress towards Achieving Greater Diversity

We are addressing diversity not only in terms of numbers but, also, with regard to the content of our curriculum and in our faculty, staff, and student interaction. We have successfully competed for new faculty positions as part of the Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative. We have expanded our student

outreach efforts to minority schools and colleges; to the California State University system; and to California’s community colleges.

We are in the process of implementing diversity and cultural competencies recommended by the Association of Schools of Public Health.

Working with the Public Health Institute, we are playing a lead role on a statewide diversity workforce initiative.

Promote Transdisciplinary and Translational Research

Our faculty continues to be extraordinarily successful in attracting research grants and contracts to increase our understanding of the biological, physical, and social determinants of health. But we are giving increased attention to transdisciplinary and translational research initiatives, such as the new Center for Exposure Biology established in conjunction with faculty in the College of Chemistry. Our Center for Global Public Health is making major contributions to improving health in more than 25 developing countries. Its companion,

the Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases, is working on breakthrough discoveries that can eventually lead to eradication of major infectious diseases.

Together these two centers form the Berkeley Alliance for Global Health, involving nearly 100 investigators across campus.

under the leadership of Donald Francis (2008 International Public Health Hero) is actively engaged in implementing strategies to achieve our overall goal. The ultimate success of our efforts will depend on everyone’s support.

Attract the Resources Required for Success

The above figure summarizes the five major themes of our strategic plan. The key, of course, is increasing the impact of the School’s contribution to improving human health. This depends on our ability to grow and to increase our commitment to diversity on the one hand, and the ability to develop transdisciplinary and translational research initiatives on the other.

The platform for all of this to occur is the need to secure additional resources. The plan is a dynamic rolling plan which will be updated on an annual basis. Through this magazine and other venues, we will continue to update you on our progress. As always, your continued support is greatly appreciated.

I am pleased to share the good news that during the “quiet” phase of our campaign we have raised $46 million or 42 percent of our targeted five-year $110 million fundraising goal. During this phase, a significant gift was received from the Fred H. Bixby Foundation of $15 million to create the Bixby Center for Population Health, Environment, and Sustainability.

During the now public phase of our campaign, we recently received a $5 million gift from Kaiser Permanente to support our student enrollment growth, with a particular emphasis on recruiting students from underserved communities. Our Campaign Steering Committee,

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Moving Towards a New Home for the School The UC Berkeley School of Public Health continues to excel in its mission of preparing tomorrow’s public health professionals—even as it operates out of makeshift, temporary quarters scattered across the Berkeley campus. Imagine what the School could accomplish if it had facilities commensurate with the scale of its mission.

Picture a new, state-of-the-art building —the centerpiece of a planned Community Health Campus on Berkeley Way. The 180,000-square-foot facility will centralize all public health teaching and research, with classrooms, lecture halls, laboratories, conference rooms, and offices equipped with the latest in information and communication technology. Raising the funds necessary to make this a reality is one of the goals of The Campaign for the School of Public Health.

Currently, the State Department of Public Health building is located at the site.

That building, which is seismically unsafe, will be demolished. The new building will be designed and constructed according to UC Berkeley’s landmark Green Building Policy and Clean Energy Standard.

“These new facilities are critical if the School is to continue to attract and retain top-tier faculty, enroll greater numbers of qualified applicants, and equip them with the skills to meet society’s health needs,” says Dean Stephen Shortell.

“Having a home for the School will encourage greater collaboration and

high-quality work will further strengthen our reputation as a community resource and enable us to compete more effectively in the grant arena.”

The School of Public Health plans to be the first unit to move to the Community Health Campus; however, others could soon follow. Possible neighbors for the School include the School of Optometry, the clinical portion of the Psychology Department, and part of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute.

News and Notes Book looks at market signals and future supply of doctors

New center for green chemistry established

Richard M. Scheffler, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Health Economics and Public Policy and director of the Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, has published, Is There A Doctor In The House? Market Signals and Tomorrow’s Supply of Doctors, (Stanford University Press, September 2008).

The book shows how shifts in market power underlie the changes that have been seen in the health workforce, and how those shifts will affect the future availability of doctors.

Scheffler’s book asserts that the United States is not suffering from a doctor shortage—it is seeing the results of decades of misguided public policies that have created a health care marketplace that often fails to deliver the right number of doctors, of the right specialty, in the right locations.

Under the aegis of the Berkeley Institute on the Environment, the campus has established the UC Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry, the first of its kind in the nation. The Center for Green Chemistry brings together faculty and researchers from the College of Chemistry, the School of Public Health, the College of Natural Resources, the Haas School of Business, and the School of Law. Interdisciplinary collaborations will aim to advance the field of green chemistry: the design, manufacture, and use of chemicals and products to reduce or eliminate adverse affects on human health and ecosystems.

Research scientists Michael P. Wilson, Ph.D. ’03, M.P.H. ’93, and Megan Schwarzman, M.D., M.P.H. ’07, and professors S. Katharine Hammond, Ph.D., C.I.H., Robert C. Spear, Ph.D., and Kirk R. Smith, Ph.D. ’77, M.P.H. ’72, were instrumental in the development of the new center.

Atlas provides guide to modern contraception

“Having a home for the School will encourage greater collaboration.”

Malcolm Potts, M.B., B.Chir., Ph.D., F.R.C.O.G., Bixby Professor of Population and Family Planning, along with Pramilla Senanayake, an international consultant in sexual and reproductive health, has edited the second edition of the Atlas of Contraception (Informa Healthcare, 2008). Filled with full-color photographs and illustrations, the new edition guides the reader through the various contraceptive options available and provides valuable educational resources on family planning and practice methods, in-depth contraceptive analysis, contraceptive counseling, reproductive health issues, and preventive medicine.

Second edition of communitybased participatory research book published A second edition of Community-Based Participatory Research for Health (JosseyBass, October 2008), edited by Meredith Minkler, Dr.P.H. ’75, and Nina Wallerstein, Dr.P.H. ’88, was published this past fall.

The book presents a complete and practical overview of the theory and application of community-based participatory research in public health. It includes information on planning and conducting research, core research methods, working with communities, and promoting social change, in addition to an appendix of tools. Minkler is professor and director of health and social behavior at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and Wallerstein is director of the Center for Participatory Research and professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque. continued on page 38

Certificate program draws health care leaders from around the world Senior health care leaders convened in Berkeley in January 2009 to hear from renowned faculty and guest speakers. The Global Health Leadership Forum is a certificate-based health program focusing on key health policy and management issues. It is offered by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health in conjunction with Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Economics and Health Research Center. The program’s alumni include 170 leaders from 40 countries, representing senior health leaders of nations and global organizations, and senior executives of enterprises such as insurance, pharmaceutical, and health care delivery. The next session of the Global Health Leadership Program will be held in Barcelona, June 28 to July 4, 2009. Visit ghlf.berkeley.edu for more information.

Participants and faculty at the January 2009 summit of the Global Health Leadership Forum

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News and Notes, continued

Kudos!

Roundtable on Healthy People 2020 holds first meeting

Bloom named to NIH study section

Back row (left to right): Jeffrey Oxendine, UC Berkeley School of Public Health (SPH); Arthur Reingold, SPH; Linda Neuhauser, SPH; Jason Corburn, UC Berkeley Department of City and Regional Planning; Michael Hughes, CDC; Loel Solomon, Kaiser Permanente; Meredith Minkler, SPH; Wendel Brunner, Contra Costa Health Services; Marion Standish, The California Endowment; Tomas Aragon, SPH; William Satariano, SPH; Linda Rudolph, California Department of Public Health; Janet Berreman, City of Berkeley Public Health Division; Carmen Nevarez, Public Health Institute. Front row (left to right): Mark Horton, California Department of Public Health; Dean Stephen Shortell, SPH; Thomas Rundall, SPH

Joan Bloom, Ph.D., is serving as a member of the Community-Level Health Promotion Study Section of the NIH Center for Scientific Review. The study section reviews applications that test the efficacy of interventions that focus on the prevention of health risk behaviors and/or adherence to disease treatments across the lifespan. Members are selected on the basis of their demonstrated competence and achievement in their scientific discipiline as evidenced by the quality of research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals, and other significant scientific activities, achievements, and honors. Bloom’s term began in July 2008 and ends in June 2012.

Recent Grants and Contracts

Buffler organizes course, elected treasurer for International Epidemiology Association

The UC Berkeley Public Health Roundtable on Healthy People 2020 held its initial meeting on December 19, 2008. The roundtable provides a neutral venue for key public health stakeholders—including leaders of the State of California Department of Public Health, local health departments, community-based service organizations, foundations, advocacy organizations, and schools of public health—to discuss the implications of Healthy People 2020 for future efforts to improve the health status of the California population.

A second roundtable was held April 10, 2009.

