Disruptive and Transformative: Health Policy Advocacy From Data to Analysis to Policy to Change, through Advocacy There are exceptions, but little is done to systematically link scholarship to policy.  Brownell and Roberto, The Lancet, February 18, 2015 Anthony B. Iton, MD, JD, MPH Harry M. Snyder, JD Our Brown Bag presentation will discuss the class, […]

"Rethinking sustainable surgical interventions in LMICs" Speaker: Scott Lee MD, MPH, FACS Event link: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98571041713 Many of the WHO dogmas and policies are not backed with scientific data when it comes to surgical interventions. So often, policies are based on small case series or the surgical preferences of a few doctors. In Myanmar, this was […]

https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98571041713 Jennifer Ahern PhD, MPH Lauren Goldstein PhD We will have an open conversation about research at BPH - what factors facilitate research productivity? What is exciting about research efforts at BPH? What are barriers to research productivity? Come with questions and topics for discussion.

https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98571041713 Dilys Walker MD Join our brown bag entitled: Transforming the Culture of Care Improves Preterm Survival, to learn how we improved survival of preterm infants by 34% through the implementation of an intrapartum quality-of-care package. We will be engaging in a discussion of our study outcomes and the four components of our life-saving package […]

https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98571041713 Speakers: Winston Tseng, Associate Researcher Berkeley Public Health Angel Yang, Program Analyst Hmong Cultural Center of Butte County Between the 1960s and 1970s, many Hmong residing in Laos were secretly recruited by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to fight against communism during the Secret War in Laos. As a result, many Hmong who were […]

https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98571041713 Speaker: Art Reingold  The presentation will provide an update concerning both the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines in California and the US and what is known about their safety and effectiveness. The presentation will also provide an update concerning COVID-19 and the epidemiologic features of the disease.

https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/98571041713 Speaker: Hector Rodriguez, PhD Come to learn about how physician practices in the U.S. are developing capabilities, such as health information technology and chronic care management programs, and how these capabilities are associated with quality and costs of care. These practice capabilities can enable organizational resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. We will discuss telehealth […]

Speaker: John Marshall, PhD Malaria, dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases continue to pose a major global public health burden throughout much of the world. Currently-available tools, such as insecticides and antimalarial drugs, are not expected to be sufficient to eliminate these diseases from highly-endemic areas, and consequently, there is interest in novel control strategies, including […]

Speakers: Julianna Deardorff and Michael Bakal Low-income families and particularly farmworker families living in agricultural regions, like Salinas CA, have been disproportionally affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 responses, including shelter in place strategies, school closures and quarantine for ill individuals are likely to result in augmented negative effects on health and mental health within […]

Speakers: Corinne Riddell and Jennifer Ahern Background: Families in the US are facing increased unemployment, school closures, movement restrictions, and social isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all of which are risk factors for child abuse. Allegations of child abuse to Child Protective Services (CPS) have starkly declined due to reduced contact between children and […]