Students

Navigating Professional Growth as a First-Generation Scholar in STEM

November 8, 2023
Nora Lopez

In my final year at UC Berkeley, I embarked on a personal mission to enhance my professional development. This mission led me to attend three conferences this Fall semester: the Stanford Regen Med Conference, UC Davis Pre-Health Conference, and the SACNAS NDiSTEM Conference.

At the Stanford Regen Med Conference, I engaged in networking opportunities with professionals and peers in STEM fields, fostering an understanding of diverse career paths and engaging in a resume review by Stanford researchers that increased my readiness to apply to research opportunities....

A Semester in Botswana: Undergraduate MCAH Research and Internship Experience Abroad

November 9, 2023
Raksha Rajeshmohan

This past fall semester, I have been partaking in a community public health study abroad program in Gaborone, Botswana. Through the program, I visited local clinics and health posts once a week to observe the functioning of health systems in Botswana, and I enrolled in coursework at the University of Botswana studying public health topics in the context of Botswana and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). I also had the opportunity to travel to other...

2023 Cheri Pies Awards Received By Recent MPH MCAH Graduates

June 6, 2023

Cheri A. Pies is a Clinical Professor Emerita at the School of Public Health, at the University of California, Berkeley. Cheri A. Pies also served as the principal investigator of the Best Babies Zone Initiative, a place-based multi-sector approach to reducing infant mortality through community-driven transformation. As one of the pioneers in understanding social determinants of health, she has worked to address the ways in which social and economic disparities and inequities...

Aliza Adler ('23) Presents at AMCHP Conference

May 25, 2023

See Aliza's poster here.

I was selected for a virtual poster presentation for the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs 2023 Annual Conference. My poster was titled, “Barriers to Reproductive Health Care Prior to and During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” and stemmed from research I conducted during my summer practicum with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health. This study was motivated...

Julie Grassian Participates In Qualitative Investigation of COVID-19 Vaccination Hesitancy Among Neurodivergent Communities

June 14, 2023

In 2021, Julie served as a stakeholder engager for a qualitative investigation on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in neurodivergent communities, with the goal of increasing public health efforts towards increasing vaccine confidence among this population. The manuscript recently got published, which can be accessed here. In this role, she and a team of other stakeholder engagers interviewed medical professionals, those in the neurodivergent community, and their caregivers to better understand the...