Below are some research projects at the School that have recently received funding: Cytomegolvirus Virulence in Immunodeficient Hosts $1,896,524 from NIH/National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases PI: Fenyong Liu The California Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Initiative Program Evaluation $1,036,750 from the Blue Shield of California Foundation PI: Helen Halpin Evaluation of MHSA Program Implementation $1,000,000 from the California Department of Mental Health PI: Richard Scheffler Study of Emerging Networks in Outbreak Response $726,706 from the National Science Foundation PIs: Christopher Ansell, Arthur Reingold, and Ann Keller

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California Senior Leaders Program to Recognize and Train Senior Leaders to Improve the Health of the Aging Population in California $435,000 from the California Wellness Foundation PI: Meredith Minkler Community Pedestrian Safety Training Project $384,405 from the California Office of Traffic Safety PI: David Ragland A Patient-Centered Strategy to Reduce Diabetes Disparities in Chinese Americans $352,621 from NIH/National Institute of Nursing Research PI: Susan Ivey Connecting the Dots: A Comprehensive Approach to Increase Health Professions Workforce Diversity in California $345,334 from the Public Health Institute/ The California Endowment PI: Stephen M. Shortell

Advancing Community-Based Participatory Research as a Strategy for Policy and Systems Change: Bringing Place-based Work to Scale $250,082 from The California Endowment PI: Meredith Minkler Migration and Health Research Program $250,000 from the Government of Mexico PD: Xochitl Castaneda The National Young Worker Safety Resource Center; Providing Health and Safety Training and Information to Young Workers and their Employers $236,111 from Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration PD: Robin Baker

Patricia Buffler, Ph.D. ’73, M.P.H. ’65, and her colleagues Eduardo Franco from McGill University and Jorn Olsen from the UCLA School of Public Health, organized a course on “Epidemiologic Research Methods and New Directors” for the International Epidemiology Association (IEA). The course was offered immediately prior to the 18th World Congress of Epidemiology, which was held September 20–21, 2008, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. A record number of registrants participated in the course, which featured more than 25 of the world’s leading epidemiologists as faculty members. Buffler, who completed her tenure as IEA’s North American regional councilor, was elected the association’s treasurer for a term ending in 2011.

Doctoral program honors faculty with Golden Apple Awards The Golden Apple Awards, presented by the Doctor of Public Health program, were established by the program’s students to

F. Smyth Jr. Award for her contributions to the industrial hygiene profession. Hammond’s early work centered on the pulmonary effects of exposures to silicon carbide in manufacturing, the carcinogenic potential of diesel exhaust exposures in railroad workers, the effects of exposure to solvents among boat builders, and the effects of exposure to machining fluids in the automobile industry.

express their appreciation for faculty support and mentorship. Lee Kaskutas, Dr.P.H. ’92, associate adjunct professor and director of training at the Alcohol Research Group, received the Distinguished Academic Partner Award; Cheri Pies, Dr.P.H. ’93, M.S.W., School of Public Health lecturer and director of Family, Maternal, and Child Health Programs for Contra Costa Health Services, received the Distinguished Community Member Award; and Joan Bloom, Ph.D., professor and chair of health policy and management, received the Distinguished School of Public Health Faculty Award.

Hammond recognized for work in industrial hygiene and secondhand smoke exposure S. Katharine Hammond, Ph.D., C.I.H., professor and chair of environmental health sciences, was honored by the American Industrial Hygiene Association with the Henry

Hammond also received the Dr. William Cahan Distinguished Professor award from the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute (FAMRI). The award— $600,000 over three years—will support Hammond’s research into the health effects of flight attendants’ exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke during their flying careers. Hammond’s work on two major studies of secondhand smoke exposure on commercial airlines led to the banning of smoking on domestic flights and was instrumental in the litigation resulting in the formation of FAMRI.

McKone recognized for work in exposure assessment, appointed to NRC committee The International Society of Exposure Science (ISES) presented Thomas McKone, Ph.D., adjunct professor of environmental health sciences, with the 2008 Jerome J. Wesolowski Award at the society’s annual conference in Pasadena, California. McKone, a senior staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, was honored for exceptional contributions to the knowledge and practice of human exposure assessment.

In addition, the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies of Science named McKone to a prestigious national committee charged with determining the true costs and benefits of energy production and consumption. continued on page 40

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Kudos!, continued Minkler honored for leadership in community-based public heath Professor of health and social behavior Meredith Minkler, Dr.P.H. ’75, received the Tom Bruce award from the Community-Based Public Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association for her tireless work over several decades to support the high-quality development and diffusion of communitybased participatory research projects in public health. She has also mentored a multitude of researchers and practitioners, and built partnerships between universities, local communities, and funders.

Nuru-Jeter receives mentoring award Assistant professor Amani Nuru-Jeter, Ph.D., M.P.H., received the Sarlo Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award, which recognizes UC Berkeley faculty for their vital role in mentoring graduate students and training future faculty. The awards are sponsored by a grant from The Sarlo Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, and Sonoma Counties.

Nuru-Jeter was recognized for her passion for research, electrifying presence in the classroom, and wise mentoring, and was extolled as a role model, particularly for female students and students of color.

Penhoet named to stem cell oversight board, elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi appointed Professor Emeritus Edward E. Penhoet, Ph.D., former dean of the School, to serve as a commercial life sciences representative on the Independent Citizen’s Oversight Committee (ICOC), which governs the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Penhoet was

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Research Highlights previously vice chairman of the ICOC, a position in which he served for nearly four years after being nominated by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In April 2009, the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, announced Penhoet’s election as an academy fellow. He will be inducted at a ceremony on October 10, 2009, at the academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Reingold elected president of epidemiologic society, appointed to top committees Arthur Reingold, M.D., associate dean for research and head of the Epidemiology Division, was elected president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER), an appointment that was announced at the society’s 41st annual meeting in Chicago. SER was established in 1968 as a forum for sharing the latest in epidemiologic research, and is committed to keeping epidemiologists at the vanguard of scientific developments.

Reingold is also a member of a new Institute of Medicine committee evaluating the next National Vaccine Plan for the United States; he is serving on a new subcommittee of the WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Pandemic Influenza Vaccines; and he is a member of the National Biosurveillance Advisory Committee for the CDC and chair of its Task Force on Animals, Food, and Vectors.

Smith honored for contributions to climate-change research Professor of global environmental health Kirk R. Smith, Ph.D. ’77, M.P.H. ’72, was one of approximately 45 East Bay scientists and academics honored at a dinner and ceremony held by the United Nations Association of the East Bay on October 24, 2008, at UC Berkeley’s International House. The honorees all contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s massive, ongoing reports on climate

change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. Smith led three of his fellow East Bay prizewinners in a discussion of the value of the climate change panel, not just in reaching scientific conclusions about the dangers of climate change, but as a model for the process of bringing worldwide expertise and consensus to bear on urgent global issues.

The evening also marked the 63rd anniversary of the UN’s founding in 1945.

Superfund researchers receive toxicology awards The Northern California Chapter of the Society of Toxicology presented its Young Investigator Award to three postdoctoral scholars in the UC Berkeley Superfund Program, which is led

by Professor of Toxicology Martyn T. Smith.

Zhiying Ji, Ph.D., was awarded first place; Xuefeng Ren, Ph.D., was awarded second place; and Matthew North, Ph.D., received third place. Ren also received Postdoctoral Competition Award from the Carcinogenesis Specialty Section of the Society of Toxicology at the society’s annual meeting in March 2009.

Wilson, Schwarzman appointed to California green chemistry panel Michael P. Wilson, Ph.D. ’03, M.P.H. ’93, and Megan Schwarzman, M.D., M.P.H. ’07, were among 27 members appointed to the California’s new Green Ribbon Science Panel, Cal/EPA’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) announced in April 2009. The advisory panel was created for California’s Green Chemistry program, an innovative approach to removing or reducing toxic chemicals in products sold in California, and was established with passage of two landmark Green Chemistry laws signed last year by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The panel will provide advice and act as a resource to DTSC and the California Environmental Policy Council in developing green chemistry regulations.

Child safety seats reduce risk of death and generally outperform seatbelts A new study confirms that child safety seats are highly effective in reducing the risk of death among children three years of age or younger involved in motor vehicle collisions. Thomas Rice, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Traffic Safety Center and co-researcher Craig L. Anderson of UC Irvine, examined data spanning 10 years (1996–2005) from the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration Fatality Analysis Reporting System. They found that unrestrained children age three or younger were three times more likely to die during serious traffic crashes than age-matched children using child safety seats. Child safety seats appear to outperform seat belts in preventing fatalities for children age one year or younger, but not for children two or three years old, among whom seat belts were roughly as effective as child safety seats.

The authors emphasize that because several other studies have found that safety seats are better than seat belts at preventing non-fatal injuries, parents should continue to use safety seats when at all possible. The findings were published online in the American Journal of Public Health.

