
Denise Herd
Title
Professor of Public Health
Department
School of Public Health
Faculty URL
Email
Phone
(510) 642-4842
Fax
(510) 643-8236
Research Expertise and Interest
public health, epidemiology, specialty area in multicultural health, behaviorial science
Research Description
Research interests include: images of alcohol and violence in rap music, activism in African American communities, health disparities, drinking and drug use patterns and programs, and social movements.
In the News
November 4, 2020
America on edge: Berkeley scholars’ early election thoughts
UC Berkeley scholars awoke Wednesday, Nov. 4 to signs of a deeply divided U.S. electorate, and no blue wave on the horizon. Despite a surge in early voting, ballots were still being counted in several battleground states. As of noon that day, the race between President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden remained too close to call.
October 5, 2020
Stark racial bias revealed in police killings of older, mentally ill, unarmed Black men
The widely reported deaths of Michael Brown and Philando Castile reflect a grim truth in this country: According to data collected by The Washington Post, around 1,000 people are shot and killed by the police in the U.S. each year, and Black men are more than twice as likely to be victims as white men.
June 25, 2020
Research on Racism and Public Health
Berkeley Public Health is committed to research that reveals how racism drives systemic inequities within the health sciences.
June 24, 2020
Berkeley Public Health Is on the Frontline of Research into How Racism Affects Public Health
Race- and ethnicity-based inequities in health outcomes for Americans are not news to public health specialists. Here at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, our faculty, researchers, and students have been working to illuminate the many ways in which racism affects who gets healthcare, how that healthcare is delivered, and possible solutions to entrenched problems like police brutality.
April 24, 2020
Straight talk: A conversation about racism, health inequities and COVID-19
The broad death disparities black communities face during the spread of COVID-19 reflects health and societal inequities that existed for communities of color in the United States, long before the disease became a pandemic.
April 23, 2020
Among the reasons COVID-19 is worse for black communities: Police violence
There are various reasons COVID-19 is killing black people at six times the rate of white people. But one largely unexamined contributor to the disparity is the trauma and stress caused by police violence in those communities, and the physical toll of that violence.