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Current MCAH graduate student at UC Berkeley, Gabriela Gonzalez (expected MPH '23), is the newest author for MCH Leads—the student-led national MCH trainee blog.

Current MCAH graduate student, Julie Grassian (expected MSW/MPH '24) was invited by UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) to participate as a disability advocate for UCLA DGSOM’s Base Camp. Base Camp is an introductory session for incoming medical students to address assumptions and preconceptions related to disability and LGBTQ+ health, and to create a foundation for understanding the intersectionality of these two groups.

The Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Internship Program supported by the National MCH Workforce Development Center provides an opportunity for teams of graduate MCH students from a Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health and MCH students from either an MCH Leadershi

For Mental Health Awareness Month 2022, David Orellana Delgado (YEDI/LEAP Fellow 2021-22) wrote about his experience as an undergraduate research assistant with the Fuerte Program, a primary and secondary school-based prevention program created to support the health and well-being of recently-immigrated Latinx newcomer students in the San Francisco Unified School District.

Sarah Kardos (she/her)

Program: 11-Month MPH (Expected ’22)

Hometown: Berkeley, CA

A $137,565 grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Professor Cassondra Marshall to advance the study of type 2 diabetes among Black and Latina women. 

We asked four recent MCAH alumni to briefly summarize their post-MPH career since graduation in a sentence or two.  Here are their responses. 

Mo Xu 

Degree program:  2-year MPH ('22 expected)

Pronouns: she, her, hers

Hometown: Davis, California

Why did you choose to study MCAH at UC Berkeley? 

How Youth Participatory Research Creates a New Generation of Environmental Changemakers

from Berkeley Public Health News