Long-term ozone exposure linked to higher risk of death, finds nationwide study Long-term exposure to ground-level ozone, a major component of smog, is associated with

an increased risk of death from respiratory ailments, according to a new nationwide study led by Michael Jerrett, Ph.D., associate professor of environmental health sciences. The study, published in the March 12, 2009, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, analyzed the risk of death for both ozone and fine particulate matter, two of the most prevalent components of air pollution. The study followed nearly 450,000 people for two decades and covered 96 metropolitan regions in the United States. The researchers found that people living in areas with the highest concentrations of ozone, such as the Los Angeles metropolitan area and California’s Central Valley, had a 25 to 30 percent greater annual risk of dying from respiratory diseases compared with people from regions with the lowest levels of the pollutant.

Those locations included the Great Plains area and regions near San Francisco and Seattle.

Inexpensive flooring change improves child health in urban slums Replacing dirt floors with cement in the homes of urban slums makes for more comfortable living—but more importantly, it significantly improves children’s health by interrupting the transmission of intestinal parasites and boosts youngsters’ cognitive abilities, according to a new study conducted for UC Berkeley’s Center of Evaluation for Global Action. Dirt floors facilitate the spread of parasitic illness.

Paul Gertler, Ph.D., the Li Ka Shing Professor of Economics in the Haas School of Business and the School of Public Health, led the investigation. The study, detailed in the article,

“Housing, Health and Happiness,” in the February 2009 American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, concludes that replacing dirt floors with cement appears to be at least as effective for health as nutritional supplements and as helpful for brain development as early childhood development programs. Not only are young children better off when their homes have concrete rather than dirt floors, but the study also found that their mothers are less depressed, less stressed, and happier.

Babies born in pollen and mold seasons have greater odds of developing asthma symptoms Newborns whose first few months of life coincide with high pollen and mold seasons are at increased risk of developing early symptoms of asthma, suggests a new study led by Kim Harley, Ph.D. ’04, M.P.H. ’98, associate director of health effects research at UC Berkeley’s Center for Children’s Environmental Health Research. Researchers found that children born in the high mold season, which generally encompasses the fall and winter months, have three times the odds of developing wheezing–often an early sign of asthma–by age two compared with those born at other times of the year. The study results, reported online, February 24, 2009, in the journal Thorax, may help shed light on why babies born in the fall and winter appear to have a higher risk of eventually developing asthma than children born in the summer.

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Research Highlights, continued risk, including heredity and exposure to air pollution, animal dander, and tobacco smoke.

A 2008 study of birth and medical records found that babies born in the fall are at greater risk of later developing childhood asthma.

That study suggested an influence from early exposure to respiratory viruses, which is more common during the peak of cold and flu season.

Studies link maternity leave with fewer C-sections and increased breastfeeding Two new studies suggest that taking maternity leave before and after the birth of a baby is a good investment in terms of health benefits for both mothers and newborns. One study found that women who started their leave in the last month of pregnancy were less likely to have cesarean deliveries, while another found that new mothers were more likely to establish breastfeeding the longer they delayed their return to work. Both papers were part of the Juggling Work and Life During Pregnancy study, funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration and led by Sylvia Guendelman, Ph.D., M.S.W., professor of maternal and child health.

New report highlights health disparities among California’s Asian populations The most comprehensive assessment of health disparities among the state’s diverse Asian

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populations was released in April 2009 by California Assemblymember Mike Eng and the California Asian Pacific Islander Joint Legislative Caucus. One of the report’s authors, Winston Tseng, Ph.D., a research scientist at the Health Research for Action center, said that lack of data about Asians makes it difficult to understand the health risks of different Asian subgroups. According to The State of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health in California Report, Asians now comprise 14 percent of the state’s population.

The report’s authors, all members of the University’s AAPI Policy Multi-Campus Research Program, said that Asians are usually combined into one or two large racial categories. Doing so doesn’t differentiate between more than a dozen ethnic subgroups, which “differ significantly from one another in terms of demographics, health status, and health care needs.”

President’s Message published in the May 2009 issue of the journal Pediatrics, was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. Authors include Richard Scheffler, Ph.D., director of the campus’s Nicholas C. Petris Center on Health Care Markets and Consumer Welfare, and Petris Center researchers Timothy Brown, Ph.D. ’99, and Brent Fulton, Ph.D., M.B.A.

Report weighs in on increasing overweight and obesity issues in California The Legislative Task Force on Diabetes & Obesity Report to the California Legislature, a 42-page report being distributed to California lawmakers, covers the impact of obesity and

ADHD medication can improve math and reading scores, study suggests Pediatricians and educators have long known that psycho-stimulant medications can help children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) concentrate on learning for short periods of time. But a new UC Berkeley study has found evidence that grade schoolers with ADHD who take medications can actually improve their long-term academic achievement, and make greater gains in standardized math and reading scores than students with ADHD who do not take medications. The study,

Dear Alumni and Friends: Warm greetings on behalf of the Public Health Alumni Association (PHAA) board of directors! Over the past year, our very dedicated board has been busy working on a variety of activities, some of which I will describe here in my first message to you. I am truly honored to serve as president of the PHAA board of directors and look forward to a long and fruitful collaborative partnership with our alumni, current students (future alumni!), and the School and its friends.

First, please join me in welcoming our five new directors: Shahram Ahari, M.P.H., ’05; R. Berna Atik Watson, M.D., M.P.H. ’99; Timothy M. Sankary, M.D., M.P.H. ’80; Rosa Vivian Fernandez, M.P.H. ’91; and Michael L. Fischman, M.P.H. ’82. Each has joined us for a three-year term beginning in July 2009. I would also like to thank our five outgoing members of the board. Laurel Davis, M.P.H. ’94, C.I.H., has worked on the Alumni Network/Outreach Committee as well as the Continuing Education and Professional Development Committee. Joan Lam, B.S. ’62, has worked on the Scholarship Committee, the Fund Development Committee, and the Alumni Network/Outreach Committee. Joan has also contributed to the Communications Advisory Board and the Reshetko Scholarship Committee.

Julie Brown, M.B.A., M.P.H. ’85, served as chair of the inaugural Fund Development Committee, successfully raising funds for student scholarships. P. Robert Beatty, Ph.D. ’94, served on the Scholarship Committee for three years, awarding scholarships to deserving students, and he also contributed to helping recruit outstanding new board members by his participation on the Nominations Committee, chaired by outgoing board member, Harvey Bichkoff, M.P.H. ’85.

In addition, Harvey has volunteered on the Alumni Network/Outreach Committee. We sincerely thank each member for enriching our board these past years.

We are pleased to announce that this year, thanks to the commitment of our alumni and friends, we were able to offer 65 PHAA scholarships in the amount of $1,500 each for the 2009–2010 academic year. Scholarship recipients and donors who made the awards possible will be honored during our Scholarship Tea, traditionally held in the fall. Alumni have identified student scholarships as a priority for PHAA, and we are delighted to make progress on this front. We believe that offering these kinds of scholarships is part of what has attracted almost 800 applications for our various master’s programs—up significantly over last year!

diabetes in the state. It was written by task force members M.R.C. Greenwood of UC Davis, Patricia B. Crawford, Dr.P.H. ’94, R.D., codirector of the Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Center for Weight and Health at UC Berkeley, and Rudy Ortiz of UC Merced. The report includes recommendations on how to combat the problems that lead to obesity—for example, developing tax incentive programs to encourage employers to adopt policies that make healthy eating and physical activity easier for workers, increasing meal reimbursement for schools that provide fresh fruits and vegetables to students for breakfast and lunch, increasing school funding for physical education, and creating a public education campaign that encourages healthy lifestyle choices.

Finally, we held our fourth annual Silent Auction on April 30, and it was wildly successful, raising almost $9,000 for student scholarships. The Silent Auction continues to be an effective vehicle in helping us raise funds to support student scholarships and other priorities identified through our alumni surveys.

We will continue to focus on our priority areas (scholarships, professional development, and diversity in public health) and increase active participation in our membership. We will be conducting new alumni surveys over the coming year to make sure we are in touch with you.

Meanwhile, if you are already interested in partnering with us in one way or the other, please contact me through Eileen Pearl, director of external relations programs, at phaa@berkeley.edu.

