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September 12, 2019

MCAH students build skills through summer internships

Over the summer, MCAH students developed their leadership and research skills through internships with an organization of their choice. We've featured four student-written summaries of their 2019 internships on our website: Elle Ford (The Edible Schoolyard Project ), Sasha Tilles (Maternal and Child Health Bureau at the Commonwealth Healthcare Corporation, Northern Mariana Islands), Nina Oberman (California Department of Public Health STD Control Branch) and Gift Kiti (METABIOTA).

MCAH Professor Jaspal Sandhu: Human-Centered Design for Innovations in Domestic Violence Prevention

Jaspal Sandhu PhD presents a talk

On Tuesday, September 10, MCAH professor Jaspal Sandhu presented brown bag talk at the

July 17, 2019

Nurse-Family Partnership Launches New Digital Platform to Amplify Program's Impact

Proven public health program uses innovative technology to strengthen nurse connection and help moms achieve their goals

Reprinted from nursefamilypartnership.org

April 23, 2019

MCAH students attend 2019 Making Lifelong Connections meeting

Hannah Collins, Natasha Borgen and Sasha Tilles at the MLC conference.

MCAH students attend 2019 Making Lifelong Connections meeting in Madison, Wisconsin

April 9, 2019

MCAH Postdoc Jordyn Wallenborn leads pilot study on breast milk and the infant microbiome

Photo of Jordyn Tinka Wallenborn PhD

April 2, 2019

MCAH Alumna Carly Strouse works with Food Empowerment Project to improve Vallejo’s food landscape

Alumna Carly Strouse

Berkeley School of Public Health alumna Carly Strouse (MCAH MPH 2013, DrPH 2016), currently an Assistant Professor in the public health program at Touro University, recently analyzed data for the Food Empowerment Project on the lack of healthy food available in Vallejo, California. We interviewed her about her role in the project, as well as the project’s methods, goals and next steps.

March 7, 2019

Just Launched! A training module series on MCAH Life Course Perspective, Practice, & Leadership

Available Now! Our free online training module series: Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Life Course Perspective, Practice, and Leadership.

UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and its Center of Excellence in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health offer a self-directed, open-source training module series on the life course perspective and leadership.

February 26, 2019

Breastmilk popsicles: MCAH Postdoc Christiana von Hippel studies user innovation among new mothers

Christiana von Hippel

Dr. ChristianavonHippel, a postdoctoral fellow with the Wallace Center, studies User Innovation among diverse communities of women who, when professionally designed interventions are either inaccessible or insufficient, develop health-promoting interventions to meet their own needs.

Berkeley News

Prenatal exposure to chemicals in personal care products may speed puberty in girls

a close up photo of a cosmetic palette

By Kara Manke, republished with permission of news.berkeley.edu

Girls exposed to chemicals commonly found in toothpaste, makeup, soap and other personal care products before birth may hit puberty earlier, according to a new longitudinal study led by researchers at UC Berkeley.

November 29, 2018

Dr. Cheri Pies Receives 2018 MCHB Director’s Award

Headshot of Professor Cheri Pies