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I started my public health career at the Sacramento County Department of Health Services as a Health Education Assistant in their Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) Department. Intrigued by the endlessly fascinating work of the county epidemiologists, I decided to pursue an MPH at UC Berkeley in the MCAH concentration (formerly MCH).

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Alumna Kimsa Nguyen (MPH ‘22) recently presented a poster of her MCAH master’s capstone project, "Association Between Acculturation and Birth Control Usage Among Asian American Women in California," at the Asian Pacific American Medical Students Association (APAMSA) National Conference. This year the conference was hosted at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon.

A team of researchers, led by Julia Acker, a doctoral student at UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, sought to determine whether differences in racial and economic privilege at the neighborhood level may contribute to these disparities. 

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.