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Mission
Mission
The Dream Office focuses on recruitment and retention of historically excluded populations and serves approximately 1,469 graduate students each academic year. 60.8% of our students are underrepresented minorities (URM); 40.7% of our students are First Generation (FGEN). The Dream Office encourages prospective students and supports admitted students from all communities and especially those who have experienced historical inequities to pursue graduate degrees in public health at UC Berkeley.
Dream services include graduate recruitment and diversity services (including Summer Seminar); direction of the Prospective Student Ambassadors (PSAs) program; advising and mentorship; and direction of recruitment and retention support for the Blue Shield Fellowship program.
Programming
Programming
Thank you to Yuri, Mar, Nike, Sofia, Hillary, Kevin, Khanh, and Edina for ALL of your expertise and work that makes Dream so special! Each of you helped keep things moving forward with all of the resource transitions over the year.
Dream symplified the office's name from an acronym to a mononym inspiring an updated logo created by Dream graphic designer, Edina.
The Dream graduate outreach assistant, Sofia, recruited and supervised 20 volunteer prospective student ambassadors. As a team they: designed and implemented the annual Fall Conference series in November 2023: student panel, faculty panel, and an introduction to Dream services workshop; were responsible for providing office hours to prospective students interested in BPH; attended local recruitment events; facilitated BPH campus visits for local high school and college students.
Summer Seminar: annual week-long event held in August 2023 that prepared and supported 40 historically excluded students in acclimating to BPH. Partners for this event were the BPH Biostatistics department, RISE, BPH Librarian, recent alumni, the Blue Shield of California employees, and more.
Fall 2023 and spring 2024 academic tutoring services (Hillary, Kevin, and Khanh) were offered specific to Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and R-Coding.
Dream supported a breadth of activities and direction of the Blue Shield of California Fellowship program in partnership with RISE. You may review the 2022-2023 annual report (link is external). The 2023-2024 report will be shared once it is available.
Dream co-hosted BPH's First Generation Day Celebration (link is external), with Judy Smithson, former Interim Assistant Dean for Students.
Spring Visit Day support by Dream staff included hosting an ice breaker, Dream information sessions, and a virtual expeirence with Che Abram.
The Dream graduate retention assistant, Adenike, helped elevate the food pantry and community closet, grocery gift cards, coffee and tea bar, snacks, RRR week food services, and social activities. This includes partnering with Basic Needs and the new housing team within the Graduate Division to best resource students.
Dream Campus Partnerships: Basic Needs Center, Berkeley International Office, CAPS, Graduate Division, Public Health Librarian, and Undocumented Students Program.
Blue Shield of California Fellows: Cohort 3
Blue Shield of California Fellows: Cohort 3
Launched in 2022, in partnership between Blue Shield of California (BSC) and Berkeley Public Health (BPH) is uniquely poised to respond to these workforce development challenges through the Blue Shield of California Fellowship Program. This fellowship program aims to train the next generation of diverse changemakers in public health by increasing the pipeline of diverse students studying public health, providing BSC early access to diverse, top-level talent, applying analytics expertise to real business problems, and developing training opportunities in data analysis methods. The objective is to recruit and train 80-100 BSC Fellows from underserved communities over five years.
We would like to thank our academic programs, student services team, admissions team, RISE, and our Blue Shield of California for their efforts and support to recruit and select our third cohort (link is external) of Blue Shield of California Fellows!
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Dream Student Staff 2024-2025
Dream Student Staff 2024-2025
Dream Staff
Dream Staff
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