Berkeley Public Health

This week, President Biden signed a bill into law honoring the oldest celebration of the end of slavery, originating in Galveston, Texas in 1866. What can you do to honor Juneteenth? Take this day to study #BlackHistory, #BlackPoets, #BlackLeaders, and #BlackAchievement.

Berkeley Public Health professor Veronica Miller has co-authored a paper on how external control research can be effective in drug development for rare diseases. Read more: http://ow.ly/wnPe50FdRB4 @HIVForum @UPMC

(These resources) are available to all students, just like how they can access any UHS service, said UC Berkeley's Gender Equity Resource Center director Em Huang. Read how University Health Services is making mental health and counseling resources more accessible for queer and transgender Berkeley students. http://ow.ly/lcco50FdRaQ

June 18 webinar from Kaiser Family Foundation: Asian Immigrant Experiences with Racism, Immigration-related Fears, and the COVID-19 Pandemic. RSVP: http://ow.ly/uiST50Fd2mB

The standards board for California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health voted 5-1 today in favor of vaccinated people in California taking off their masks at work, but dissenting voter and Labor Occupational Health Program at UC Berkeley director Laura Stock has concerns that the new rules weakened workplace protections against the virus, doing away with social distancing and already installed partitions. http://ow.ly/ht3f50Fd0Bn

Maya Petersen, professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Berkeley Public Health, will report on her work on COVID-19 modeling for the city & county of San Francisco and the California Department of Public Health at a UCSF-hosted town hall on Friday. http://ow.ly/XpyM50FcZsG

Sunday 2/28 is the LAST DAY to donate to the Berkeley Public Health Alumni Association Diversity Fellowship! Funds support underrepresented minority students with a one-year, $2000 fellowship. Donate & increase diversity in public health today: http://ow.ly/Nnx450Dqyk4

"It’s become a place of solidarity during this particular school year because we talk about more than just COVID; we talk about how we can challenge the university to include our voices in the curriculum. #BlackHistoryMonth #HealthEquity #PublicHealth https://publichealth.berkeley.edu//black-advocates-for-eq/

Berkeley Public Health expert John Swartzberg's take on the vaccine rollout.

Webinar: Advancing #DigitalHealthEquity in California Mar 9, 2021 12:00 PM @Cal_IHEA hosts an expert panel to discuss their research focused on expanding digital health solutions for low-income Californians during the #COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. http://ow.ly/MujP50DIesf

BPH's Osagie K. Obasogie & @UCLA's Terrence Keel discuss the relationship between Christianity, #whitenationalism, & #whitesupremacy fueling discourse in the current political climate and, specifically, around the January 6th insurrection. http://ow.ly/x1D650DId1d. @ucbreligion

@UCSF researchers estimate that #COVID-19 related unemployment may account for over 30,000 additional deaths in the past year, impacting Black people, men, people over 45, and those with the least education at a higher rate. http://ow.ly/Xd0Z50DIcQa

Researchers from the Berkeley Public Health have been awarded a four-year grant of $1.7 million from the National Institutes of Health to use genomics-based methods to study mosquito movement patterns.

Originally shared by @ucberkeleylife the official ballot box located on the @ucberkeleyofficial campus. Registered Alameda County voters can drop off their ballots now through Tuesday, November 3, 8pm. (Don’t forget to sign the envelope!!) Location: between the north end of Sproul Hall and the west end Architects & Engineers Building.... (Or if you give directions like my roommate: stand facing Sather Gate with the @berkeleystudentunion behind you. Then go to the right.) #vote #UCVotes #BerkeleyPOV #GetOutTheVote #berkeley #UCBerkeley #Cal #Vote2020 #California

Berkeley Public Health alumna Michelle Sou and Bina Shrimali collaborate with faculty member Jaspal Sandhu from Pink Box Stories for a photo series highlighting resilience and community during COVID-19.

We recently sat down with California native and second year student in our online MPH program, Meagan Edwards, to get the inside scoop on what it’s like working full-time while balancing school and life responsibilities.

Berkeley Public Health Clinical Professor Emeritus John Swartzberg is one of the nation’s leading authorities on infectious diseases and vaccinologyand an eloquent commentator on all things pathogenic, including the novel coronavirus. California caught up with him recently to get his views on the likely directions of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the prospects for a vaccine, and the American response to date.

This Saturday, 10/31 at 9 AM!

This Saturday: Join us for our Fall Prospective Student Conference 2020. This is your chance to get an insider perspective and learn about our on-campus public health degrees, diverse career opportunities in the field, and the application process for the residential program. Click to register! https://gradapp.berkeley.edu/register/

Berkeley Public Health's John Swartzberg offers some advice for those thinking of traveling for Thanksgiving.

Thinking about pursuing your MPH? Our online program offers inspiration and flexibility! Here's what drives current student Meagan Edwards.

New research from Berkeley Public Health shows that short-term (within one week) prenatal exposure to air pollution is associated with an increased risk of stillbirth.

A 20 million DKK ($3.2 million) research gift from leading global healthcare company Novo Nordisk , headquartered in Denmark, will support an international joint initiative to advance work at the intersection of statistical methods, machine learning, and causal inference methods.

Berkeley Public Health is now moving forward with plans to rename and repurpose the former eugenics fund, with the goal of educating the Berkeley campus community, and the broader public, about eugenics’ brutal legacy. The fund will be renamed and repurposed for projects that foster conversations about eugenics and that benefit communities most harmed by this practice. Eugenics is not simply something that happened several decades ago, but is with us to this very day, says bioethics professor Osagie Obasogie. We would like to use these funds to educate our students, faculty and staff about the history of eugenics and to train people to be aware of how eugenic thinking persists in the ways that we continue to practice medicine and public health.

John Swartzberg, MD, clinical professor emeritus of public health, gives his prescription for how the next president should remedy the COVID crisis.