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School of Public Health

mental health, epidemiology, social epidemiology, population health, neighborhood characteristics and health, methodological issues and novel methodological applications in social, traumatic events, substance use, behavioral health, birth outcomes and maternal health

Sylvia Guendelman

Sylvia Guendelman

School of Public Health

public health, maternal & child health, health and social behavior, health policy and management, specialty area in multicultural health

Kurt C. Organista

Kurt C. Organista

School of Social Welfare

social welfare, race/ethnicity, HIV prevention, social behavior

Ronald Dahl

School of Public Health

adolescence, brain development, behavioral and emotional health, pubertal maturation, affective neuroscience, social neuroscience

Emily Ozer

School of Public Health

participatory research, community-engaged research/scholarship, mental health, public health, health and social behavior, clinical and community psychology, adolescent development, school-based health promotion

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Tina Sacks

School of Social Welfare

racial disparities in health, social disparities of health, race and class and gender, poverty and inequality

Steven P. Segal

School of Social Welfare

psychiatry, methodology, social welfare, mental health and social policy

Adrian Aguilera standing in an office

Adrian Aguilera

Computational Precision Health Program

School of Social Welfare

digital health, depression interventions, cognitive behavioral therapy, health equity, machine learning, implementation science

Eileen Gambrill

Eileen D. Gambrill

School of Social Welfare

social welfare, professional ethics and education, social learning theory, behavioral methods

Dr. Chris Schell sets a wildlife camera trap in the East Bay, CA. His lab uses these devices and other techniques (e.g., GPS collars, roadkill collections) to monitor how wildlife populations adapt to life in cities.

Christopher Schell

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

behavioral ecology, urban ecology, One Health, social-ecological dynamics, environmental justice

School of Social Welfare

mental health, social welfare, race/ethnicity, organization of health services

Denise Herd

School of Public Health

public health, epidemiology, specialty area in multicultural health, behaviorial science, social movements, race and ethnicity, medical anthropology, American popular culture

HEARTs Research Group

Amani Nuru-Jeter

School of Public Health

health inequities, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic position, stress and health, place and health, social determinants of health, cardiometabolic risk, birth outcomes

Annaliese Beery

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Neuroscience

hormones and behavior, brain and behavior, social behavior, environment, experience/exposures, neuroscience

Haas School of Business

nonverbal behavior, prejudice and discrimination, power and status, social perception, automaticity, social behavior and market outcomes

Emmeline Chuang

Emmeline Chuang

School of Social Welfare

inter-organizational relationships, frontline health and human service workers, implementation science, coordination of health and social services

Mahasin Mujahid

Mahasin Mujahid

School of Public Health

Multi-level determinants of racial/ethnic health disparities, neighborhood environments and cardiovascular health, breast cancer treatment and survivorship Methods in social epidemiology, population health

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Dept of Psychology

culture, conflict, behavior, love, psychology, emotion, social interaction, individual differences in emotion, negotiation, embarrassment, desire, juvenile delinquency, laughter, anger, social perception, negotiating morality

Benjamin Handel

Benjamin Handel

Dept of Economics

health economics, industrial organization, behavioral economics

Dept of Anthropology

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

immigration and migration, medical anthropology with foci on social theory and ethnography, social studies of medicine and science, social difference related to race, social difference related to socioeconomic status, social difference related to citizenship, social difference related to gender, social difference related to sexuality, the naturalization and normalization of social hierarchies and health disparities, social suffering and symbolic violence, urban and rural Latin America and North America, population health with focus on global health, population health with focus on health disparities, population health with focus on social determinants of health

Dr. Sabrina Boyce providing a lecture

School of Public Health

gender-based violence, sexual violence prevention, reproductive health, social norms, gender equity, social epidemiology, child and adolescent health, community-engaged research/scholarship

Timothy T. Brown

School of Public Health

Health insurance benefit design, chronic pain, public health services and systems, mental health economics, dental economics, social capital, econometrics

School of Public Health

ethnography and qualitative methods, stress and chronic disease, social determinants of health and health disparities, health systems research and healthcare access, social difference and power and inequality, criminal justice as a determinant of health, urban transportation, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships

School of Social Welfare

social welfare, comparative welfare state analysis, child welfare, evaluation research, family policy, social security

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbiology, microbial development, molecular genetics, biochemistry, microbial social behaviors, bacterial communities / microbiomes, collective behaviors