Public Health Alumni Association Board of Directors 2008–2009 John J. Troidl, Ph.D. ‘01, M.B.A. (President) Melinda Lassman, M.A. ‘75, M.S. ‘77 (Vice President) Lucinda Brannon Bazile, M.P.H. ‘94 (Secretary-Treasurer) Beth Roemer, M.P.H. ‘76 (Secretary-Treasurer) P. Robert Beatty, Ph.D. ‘94 Harvey Bichkoff, M.P.H. ‘85 Julie Brown, M.B.A., M.P.H. ‘85 Laurel Davis, M.P.H. ‘94 Jonathan Frisch, Ph.D. ‘90, M.P.H. ‘87 David Harrington, M.P.H. ‘88 Joan Lam, B.S. ‘62

Sincerely,

Sally Lawrence, M.P.H. ‘06 Kelvin Quan, J.D., M.P.H. ‘81 Jan Schilling, M.P.H. ‘91

John Troidl, Ph.D. ‘01, M.B.A. President, Public Health Alumni Association

Karen Shore, Ph.D. ‘98 Maxine Tatmon-Gilkerson, M.P.H. ‘91

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Alumni Notes 1950s Bernice Robertson, M.P.H. ’55, received a 2008 Jefferson Award—which honors outstanding community volunteers—in a ceremony at the Steinbeck Center in Salinas, California. A tireless fundraiser, she has donated her time for the past 15 years to Camp Opportunity, which provides a summer respite for children involved with Santa Cruz County Child Protective Services. Her other volunteer activities include working at Second Harvest food distribution centers, organizing the Santa Cruz County’s annual Adopt-A-Family holiday gift program, working as an on-site nurse for an

annual Rotary bicycle ride fundraiser, giving flu shots to seniors, and collecting socks for Romanian children. The Jefferson Award was created by the American Institute for Public Service and is sponsored by KSBW-TV8, HSBC Card Services, and Salinas Valley Healthcare System.

David C. Gan, B.S. ’56 “Post-retirement from the California State Health Department activities: Center for Learning in Retirement, Alumni Association scholarship evaluations and interviews, published a paper ‘Liquid Water on Mars’ on mission to Mars, campus projects. The Phoenix confirmed our idea that liquid water is possible on Mars.”

Marmot honored for health services research Sir Michael Marmot Ph.D. ’75, M.P.H. ’72, a professor at the University College London, was selected as the 2008 recipient of the William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research in recognition of his lifelong achievements and contributions to the field of health services research. The prize, sponsored by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) and The Baxter International Foundation, was awarded on June 7, 2008, at the AUPHA annual meeting in Washington, D.C. “Professor Marmot’s research has revolutionized our thinking about the causes of heart disease and other illnesses,” said Thomas Rundall, executive associate dean of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and chair of the award selection committee. “He documented that one’s socioeconomic position, and in particular the mental benefits of being in control of one’s life, are important determinants of health.”

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explanations for the inverse social gradient in morbidity and mortality, such as the link between low control at work and increased risk of cardiovascular disease. In addition, he is the principal investigator of the Whitehall Studies of British civil servants and leads the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. “[Marmot’s] work has transformed our understanding of the causes of health inequities, inspired new approaches to human resource management, and motivated many innovative community-based programs to strengthen social capital,” said Rundall.

The William B. Graham Prize, established in 2005, is the most prestigious and highly regarded recognition an individual researcher can receive in a career of health services research. The individual receives $25,000 and a designated institution supportive of the winner’s work also receives $25,000, ensuring that the prize builds support for health services research within higher education, government, and research communities.

“Improving the health of those who are socially disadvantaged is a reward in itself,” said Marmot. “To receive a prestigious award for this work is a way of highlighting this whole field of endeavor, in which many of us have been involved. I am delighted.”

Glenn Hildebrand, M.P.H. ’57, was recently named chairman of the California Dialogue on Cancer, which is implementing the state plan for cancer control.

Chhanganbhai B. Bhakta, B.S. ’58 “I am so happy that I made it to 50 years since I left UC in 1958. (I joined in 1956 for one year for the M.P.H. program, and then got a B.S. in 1958 in environmental sanitation, and an R.S. Certificate from the State of California Health Department in 1958 also.)

As a foreign student from India, I could not accept employment. I had to leave the country in 1959.

There was no job for me in India. Luckily, I worked in England from 1959 to 1964, for the Leeds Hospital Board, as a scientific officer in the Ministry of Health, and as a food technologist-microbiologist with Marsh & Baxter Ltd., Birmingham, England. I came to study health education at San Diego State University in 1965, qualified with a civil service examination, and joined the Los Angeles County Health Department as a public health microbiologist. I retired from the County of Los Angeles in 1995. My wife Sarojben and I became U.S. citizens in 1972. We have one son, Sanjay, who is working with Kaiser Permanente in internal medicine as a physician, and three granddaughters. Love and happiness prevail 50 years after my graduation from the University of California. I am satisfied and enjoying my family life in this adopted country, U.S.A.”

1960s James Lee Dallas, M.P.H. ’66, taught public health education to nursing students at a vocational school in Xinyang, China, for four months in 2008.

Snehendu Kar, Dr.P.H. ’66, M.P.H. ’64, retired on March 1, 2009, after three decades of teaching at UCLA. He has accepted an invitation to join the Public Health Foundation of India as Distinguished Professor and academic adviser. Kar served in many leadership positions at UCLA, including associate dean and chair of the thensingle-department School of Public Health; founding director of the Executive Style M.P.H. program (Community Health Sciences); founding director of the Public Health Practice Office; head of the Behavioral Sciences and Health Education Division; and chair of Asian American Studies.

1970s Robert A. Schwartz, M.D., M.P.H. ’70, is completing his 25th year as professor and head of dermatology at the New Jersey Medical School. The second edition of his book, Skin Cancer: Recognition and Management, was recently published (Blackwell, 2008).

Marsha Epstein, M.D., M.P.H. ’71 “After 25 years as medical director of various public health clinics in L.A. County, I transferred in Sept. ’07 to chronic disease and injury prevention. I’m working on physician education about tobacco.”

Daniel Lindheim, Ph.D., M.C.P., M.P.H. ’72, was appointed Oakland city administrator by Mayor Ron Dellums, after serving as acting city administrator for seven months. He was unanimously confirmed by the Oakland City Council on February 5, 2009. Before that, he served as interim director of Oakland’s Community and Economic Development Agency.

Alice L. Royal, M.P.H. ’72, authored the book Allensworth, the Freedom Colony: A California African American Township.

Released to coincide with Allensworth’s centennial celebration, the book tells the story of how, from 1908 to 1918, some 300 families relocated to California’s Central Valley to establish a town African Americans could call their own. Allensworth now exists as Col. Allensworth State Historic Park. Royal, a descendant of the town’s first settlers, has volunteered for the park for the past 30 years.

Betty Olson, Ph.D. ’74, has been appointed to the Western States Water Council. She has served at UC Irvine for more than 30 years, currently as professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering. She is also founding director of the Urban Water Research Center, where she has served as associate director since 2006 and was interim director from 2001 to 2003.

George Cernada, Dr.P.H. ’75, M.P.H. ’65 “Still editing International Quarterly of Community Health Education—now in 27th volume/year.”

Jared Fine, D.D.S., M.P.H. ’75, dental health administrator for the Alameda County Department of Public Health in Oakland, received the Myron Allukian Jr. Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievements in Community Dental Programs during the American Association of Community Dental Program’s Annual Meeting in April 2008. He was honored for his exemplary service to communities, distinguished leadership, creativity in promoting essential public health services, achieving results through collaborative efforts with other health professionals and organizations, and demonstrating sensitivity to addressing the needs of special populations.

Michael Williams, M.S. ’75, was recently elected a fellow of the American Industrial Hygiene Association.

Daniel S. Janik, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. ’77, has published a book, Footprints, Smiles and Little White Lies, a compendium of his awardwinning poems from the 1960s and 1970s, including the poem “Ministry of Peace.” In the work, Janik touches on a number of social issues of the 1960s that he believes have begun to resurface. A retired physician, he currently teaches English and writing at Intercultural Communications College in Honolulu, where he is also director of American academic programs.

Atwood D. Gaines, Ph.D., C.Phil., M.A., M.P.H. ’78, was named editor-in-chief of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry: An International Journal of Cross-Cultural Health Research. He is also professor of anthropology, bioethics, nursing, and psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University and its schools of nursing and medicine in Cleveland.

Margaret Stahler, Ph.D., N.D., M.P.H. ’78, has opened Madrona Naturopathic Clinic in Philomath, Oregon. She studied naturopathic medicine at Bastyr University in Seattle. Her specialty is in cranial sacral therapy— a light-touch osteopathic therapy—practiced as energy medicine.

Patrick Sweeney, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. ’78, received the Women & Infants Medical Staff Association Distinguished Service Award at Women & Infants Hospital’s 125th Annual Meeting in December 2008. He has served the Providence, R.I., hospital for more than two decades and currently directs the Division of Ambulatory Care. He has also been associate dean of medicine for continuing medical education at Brown University since 1992 and a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

1980s M. Bridget Ahrens, M.P.H. ’81, was elected to the board of directors of the American Immunization Registry Association.

