The Best of Berkeley Public Health 2024

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Changemaking & Community Impact

Launch of the school’s new social impact team & Social Impact Tuesdays group study course
The third year of Changemaker microcourses
Inaugural cohort of eight Impact Fellows
Fourth cohort of Health Innovation Accelerator
Eight student-led teams won Social Impact Innovation Grants
The school co-hosted the first Healthcare Conference Taipei

Dr. Michael C. Lu appointed to second term as dean of UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Dr. Jodi Halpern named do-director, Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public and received International Lifetime Achievement Award in Empathy
Dr. Jyothi Marbin honored with Academic Pediatric Association Community-Engaged Health Care Delivery Award
Dr. Veronica Miller, American Association for the Study of Liver Disease Distinguished Advocacy Service Award
Dr. Ziad Obermeyer testified at Senate Panel on Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare
Dr. Richard Scheffler elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Dr. Martyn Smith, Herbert E. Stokinger Award from American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
Dr. Evan vanDommelen-Gonzalez named UC Berkeley Outstanding Faculty Advisor
Dr. Jingshen Wang named Hellman Fellow
8 new faculty members hired with expertise in overdose prevention, racial disparities in school discipline, maternal and child health, and more

MPH student Rutendo Ajayi and DrPH candidate Renee Clarke launch Black Lactation Matters
Kathy Kwan, MPH ’93, Berkeley Founders Award, 2024
Martha Ryan, MPH ‘89, Peter E. Haas Public Service Award, 2024

$40 million in new research grant funding
600+ papers published in The Lancet, JAMA, Nature, Science, and more
Mahasin S. Mujahid received $1.5 million for student-led health equity interventions
Eva Harris co-leads consortium that received 5-year, $14 million-per year to develop new vaccines & antibody-based therapies