Quin Hussey is the Assistant Dean for Students at Berkeley Public Health. She joined the school in February of this year. Quin is a public health professional with 17+ years of experience working on cutting-edge public health programs and research studies. She holds an MPH from San Jose State University and a BA in Psychology from San Francisco State University. Most recently, Quin served as the Program Director for the UCSF California Preterm Birth Initiative, a 10-year $50 million dollar research initiative with the goal of reducing disparities in preterm birth. Prior to that, she served as the Assistant Director for our own Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health program, supporting all aspects of their student services, and as national program manager for the Best Babies Zone. Quin and her partner, Julia, live in Oakland and are recent empty nesters. They have a daughter, Anya, who is in her first year at Sarah Lawrence College. Quin’s background includes cooking professionally for over 30 years. She loves to cook and does it daily.

Enrique Ramirez is a recent graduate of the UC Berkeley Public Health program. He is originally from Bakersfield, CA and received his B.A. Psychology from California Polytechnic State University, Pomona in 2013.

He previously worked with the CDPH Black Infant Health program as a Community Outreach Liaison for Kern County; his primary objectives were to enhance community support, empower Black women, and coordinate care for pregnant women. He later turned to communicable disease work, specifically working as an HIV counselor as well as connecting syphilitic patients into care.

He is interested in translating and applying public health academic studies, teaching, and community relationship building into social justice efforts. His career interests include health equity concerning Black and people of color as well as the LGBT community through activation within higher education. His personal interests include gardening, hiking, listening to podcasts and karaoke.

Jessie is a proud transgender Chicanx woman from Salinas, CA, and is a third-year student in the 3-year MPH/MSW concurrent degree program. She is in the Health and Social Behavior program and Advancing Well-being across the Adult Lifespan program in the MPH and MSW programs, respectively. She graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018, where she earned a B.S. in Anthropology with minors in French, Food Studies, and Global Health. She then worked as the Trans* Empower Workforce Development Program Manager at a Transgender Health Program at St. John’s Well Child and Family Center in South Central Los Angeles. In that role, she assisted transgender patients with job readiness skills, job placement, legal gender, and name change paperwork, and trained employers in Los Angeles on transgender competency to best support transgender workers. Additionally, she completed her public health internship doing a UCSF Youth and Participatory Action Research project with the youth of color from Richmond, California. Her research interests include how institutions, systems, and organizations affect the mental health of transgender people of color. She is also interested in Latinx holistic health. In her free time, she enjoys watching professional wrestling, running, dancing, cooking, and hanging out with her dog!

Abena is a second-year MPH student in the 2-year Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health program from Berlin, NJ, a small town right outside of Philadelphia. She graduated from Wellesley College in 2018, majoring in Psychology and minoring in Health & Society. Shortly following graduation, Abena moved to Oakland, California to work as a Program Assistant at Prevention Institute where she helped coordinate prevention initiatives focused on collaborative and community-based approaches to addressing intimate partner violence & mental health and wellbeing across the country. Most recently she worked with Contra Costa Health Service’s Office of the Director assisting with the county’s COVID-19 response and health equity plan. She is passionate about addressing the historical injustices and determinants of health that impact the maternal and child health population, particularly how racism affects Black birthing people and babies in the United States. In her spare time, Abena enjoys going for walks and runs outdoors, organizing gatherings with friends, and spending time with family.

Juan González, MPH/MCP(c)

Erika Neal, MPH(c)

Daryl Mangosing, DrPH(c)

Xing Gao, PhD(c)