Merle Lustig, M.P.H. ’81, is director of partnerships, policy, research, and evaluation at the UC Santa Cruz Educational Partnership Center.

She lives in Santa Cruz with her husband Ron and son Ben. Linda Rudolph, M.D., M.P.H. ’81, was appointed deputy director for the Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in the California Department of Public Health by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in July 2008. From 2005 to 2008, she was health officer and director of public health for the city of Berkeley. From 2001 to 2005, she served as chief medical officer for the California Department of Health Services and as a medical consultant in Medi-Cal Managed Care.

Angela Browne-Miller, Ph.D., D.S.W., M.P.H. ’83, had two books come out in Spring 2009: Raising Thinking Children and Teens: Guiding Mental and Moral Development (ABC-Clio), and the Praeger International Collection on Addictions (Praeger-Greenwood). She has written some 20 books, including To Have and to Hurt: Recognizing and Changing, or Escaping, Patterns of Abuse in Intimate Relationships (Praeger-Greenwood, 2007), and hundreds of articles, and has lectured at UC Berkeley for more than a decade. She is director of the Metaxis Institute based in Corte Madera, California. continued on page 46

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Alumni Notes, continued Marilyn Silva, Ph.D. ’84 “I work for the Department of Pesticide Regulation at Cal EPA and every day I use information I learned in my Ph.D. program at Cal!” Ann-Marie Askew, M.P.H. ’85 “Retired and living in Eugene, Oregon. I volunteer on the hotline of a domestic violence agency, usher at a performing arts center, hike and snowshoe with an outdoors club, and work on my memoir.”

Harvey D. Bichkoff, M.P.H. ’85, coauthored a chapter, “Job Application and Contract Negotiation in Community Practice,” in a book titled, Achieving Career Success in Oncology, A Practice Guide.

A publication of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the book is designed as a guide for early career decisions for fellows and physicians beginning their job search in both academia and private practice.

Elaine (Moquette) Magee, M.P.H. ’85, R.D. “Just wanted to let you all know about my latest book, Food Synergy (Rodale). There’s more and more evidence that certain components in the foods and beverages we consume interact with each other to give our bodies extra disease protection and a higher level of health.

It’s when 1 + 1 = 4! To find out more about the book, visit amazon.com or www.recipedoctor.com.”

Robert L. Wiebe, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H. ’85, joined Catholic Healthcare West, the nation’s eighth largest hospital system, as senior vice president/chief medical officer. He leads all clinical and patient care services throughout the organization’s 41 hospitals across California, Arizona, and Nevada, including quality, patient safety, patient satisfaction, risk services, and physician leadership development. Most recently, he was director of the Veterans Integrated Service Network 21 in San Francisco.

Ken Bogen, Dr.P.H. ’86, M.P.H. ’82, has joined the Oakland office of Exponent, Inc., as a

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managing scientist for environmental exposure, toxicity, and risk analysis projects, after 21 years as a UC environmental scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Since his doctoral work at the School of Public Health, he has served in the following capacities: Member of the National Research Council (NRC) committees that issued Science and Judgment in Risk Assessment (1994) and Review of the Army’s Technical Guides on Assessing and Managing Chemical Hazards to Deployed Personnel (2004); president of the Northern California Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis (1995); chair of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s Chronic Hazards Advisory Panel on Diisononyl Phthalate (2000–2001); chair of the 2006 Naphthalene State of the Science Symposium Metabolism and Mode of Action Panel; and expert panelist at the 2007 Workshop on Uncertainty in Cancer Risk Based on Bioassay Data, held by the NRC Standing Committee on Risk Analysis Issues and Reviews.

Bruce S. Steir, M.D., M.P.H. ’86 has published a new memoir, Jailhouse Journal of an OB/GYN (www.jailhousejournal.com).

Written during his six-month incarceration, Steir’s book traces his career as an OB/GYN and a full-time abortion provider. In 1996, a patient died following complications from a second trimester abortion in Riverside County, California. Ten months later, Steir was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. In a much-publicized case, Steir surrendered his medical license and pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter. The memoir gives insights into his motivations to study medicine, become an OB/GYN and provide abortions, his experiences as an intern, resident, and medical officer in the U.S. military, and his anecdotal experiences in the jailhouse environment while incarcerated. Steir writes, “Riverside County Court has expunged my conviction.

I have been reelected for a third term as senior senator in the California Senior Legislature.”

Jean (Droney) Stoll, M.P.H. ’86 “I have been working at Beale Air Force Base for the past year and a half. After spending many years working

in university and community health, I find working in a military setting very challenging and exciting!

It would be great to hear from old friends. Drop me a line at jean.stoll.ctr@us.af.mil.”

Marilyn Winkleby, Ph.D., ’86, M.P.H. ’83, was selected to win the 2008 Athena award from the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce in recognition of her work with the Stanford Medical Youth Science Program. Founded by Winkleby in 1988, the program recruits low-income high school students to attend a five-week summer biomedical program led by undergraduates at Stanford. The national Athena honor, awarded by local organizations, honors women who have demonstrated excellence, creativity, and initiative, who have devoted time to improving the lives of others and who help other women leaders.

Gary Pasternak, M.D., M.P.H. ’87, was named medical director for Hospice of the Valley—a provider in advancing palliative end-of-life care and community grief education in Santa Clara County—in Dec. 2008. Since 1989, he has been associate chief for primary care internal medicine at Santa Clara County Health and Hospital System, where he practices and teaches in the internal medicine residency program, and he is currently attending on Palliative Care Consult Service. He is board-certified in internal medicine and in hospice and palliative medicine.

Lucky Ehigiator, Dr.P.H. ’89, M.P.H. ’83, is the pioneer dean of the College of Health Sciences at Tubman University in Liberia, where he is working to build the regional institution from scratch. The college will offer seven degree programs in public health.

Gopal Sankaran, M.D., Dr.P.H. ’89, M.P.H. ’83, won the 2008 Mid-Career Award in International Health from the American Public Health Association and was elected to a second two-year term as governing councilor of the American Public Health Association, representing the International Health Section.

1990s Jason Eberhart-Phillips, M.D., M.P.H. ’90, was named state health officer and director of health at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in Feb. 2009.

As director of the department’s Division of Health, he oversees more than 400 employees. He had been serving as health officer for El Dorado County, California, since 2006, and prior to that, he was a senior lecturer in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He also served as chronic disease director for the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, and in the early 1990s as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer for the CDC. He received his medical degree from UCSF. Lou Fintor, Ph.D., M.P.H. ’90, became the press attaché and country information officer for the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, in Aug. 2008. His responsibilities include acting as the embassy’s spokesman as well as facilitating media interviews, press briefings, and other activities with the ambassador and other embassy officials. He was previously press attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, spokesman at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, and had press assignments at the U.S. Mission to NATO, Brussels, and at the U.S. Office in Pristina, Kosovo.

Rob Tufel, M.S.W., M.P.H. ’90, recently began a new job as executive director of the Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation, a newly formed family foundation dedicated to funding brain tumor (glioma) research. For the past 12 years he was executive director of the National Brain Tumor Foundation.

Garrett Brown, M.P.H. ’91, mobilized eight experts from the Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network (a volunteer network of 400 occupational health and safety professionals) to travel to Cananea, Mexico.

The purpose was to investigate occupational and environmental health hazards facing 1,200 employees on strike from their jobs with the multinational

Nevarez Elected Next President of APHA Carmen Nevarez, M.D., M.P.H. ’88, will be the next president of the American Public Health Association (APHA), the nation’s oldest and largest organization for public health professionals. The association’s governing council elected her in Oct. 2008 during its session at the 136th APHA Annual Meeting in San Diego. Nevarez is a former member of APHA’s executive board and served as vice president of APHA’s Latino Caucus. She will serve one year as APHA president-elect before assuming the presidency at the close of the 137th APHA Annual Meeting, which will be held Nov. 7-11, 2009, in Philadelphia. Past presidents of APHA include UC Berkeley School of Public Health professor emerita and former dean Joyce C. Lashof, M.D., and alumnus Michael Bird, M.P.H. ’83.

Nevarez is vice president for external relations and preventive medicine adviser at the independent nonprofit Public Health Institute, where she is responsible for public health advocacy, incubating new project areas, and developing relationships with health and public health organizations and interests.

She also serves as co-investigator for the California Comparative Teen Birth Rate Study. Nevarez was formerly the health officer and department director of the City of Berkeley’s Health and Human Services Department. She is past president of the California Public Health Association–North and former board chair of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy.

employer, Grupo Mexico. The team conducted interviews with 70 striking miners, tested their lung function, and provided physician consultations to discuss test results. The final report was issued in Jan. 2008.

Brown presented the findings to a national forum of the Mexican Ministers union in Cananea the following month.

