School of Public Health

Denise Herd, a campus Graduate School of Public Health professor of behavioral sciences, has been awarded $100,000 to study COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Californian Black and Latine communities.

CredibleMind president and CEO Deryk Van Brunt created his company to encourage self-intervention and proactive early prevention in well-being issues. Now, a new partnership with the National Association of County and City Health Officials, or NACCHO, will put Van Brunt’s organization on the national map

UC Berkeley associate professor of health policy and management Dr. Ziad Obermeyer was named to the 2023 TIME100 AI list, the media company’s annual award for top professionals in the artificial intelligence sector.

A recent UC Berkeley School of Public Health study found that midwives are more likely than obstetricians and gynecologists, or OB-GYNs, to screen patients for postpartum depression, or PPD, despite having similar guidelines for addressing the illness. 

Widely known for paving the way for lesbian public health and childcare, Cheri Pies lived unapologetically. Pies passed away July 4 at the age of 73 due to cancer, but left an undeniable legacy behind her.

The paper, which was published Jan. 4, is a reflection on the anti-racist framework that was introduced to the School of Public Health’s foundations of maternal and child health practice policy course in fall 2020.

Berkeley’s new Rural Health Innovation program, or RHI, will begin in 2024, offering fully funded scholarships for an online Masters in Public Health, or MPH, according to Cathy Garza, executive director of Online On-Campus MPH, or OOMPH.

Public health officials say that transmission of COVID-19, RSV and influenza will increase during the holiday season; however, this may not correlate to a significant increase in hospitalizations for severe disease, according to public health experts.

Lee Riley, UC Berkeley School of Public Health professor and chair of the infectious disease and vaccinology division, died at age 73 on Oct. 19. 

Researchers from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health have received a grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, for HIV research and prevention in Zimbabwe.