Zarqa Amad PhD ’92
Zarqa Amad writes, “I currently work for the California Department of Public Health, Laboratory Field Services as the section chief of personnel licensing. I oversee the licensure of 38 different...
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A. Eugene Washington MD, MSc, MPH ’75
In January 2015, Dr. A. Eugene Washington, a noted clinical investigator, health-policy scholar and executive at the UCLA, was named Duke University’s chancellor for health affairs and president and...
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Bruce Kieler DrPH ’94, MPH ’88, MBA, MA
Bruce Kieler and his colleagues Rudolph Henry MS and Rebecca Shawver MPA were recognized by the Indian Science Monitor, a nonprofit organization that promotes scientific discoveries and knowledge...
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An Afghan woman builds toward a sea change
Although she only lived there the first two months of her life, for Muska Fazilat BA ’15, returning to Afghanistan was like returning home. It was also the beginning of a profound transformation, a...
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For a Louisiana health official, learning never ends
If you were to picture your idea of a typical Berkeley MPH student, someone like John Thomas “J.T.” Lane would probably not be the first—second, third, or fourth—person to come to mind. As assistant...
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Sutter Health’s next CEO lives what she learned
In her large, extended, physician-filled family, the assumption early on was that Sarah Krevans MBA, MPH ’84, would go to medical school. (Krevans’s father is Julius Krevans MD, chancellor emeritus of...
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Dean’s Message: Connections for Health, Locally and Globally
A year ago we initiated a collaborative strategic planning process to define a vision for our School of Public Health. We built on our many existing strengths while identifying ways our education...
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Looking for the roots of risk
Julianna Deardorff is leading a project to better understand how stress affects the biological and behavioral development of Latino youth in Salinas. On a bright day in the first week of August,...
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Team climate change
In many ways, the study of climate change is a search for impacts—a welter of them. Rises in air temperature spur wildlife migrations and the extreme heat spells trouble for medically fragile city...
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Strength and solutions in numbers
SEARCH channels the power of group science and community engagement to guide a global effort to end AIDS Now approaching its 35th year, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has already claimed 39 million lives. An...
View ArticleThomas W. Elwood DrPH ’73, MPH ’69
Although retired as an executive director of an organization in Washington, DC that represents 118 colleges and universities with programs in the health sciences, Thomas W. Elwood continues in...
View ArticleBruce Poulter MPH ’87
The Boulder, Colorado MP-12 Phase 2 Clinical Trial of the safety and efficacy of MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for people with chronic treatment resistant PTSD will be completed by the December 2015....
View ArticleDiane Lewis MPH ’87
After fighting cancer since December, Diane Lewis, UC Berkeley School of Public Health alumna and UC Santa Cruz professor of anthropology emerita, died August 13 in her home surrounded by her daughter...
View ArticleBruce Kieler DrPH ’94, MPH ’88, MBA, MA
Bruce Kieler presented an update on his on-going case study of nuclear power technology training programs in southeast Texas at the High Impact Technology Exchange Conference (HI-TEC), held in...
View ArticleMaria G. Boosalis MPH ’75
Maria G. Boosalis was named lead of the new program in applied clinical nutrition at the Northwestern Health Sciences University. The new program offers students options ranging from introductory...
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Tim Ho MPH ’14
In September 2015, Tim Ho was appointed Regional Assistant Medical Director of Quality and Clinical Analysis at the Southern California Permanente Medical Group. His appointment starts December 2015.
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Janice W. Yager PhD ‘82, MPH ’72
Dr. Yager is enjoying travel and retirement with her family in Oakland’s upper Rockridge neighborhood after an accomplished research and management career. She held academic appointments conducting...
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Patricia Poliskey Evans MPH ’66
Patricia Poliskey Evans, 74, of Parkersburg, W.Va., passed away Nov. 7, 2015, at Marietta Memorial Hospital, Marietta, Ohio, after a long battle with cancer. A stem cell transplant at Ohio State...
View ArticleEric Berg MPH ’96
Eric Berg has been appointed deputy chief of health in the Division of Occupational Safety and Health at the California Department of Industrial Relations, where he has been principal safety engineer...
View ArticlePatricia Spratlen Etem MPH ’85
Patricia Spratlen Etem has been reappointed to the Tobacco Education and Research Oversight Committee, where she has served since 2010. She has been a consultant at Civic Communications Consulting...
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