Claudia (Colindres) Johnson, M.P.P., M.P.H. ’92, joined Pro Bono Net in April 2008 as court collaboration circuit rider. She was previously part of the management team at Bay Area Legal Aid in Oakland, where she implemented and managed the Legal Advice Line, a team of cross trained multilingual advocates providing real time counsel and advice in four areas of law across seven counties. Prior to that, she was a supervising attorney at the Volunteer Legal Services Program in San Francisco. She supervised the pro bono panel for eviction and consumer defense cases, and intake and placement for eviction, consumer, federal, and family law. She started her legal services career in Philadelphia, where she was a Skadden Fellow working on managed care. In addition to her degree from the School of Public Health, she is a graduate of the Goldman School of Public Policy at

UC Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Donna Abrams, M.B.A., M.P.H. ’93, has joined Alameda Alliance for Health as quality oversight manager. The Alliance is a not-for-profit health plan that provides health care coverage to nearly 90,000 low-income residents of Alameda County. In her new role, she will ensure that the Alliance maintains and continually improves its process to address all quality, service, or other issues brought forward by Alliance members or by physicians or other health care providers that offer services to Alliance members. She has 25 years’ experience in the health care arena and most recently was a compliance and privacy practice specialist for TPMG Kaiser Permanente in Oakland.

Cheri Pies, Dr.P.H. ’93, M.P.H. ‘85, was elected to the board of directors of the National Women’s Health Network, a membership-based organization working to improve the health of all women by developing and promoting a critical analysis of health issues in order to affect policy and support consumer decision making. continued on page 48

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Alumni Notes, continued Bird and D’Onofrio Named 2009 Alumni of the Year Two distinguished alumni—one a champion for Native American health, the other a community health educator and professor emerita— accepted Alumni of the Year awards at the School of Public Health’s 2009 Commencement on May 16.

Michael E. Bird, M.P.H. ’83, is past president of the American Public Health Association (2000–2001) and was the first Native American and first social worker ever to hold that office. A public health consultant, he has more than 25 years of public health experience in the areas of medical social work, substance abuse prevention, health promotion and disease prevention, HIV/AIDS prevention, behavioral health, and health care administration.

Most recently he served as regional director for the implementation of a statewide behavioral health program for Native Americans in New Mexico with ValueOptions–New Mexico, a national behavioral health company. Prior to that, he served as executive director of the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center, where he increased and strengthened the provision of technical assistance in HIV programs for American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaii communities. He worked with the United States Public Health Service for more than 20 years, from 1977 to 2000. In 2003 he received the Minority Congressional Caucuses Healthcare Hero Award.

Carol D’Onofrio, Dr.P.H. ’73, M.P.H. ’60, is a professor emerita at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and an active research scientist studying breast cancer, prostate cancer, and tobacco-related diseases. She has collaborated with community organizations to improve breast screening access for women with disabilities and to increase quality-of-life for both survivors and patients nearing the end of life. As a faculty member at the School for 30 years, she headed the program in community health education, mentoring numerous students, leading research projects, and teaching graduate courses in social and behavioral theory, community organization, research methods, group dynamics, and health program planning and evaluation. Since her retirement in 1994, she has consulted on research and evaluation projects and volunteered on boards of numerous organizations. Throughout her career, she has been committed to protecting and promoting the health of vulnerable populations. Her particular passion is actively involving stakeholders in the development, delivery, and evaluation of evidence-based, culturally appropriate, and sustainable intervention programs in community, school, and clinical settings.

Bruce Kieler, Dr.P.H. ’94, M.P.H. ’88, received a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar Award in Global/ Public Health for 2007–2008.

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and safety strategies in villages in rural and semirural areas of southern India. While in India, he was affiliated with the Y.R. Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

After returning, he presented a poster session titled “Fulbright Grants for International Studies” at the 5th Annual International Educational Conference in Houston. In Oct. 2007, Kieler attended the 4th Annual Tamil Epigraphy Workshop held at the

University of Paris. While at the Sorbonne, he was invited to present a lecture on the methodological issues relevant to the study of community participation in health planning in India. Kieler also received a National Science Foundation Fellowship in 2007, which enabled him to participate in the annual Bio-Link Summer Fellows Forum held at UC Berkeley.

Laura Thomas, M.P.P., M.P.H ’95, has joined Drug Policy Alliance Network (DPA) as deputy state director, San Francisco, where she oversees DPA’s Model City Initiative for San Francisco. She has 20 years’ experience in HIV and public health policy.

She first became involved in AIDS as an activist with ACT UP in San Francisco. Most recently, she was a consultant specializing in HIV policy and planning, with clients ranging from the California State Office of AIDS to the National Association of People with AIDS. Before that, she worked for Tenderloin Health and Continuum HIV Day Services, nonprofit health and social service providers serving a predominantly homeless population in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, and for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. She has been a needle exchange volunteer for more than 10 years.

Dan Gentry, Ph.D. ’96, M.H.A., has moved to Chicago to join the faculty of the Department of Health Systems Management at Rush University Medical Center, after 13 years at the St. Louis University School of Public Health.

Simon Craddock Lee, Ph.D., M.P.H. ’98 “After four years in Washington, D.C., I wrapped up a postdoctoral appointment as a cancer prevention fellow in the ethics of prevention and public health.

This summer I joined the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to pursue interests I began to develop back at Berkeley. Like UCSF, Southwestern is a graduate health sciences research campus built around a medical school.

Being the only medical anthropologist presents many opportunities, and I’m excited about growing the medical humanities in Dallas and planning population (social/behavioral) sciences at the Cancer Center. Dallas could not be more different than the Bay Area, yet I’m having a blast! Come visit—the smoking ban is in the works!”

Karen Shore, Ph.D. ’98 “After two years as a director at the Center for Health Improvement (CHI) in Sacramento, I’m now serving as interim president and CEO. CHI is a national, independent, nonprofit health policy and technical assistance organization dedicated to improving population health and encouraging healthy behaviors. With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research, we have two major projects underway to provide technical assistance to communities across the country working collaboratively to improve health care quality and manage costs.”

Caroline Tanner, M.D., Ph.D. ’98, received an Excellence in Achievement award from the California Alumni Association at the Charter Gala on April 5, 2008. One of the most prominent researchers studying Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, Tanner researched the emergence of Parkinson’s in identical and fraternal twins, testing the strength of genetic and environmental factors.

Her current work investigates the link between Parkinson’s and pesticides. She hopes to compare maps of California showing concentrations of Parkinson’s cases and areas of high pesticide use.

She is a member of the scientific advisory board for the Michael J. Fox Foundation and an adviser for the U.S. Congress-directed agenda for Parkinson’s disease research.

2000s Susan Chapman, Ph.D. ’00, was appointed associate professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Nursing at UCSF in Aug. 2008. She teaches in the master’s and doctoral programs in health policy in nursing.

Her expertise is in the area of health workforce supply and demand analysis, strategic planning, job satisfaction and career commitment, and workforce diversity and career development.

She has a particular focus on the long-term care workforce and planning for the future care of older and disabled populations. She will be expanding her research to examine the dynamics of the global health workforce.

Urmimala Sarkar, M.D., M.P.H. ’00 “I recently joined the faculty at UCSF’s School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine. I study patient safety for vulnerable chronic disease populations. I am particularly interested in health communication and safety, and applying health information technology to this issue. I enjoy living in San Francisco with my husband Ted Omachi, our son Nikaash, age 2.5, and our daughter Mihika, 4 months.”

Craig van Roekens, M.D., M.B.A., M.P.H. ’00, was appointed chief medical officer at Manhattan’s Physician Group, the borough’s largest multispecialty medical group providing comprehensive and coordinated health care. He has 20 years’ experience as a clinician in emergency medicine and as a physician executive in academic and community-based medical groups.

Madhavi Dandu, M.D., M.P.H. ’04, has been “around the world and back.” First she was in Ann Arbor, Michigan; from there she returned to San Francisco, working at UCSF as an inpatient internal medicine physician. During that time, she returned to Berkeley as an academic adviser for the Interdisciplinary M.P.H. Program. Then she and her husband Nima took a seven-month journey through Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Now she is back in San Francisco. “Much of my time is spent at UCSF in the hospital seeing patients and reaching residents and medical students,” she writes. “But I also started directing the Global Health Program for the Internal Medicine residency program. In this role I have the opportunity to design the curriculum for the program, and I have included some of the concepts and ideas that we learned in public health, such as the global burden of disease, community-based participatory research, and human rights work. I also had the opportunity to co-teach a medical student elective on health and human rights. ... Last but not least, Nap [Hosang] has invited me back as the academic coordinator for the Interdisciplinary M.P.H. Program.”

Dianna Edgil, Ph.D., ’04, was named an American Association for the Advancement of Science Technology Fellow. The fellows are scientists and engineers from early to senior career stages who spend a year working in federal agencies or congressional offices. They learn about science policy while providing valuable science and technology expertise and analysis to the executive and legislative branches of government.

