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Kevin Mack memorial fund established
A memorial fund to honor the late Kevin Mack, a doctor in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program, has been established to benefit his husband and their children.
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School of Public Health launches first online degree program
UC Berkeley's School of Public Health has launched the campus's first online degree program in an effort to address the nation's shortage of trained public health professionals. Students enrolled in...
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Tyler Prize honors Kirk Smith’s work on air pollution and health
Kirk Smith, UC Berkeley professor of global environmental health, has been named one of two winners of the prestigious 2012 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. The award recognizes Smith's work...
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Berkeley awards gala to celebrate public-health heroes
The School of Public Health will honor health and human rights champion Mary Robinson and AIDS researcher and advocate Marcus Conant at an awards gala Wednesday.
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UC Berkeley leads $4 million program to train slum health researchers
The Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $4 million to UC Berkeley to lead a program to train and educate researchers, educators and professionals who can...
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UC Berkeley’s first online degree program wraps up inaugural semester,...
This week, students from San Francisco to Alaska will have completed the inaugural semester of the On-Campus/Online Masters in Public Health Degree Program, the first ever online degree offered by UC...
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Brown taps Berkeley experts to boost Californians’ health
Professors, alumni and others associated with the UC Berkeley School of Public Health are well-represented on Jerry Brown’s “Let’s Get Healthy California” Task Force, whose members were announced this...
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Prof takes on a global health crisis, one toothbrush at a time
Ever since Coke and chips replaced local foods in village shops, decayed teeth are a common sight among children in the developing world. But by way of simple oral-health education, Karen...
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Wildfire smoke linked to lower birth weights
Research by UC Berkeley scientists has found that women who were pregnant during Southern California's big 2003 wildfire season and were exposed to smoke bore babies with slightly lower birth weights.
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Shortell to step down as public health dean
Stephen M. Shortell, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, has announced that he will step down as dean effective July 1, 2013. He will remain at the school as a professor of health policy...
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Life in the margins
The effects of social stigma can be physically harmful, even deadly. Those shunned by society — due to homelessness, drug use, non-conforming gender identity or other attributes — tend to have poorer...
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Public Health neuroscientist a winner of prestigious prize for dementia research
For his research on beta-amyloid plaques in the brain, Dr. William J. Jagust of UC Berkeley's School of Public Health has been named a winner of the 2013 Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick’s,...
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Stefano Bertozzi, AIDS expert, named new public health dean
Dr. Stefano Bertozzi, senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a noted expert in the fields of AIDS research and global health policy, has been named the new dean of UC Berkeley’s...
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Berkeley Food Institute aims to help transform the world’s food system
Marshaling the research, educational and political power of five colleges and dozens of faculty, UC Berkeley has launched the Berkeley Food Institute, whose aim is nothing less than the transformation...
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Deardorff studies social adversity, early puberty and risk-taking by teenagers
How do social adversity and early puberty influence risk-taking behavior in teens? Julianna Deardorff, assistant professor in the Maternal and Child Health program, at UC Berkeley's School of Public...
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CHAMACOS: How pesticides harm young minds
Children born to mothers who work in California’s pesticide-treated fields show signs of developmental problems, according the pathbreaking CHAMACOS study, led by UC Berkeley professor Dr. Brenda...
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