School of Public Health

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. 

Rachel Morello-Frosch, a professor in UC Berkeley’s Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and School of Public Health was elected to the National Academy of Medicine, or NAM, according to an announcement released by the organization on Monday. 

A recent study conducted by UC Berkeley researchers in collaboration with the California Department of Public Health found a connection between droughts and increases in coccidioidomycosis or Valley fever cases.

UC Berkeley McNair scholars and directors struggled to find what went wrong after a denied federal grant application dissolved campus’s 30-year-old research scholarship that prepared underrepresented undergraduates for higher education. 

The ASUC held its second Senate meeting of the year Aug. 31 to outline their priorities for the year and its progress thus far.

UC Berkeley updated its mask policy to require that masks be worn by those who have not received a flu vaccination.