Lars Osterberg, M.P.H. ’05, received the Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize from Stanford University’s Office of Public Affairs. The prize recognizes Stanford faculty who engage and involve students in integrating academic scholarship with significant and meaningful volunteer service.

Osterberg is a clinical assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of general internal medicine at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System. He was responsible for establishing Cardinal Free Clinics (CFC) as the administrative body that operates two free clinics in the area: the Arbor Free Clinic and the Pacific Free Clinic. In his capacity as director of CFC, Osterberg has supervised scores of students and other providers who, as volunteers, provide free medical care on weekends to medically needy members of the community.

Kim Gilhuly, M.P.H. ’07 “I am now working at the Alameda County Public Health Department in the Community Assessment, Planning, and Evaluation Unit as an evaluator, as well as doing health impact assessment.”

Rohan Radhakrishna, M.P.H. ’07, was chosen in March 2008 to receive a Rotary ambassadorial scholarship by Rotary District 5710 in northeastern Kansas. The scholarship provides expenses for him to study abroad for one year. A third-year medical student in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program, Radhakrishna is spending the year studying epidemiology at Christian Medical College in Vellore, India.

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In Memoriam

In Memoriam

In Memoriam Elise Blumenfeld, Ph.D., M.S.W., M.P.H. ’78, died March 6, 2009, at age 77. Born in New Orleans, she moved to Berkeley with her first husband, Marvin Wolff, with whom she had three children. She received her bachelor’s degree and master’s degrees in social work and public health from UC Berkeley and served on the UC Berkeley Public Health Alumni Association board of directors.

She earned a doctorate from the Institute for Clinical Social Work. In 1976, she married Neal Blumenfeld, and the two later opened a psychotherapy practice together. She founded many social work psychotherapy movements in the Bay Area, ran a clinic in Oakland for 10 years, and started the Sanville Institute in Berkeley, which offers education and professional growth for psychotherapists.

Leland C. Brown, M.P.H. ’85, died Feb. 26, 2008, at the age of 59. Born in Oakland, he received his bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley and an M.P.H. in health policy and planning from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, which awarded him the distinguished Alumni Scholarship Award. In 1980 he moved to Thailand to organize laboratories and teach laboratory skills to refugee Cambodian health workers living along the border.

While working in Khao-I-Dang refugee camp, he met his future wife, Leigh Pierson-Brown, M.P.H. ’85, who was working there as a pediatric nurse practitioner. In 1982, he worked in Nicaragua as a member of the team that collaborated with the Ministry of Health to develop the International Health Colloquia. He was the first executive director of the Oakland Health Academy and also worked for the City of Oakland as a budget analyst. The owner and founder of Global Bridges Group, he consulted all over the United States on change process, the power of teams, and diversity. He is survived by his wife and two children.

Eugene S. Darling died at his home in El Cerrito in Dec. 2008 at age 65. He began his career at Berkeley as a graduate student in 1967, and worked at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health’s Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP) from its inception in 1974. He ultimately became its principal editor and coordinator of its publishing program. He started LOHP’s first publication, The Monitor, and edited and helped write dozens

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Selma Dritz, Early Heroine of the AIDS Epidemic Selma K. Dritz, M.D., M.P.H. ’67, died September 3, 2008, in Oakland. She was 91. A San Francisco public health physician who tracked the city’s earliest AIDS cases, she was widely regarded as a heroine of the AIDS epidemic.

Dritz was born in Chicago and earned her medical degree at the University of Illinois.

She earned her master’s degree in public health at UC Berkeley just before joining the San Francisco health department as assistant director of the Bureau of Communicable Disease Control.

She remained in the San Francisco health department throughout her career.

In May and early June 1981, she and Dr. Erwin Braff noticed a few cases of a rare pneumonia that was killing young gay men in San Francisco. Dritz reported that information to the CDC. Along with five similar cases from Los Angeles, this was the first recorded evidence of the incipient AIDS epidemic. Because of her prior work tracing cases of amoebic dysentery, syphilis, and gonorrhea within the city’s gay community, Dritz’s patients within the community trusted her, and she was able to trace their contacts and counsel them about safe sex. She was also the first to identify Burkitt’s lymphoma as an AIDS-defining illness.

Her role in the early years of the AIDS epidemic was dramatized in the 1993 film And the Band Played On. In 1988, she was named Alumna of the Year by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

Dritz is survived by a son, two daughters, and two grandsons.

of resources for unions, workers, community organizations, health and legal professionals, and others. He is survived by his brother and sister and their families.

Fredrick W. Egli died December 20, 2008, at his home in Walnut Creek. Born in Berkeley, he graduated from high school in El Cerrito and then attended UC Berkeley. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering cum laude from Duke University in 1957. As a student, he worked for Westinghouse on the first nuclear submarine.

He served in the U.S. Navy and taught electronics to Marines during the Korean War. He worked at Aerojet General Nucleonics, Applied Radiation, and Siemens Oncology, from which he retired as vice president of manufacturing operations in 1995.

He was a committed supporter of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health along with his wife of 60 years, Viola Egli, who survives him. He is also is survived by three children, three grandchildren, two sisters, and three brothers.

Daniel H. Fletcher, M.P.H. ’56, B.S. ’54, died September 23, 2008, at his home in Martinez, California, at age 82. Born in Portland, Oregon, he attended Reed College for two years before transferring to UC Berkeley, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in public health with highest honors in 1954. Two years later, he earned a master’s degree in hospital administration from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. He and his first wife, Eleanor Fletcher, shared a passion for public service and each had long careers in public health administration.

He served as a hospital administrator for Kaiser Permanente at several facilities in Northern California.

In the 1970s, he joined Kaiser International and consulted on hospital design and administration in several countries. He was stationed in Curacao and Bahrain. He and Eleanor, who died in 1997, are survived by their three children. He is also survived by his wife, Gaye Fletcher.

Frances Jones Freitas, B.A. ’44, died September 28, 2008. She was a life member of the California Alumni Association. She worked 44 years as a medical laboratory technologist in several hospitals in Oakland and the last 20 years at St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, California. She is survived by her husband, Daniel D. Freitas.

Alfred Hexter, Ph.D., M.A. ’58, B.A. ’56, died Nov. 16, 2007. A graduate and former staff member of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, he later worked with the California Department of Health Services. He is survived by his wife, Stella Hexter.

Alvin R. Leonard, M.D., M.P.H. ’71, a onetime director of public health for the city of Berkeley, died April 20, 2008, at age 90. Born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, he received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA in 1938 and graduated at the head of his class from the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1942. The following year, he joined the U.S. Army and served in Europe as an anesthesiologist in the 5th Auxiliary Surgical Group. As the city of Berkeley’s public health director from 1957 to 1970, he launched a campaign to promote use of seatbelts before they were standard equipment in U.S. automobiles, helped establish the Berkeley Free Clinic, was an early proponent of tobacco control, and monitored sanitary conditions at the request of Native Americans during their 1969 occupation of Alcatraz. In 1963, he coauthored a landmark book, Public Administration: A Public Health Viewpoint, with longtime colleague and friend Henrik L. Blum.

He received his master’s degree in public health from UC Berkeley in 1971. After teaching for five years at the University of Arizona, he returned to California for a variety of posts in state and county health departments. Among his achievements was the establishment of statewide programs to control high blood pressure among different ethnic groups.

He continued to consult on public health affairs after his retirement in 1984. He is survived by his wife, Pearl, and two daughters.

Walter Nelson-Rees, Ph.D., died January 23, 2009, in San Francisco. He was 80. A UC Berkeley geneticist, he was best known for having discovered and sounded the alarm on massive contamination

of cells used in some research laboratories around the world. In June 1974, while a researcher at the Cell Culture Laboratory at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, he published a report in Science magazine that said one type of human cell grown in laboratories for medical experimentation had secretly contaminated many cultures that were thought to be pure and unsullied. The discovery caused widespread consternation in scientific and medical circles because it cast doubt on the purity of cells under study in numerous laboratories. He was born in Havana and grew up in Germany before coming to the United States for his education. Nelson-Rees received a bachelor’s degree from Emory University in 1951 and a master’s degree in biology in 1952.

He received his doctorate from UC Berkeley and later studied at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Biology in Germany. He worked at UC Berkeley’s Naval Biological Laboratory from 1962 to 1981.

After his retirement from the scientific world, he concentrated on collecting and selling historical California art. He his survived by his partner of 50 years, James L. Coran, and his sister-in-law.

Mildred F. Patterson, M.P.H. ’65, died on April 14, 2008, in Durham, North Carolina, at age 95. Born near Savannah, Tennessee, she received a degree in English and a certificate in piano from Randolph-Macon Women’s College, and a degree in biological statistics from Columbia University. continued on page 52

Paola Timiras, Prominent Researcher on Aging Paola Silvestri Timiras, Ph.D., a leading researcher in the physiology of aging, died September 12, 2008, at Summit Medical Center in Oakland at age 85.

