Panelists

Networking Circles

Stefano M Bertozzi

email: sbertozzi@berkeley.edu

Dr. Stefano M. Bertozzi is dean emeritus and professor of health policy and management at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Previously, he directed the HIV and tuberculosis programs at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Bertozzi worked at the Mexican National Institute of Public Health as director of its Center for Evaluation Research and Surveys. He was the last director of the WHO Global Programme on AIDS and has also held positions with UNAIDS, the World Bank and the government of the DRC.He is currently the interim director of the UC systemwide programs with Mexico (UC-MEXUS, the UC-Mexico Initiative and Casa de California).

Arthur "Art" Reingold

email: reingold@berkeley.edu

Arthur L. Reingold is the Division Head of Epidemiology and has dedicated his research to the prevention and control of infectious diseases both at the national level, as well as in numerous low income countries around the world. He has directed or co-directed the CDC-funded California Emerging Infections Program since its inception in 1994. His research interests include vaccine-preventable diseases; respiratory infections, including influenza; bacterial meningitis; disease surveillance; and outbreak detection and response.

Alejandro Schuler

email: Alejandro.schuler@berkeley.edu

Alejandro Schuler is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Division of Biostatistics at UC Berkeley. His expertise is in nonparametric statistics, causal inference, and machine learning. Dr. Schuler is also passionate about pedagogy and making good statistics accessible to everyone regardless of background or experience. Dr. Schuler is known for developing NGBoost, the selectively adaptive lasso, and prognostic adjustment, among other methods. Besides methods development, he collaborates with domain experts to translate their questions to mathematical formalisms and bring the right methods to bear on them.

Alumni Panelists

Candice Moses

Program Analyst
w/ California Department of Public Health

email: mosesc@berkeley.edu

Christopher Chau

Acting Project Director
w/SF Department of Public Health (NEOP)

email: christopher.chau@sfdph.org

Current Student Panelists

Camila De Pierola

email: camila_depierola@berkeley.edu

Camila is a rising second-year MPH student in the Health and Social Behavior concentration. She is from San Jose, California but was born in Peru and loves ceviche! Her research/topic interests include mental health support for immigrant and undocumented communities, Latino health disparities, and merging medicine and public health into practice. Currently, she is conducting qualitative research regarding perceptions of Alzheimer's disease among rural Latinos and applying to medical schools.

Makayla Leonard

email: makaylaleonard@berkeley.edu

Makayla is a 2nd year MPH student in Environmental Health Sciences. She received her BA in Environmental Studies from Spelman College in 2021. Makayla is an African American woman born and raised in Richmond, California. Her interests include air pollution, social and environmental determinants of health, environmental justice, and climate change. In her free time she likes to bake, listen to music and spend time with friends and family.

Adenike Omomukuyo

email: adenike_omomukuyo@berkeley.edu

I wasn't able to make the panel but please feel free to reach out!

I am a first-generation Nigerian-American and aspiring RD in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. My focus is on Public Health Nutrition, and Maternal and Child Health Nutrition. Originally born and raised in Atlanta, GA, I graduated from Cornell University with my B.S. in Human Biology, Health, and Society, and a minor in Human Development. I spent the past three years in Los Angeles, CA working in the public health nutrition field in health policy innovation, wellness and recovery, and clinical health research. My ongoing interests in such settings hope to enhance the nutrition care process of vulnerable communities by using a decolonial lens that centers food as enclaves for healing and constructs racially/culturally intersectional models within treatment interventions. Specific research areas include food and mental health, food as medicine, and social food behavior. Outside of grad life, I enjoy wine tasting, live music, being in the sun, and quality time with my loved ones!

Sabrina Adams

email: sabrina_adams@berkeley.edu

I am a second-year graduate student in the Health Policy and Management Program at UC Berkeley. I received my Bachelor of Science degree in Psychobiology from UCLA in 2018. Prior to graduate school, I worked as a practice manager and new patient intake coordinator at a private mental health clinic in Newport Beach, CA, where I helped patients navigate clinic resources and determine which clinician would be the best fit for their needs. My lived experience and work experience have equally contributed to my passion to address health inequities in the behavioral healthcare system, as well as the broader healthcare system. I have been very fortunate to intern this past summer at California’s Health and Human Services agency, where many of the state’s current policies and initiatives are centered around health equity. After earning my master’s degree in the Spring of 2023, I plan to continue to work for the state, but I am also thinking about applying for policy fellowships. Berkeley has opened so many doors for me, and I am very excited to be here and share more about my experience with you all today!

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