Clinical Professor Emerita
Public Health
Cheri A. Pies was one of the pioneers in understanding social determinants of health and worked to address the ways in which social and economic disparities and inequities influence birth outcomes and generational health across the life course.
Cheri A. Pies was a Clinical Professor Emerita at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Cheri Pies also served as the principal investigator of the Best Babies Zone Initiative, a place-based multi-sector approach to reducing infant mortality through community-driven transformation. As one of the pioneers in understanding social determinants of health, she worked to address the ways in which social and economic disparities and inequities influence birth outcomes and generational health across the life course.
- DrPH – Health Education, UC Berkeley, 1993
- MPH – Maternal and Child Health, UC Berkeley, 1985
- MSW – Boston University, 1976
- BA – Social Science, UC Berkeley, 1971
- Reducing and eliminating health disparities and inequities in birth outcomes through the implementation of the Life Course Perspective
- Use of incentives in conjunction with the delivery of reproductive health services
- Use of photovoice in defining community health issues for program evaluation, implementation, and needs assessment
- Lesbian and gay health concerns
- Use of focus group research in public health practice