Born in Rome, she graduated summa cum laude from the University of Rome’s medical school in 1947. Subsequently, she and her husband, Nicholas Timiras, relocated to Montreal, where she enrolled in the University of Montreal to study experimental medicine and surgery.

She earned her Ph.D. in 1952 and was hired there as an assistant professor.

In 1954, she and her husband moved to the United States, where she took a position in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Utah Medical School. In 1955, she joined the UC Berkeley Physiology Department as an assistant physiologist and was appointed to the faculty in 1958. She became a full professor in 1967, chaired the Department of Physiology and Anatomy from 1978 until 1984, and continued to teach and conduct research after her retirement in 1994. In her mid 80s, she was still supervising students in the laboratory. She was actively involved with the UC Berkeley Resource Center on Aging, where she created the Paola Timiras Award for Research in Aging to support students. Throughout her career she studied how hormones influence the brain, in particular how sex hormones affect brain development. In recent years, Timiras’s group has been probing whether estrogen protects nerve cells against age-related changes that cause memory loss.

The recipient of numerous medals and awards, she was one of the founders (and the president from 1978 to 1981) of the International Society of Developmental Neuroscience; vice president and president of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology from 1974 to 1982; and president in 1970 of Iota Sigma Pi, the Association of Women Chemists. She was the author or editor of 15 books and more than 400 articles in Italian, French and English, notably Physiological Basis of Aging and Geriatrics, now in its fourth edition.

She is survived by her son and daughter. Her husband, Nicholas Timiras, died in 1996.

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In Memoriam

In Memoriam, continued Irving Tabershaw, Father of Occupational Medicine Irving R. Tabershaw, M.D., died March 8, 2008, in Tucson, Arizona.

He was 99. Tabershaw is considered by many as the father of modern occupational medicine.

Born in New York City, he received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. After two years of graduate study at the Sorbonne in Paris, he returned to New York, where he earned a medical degree from what was then the Long Island College of Medicine. He joined the U.S. Public Health Service during World War II and worked on the Manhattan Project, a secret multi-country effort to develop the atomic bomb.

He became interested in occupational medicine and industrial hygiene and embarked on a long and distinguished career in this field, then a fledgling area of medical study. Tabershaw was a professor of occupational medicine (later professor emeritus) at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Columbia University, and was past president of the American College of Preventive Medicine. He was a long-time editor of the Journal of Occupational Medicine. He established occupational medical consultancy practices in California, Maryland, and Arizona, and counted numerous Fortune 500 and international companies among his clients.

She worked as a health educator in several different counties in Tennessee prior to earning her master’s degree in public health at UC Berkeley. She worked as a health education adviser for the World Health Organization, serving four years in India and three years in Indonesia. After retiring from the WHO, she worked for six years as a health educator for the state of North Carolina. She is survived by a brother, a sister, and many nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Lucille M. Saloum, M.D., M.P.H. ’76, died August 29, 2008, at age 78. She received her medical degree from the University of Minnesota in 1954, her OB-GYN specialty at Stanford, and endocrinology expertise at the University of Washington.

Following several years of private practice in Duluth, Minnesota, she came to UC Berkeley, earning her M.P.H. in maternal and child health in 1976. She

became director of maternal and child health for Monterey County and then a medical consultant for the California Air Resources Board, where she was instrumental in establishing the standards and legislation governing California lead emissions.

She retired in 1990.

William F. Taylor, Ph.D. ’51, died December 30, 2008, at age 87. Born in Cincinnati, he received a degree in mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1943 before being sent to the Pacific as a meteorologist in the Air Force from 1943 to 1946. He returned to UC Berkeley and earned a Ph.D. in public health statistics in 1951. From 1951 to 1958, he was chief of the Department of Biometrics at Randolph AFB in Texas. From 1958 to 1967, he served on the faculty at UC Berkeley, ultimately holding the position of professor of biostatistics. He joined the Mayo

Clinic staff in 1967 as a professor and consultant in biostatistics, serving as head of the Section of Medical Research Statistics from 1967 to 1975, and founding the Cancer Center Statistics Unit.

Taylor chaired Mayo’s Cancer Patient Data System Committee until his retirement in 1986. He was a fellow of the American Public Health Association and the American Statistical Association. Taylor was married to Lois McIntosh for 36 years until her death in 1979. In 1981, he married Judith Keller. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, a son, two stepdaughters, a sister, seven grandchildren, and eight stepgrandchildren.

Ellen L. Wolfe, P.N.P., Dr.P.H. ’99, M.P.H. ’96, died on August 4, 2008, in San Francisco at age 55. Born in Denver, she attended nursing school at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, with a music scholarship as a violinist, receiving a bachelor of science degree in 1975. She received a master’s degree in nursing from UCSF in 1983, followed by a master’s and doctorate in public health from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She served as director of the Early Parenting Program, a pioneering child abuse prevention program at San Francisco General Hospital and was instrumental in creating the hospital’s Child Protection Center, serving as the program’s associate director for health care services from 1989 through 2005. At the time of her death, she was serving as director of Children’s Medical Services for the city and county of San Francisco.

She also held an assistant clinical professorship in the Department of Family Health Care Nursing at the UCSF School of Nursing. A tireless advocate for children’s access to health care services, she served on many regional and state committees that address the needs of underserved children and families. She is survived by her mother, two sisters, two brothers, and three nephews.

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Leona Shapiro, Nutritionist, Pioneered Studies on Children and Weight Leona Shapiro, Dr.P.H. ’74, a leading public health nutritionist who played major roles in early research on child obesity, died at her home on Feb. 24, 2009, at the age of 89.

Shapiro began her decades-long career at UC Berkeley in 1958 as a lecturer in public health nutrition at the School of Public Health. She also held a concurrent position as nutritionist for the city of Berkeley’s Department of Public Health.

She worked closely with Ruth Huenemann, a UC Berkeley professor emerita who was the founding chair of the campus’s public health nutrition program and who led the landmark Berkeley Longitudinal Nutrition Study, which followed children from age six months to 16 years. Hundreds of children born in Berkeley in 1969 and 1970 were enrolled in that study. Huenemann, who died in 2005, led the study during its first eight years. In 1977, Shapiro took the helm, securing funding for eight additional years of follow-up.

Teachers College, where she earned her master of science degree in public health nutrition in 1953.

She then settled in California, where she worked as a dietitian and clinic nutritionist with the Kaiser Foundation Hospital from 1953 to 1958. After Kaiser, Shapiro began working as a lecturer at UC Berkeley and as a nutritionist with the city of Berkeley’s Department of Health. As she maintained both jobs, Shapiro worked towards her doctorate degree in public health, which she received in 1974, from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

One of the major findings of the Berkeley study was determination of the critical periods of obesity development in children. Shapiro noted at the time that the research dispelled a common view that “fat babies become fat children,” and focused more attention on the importance of toddlers’ eating and activity patterns as a determinate of subsequent obesity.

Many of the lessons learned from this study were communicated in a 1985 report, Children and Weight: A Changing Perspective, authored by Shapiro and 10 other health experts who were members of the Ad Hoc Interdisciplinary Committee on Children and Weight. The report focused on positive parenting practices and revealed ways in which obsession with thinness was leading to an increase in disordered eating and health problems among adolescents.

In addition to her work on the Berkeley Longitudinal Nutrition Study, Shapiro collaborated with Lester Breslow, who established the Alameda County Human Population Laboratory, a pioneering study on the life behaviors connected to disease prevention.

Leona Shapiro and Alberto M. Ortega, M.P.H. ’07, at a 2007 event commemorating the School of Public Health’s history in Warren Hall.

Shapiro was born in New York City and grew up in Chicago. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nutrition and dietetics at the University of Illinois in 1940, followed by work at Philadelphia’s Jewish Hospital (now the Albert Einstein Medical Center), first as a dietetic intern and later as a dietitian.

In 1944, during World War II, Shapiro joined the U.S. Army as a commissioned officer. She served as a dietitian in the Medical Department until 1946.

After her service in the U.S. Army, Shapiro worked at the Chicago Department of Welfare for nearly five years before enrolling in Columbia University’s

In addition to her research, Shapiro was a popular and well-regarded teacher at UC Berkeley. She held positions as assistant professor, adjunct assistant professor and assistant research nutritionist before retiring in 1987.

Her professional honors include the Mary Rourke Memorial Award from the American Public Health Association’s Public Health Nutrition Section, the Mary Swartz Rose Fellowship from the American Dietetic Association, and the Dolores Nyhus Memorial Award, the highest honor given by the California Dietetic Association.

She is survived by her sister, Ruth Kadish, a niece, a nephew, a grandniece, and a grandnephew.

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