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Amani Allen - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Did you know that Latina women in the United States often face unique forms of discrimination and racism? Studies show that these experiences can significantly impact their mental and physical health. Latinas are not only navigating a complex social landscape but also shaping vibrant cultural narratives amidst these challenges. Join...
Social SciencesColette (Coco) Auerswald - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Youth and Allies Against Homelessness (YAAH) is a research team based in i4Y (Innovations for Youth), a Berkeley School of Public Health research center. YAAH is made up of youth community members with lived experience of homelessness, undergraduate and graduate students who have experienced homelessness and/or who have demonstrated...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesStefano M. Bertozzi - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Rapid Reviews\Infectious Diseases (RR\ID) [rrid.mitpress.mit.edu], is an initiative of the MIT Press and the University of California, Berkeley. It is an open access, rapid-review overlay journal for the accelerated curation and peer review of COVID-19 and emerging infections disease-related research. RR\ID takes a transdisciplinary...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceStefano M. Bertozzi - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Rapid Reviews\Infectious Diseases (RR\ID) [rrid.mitpress.mit.edu], is an initiative of the MIT Press and the University of California, Berkeley. It is an open access, rapid-review overlay journal for the accelerated curation and peer review of COVID-19 and emerging infections disease-related research. RR\ID takes a transdisciplinary...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceStefano M. Bertozzi - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Psychiatric disorders including PTSD; and alcohol use disorder and other addictions are responsible for a large portion of both the global burden and US burden of disease. Current therapies help a significant portion of people suffering from these disorders. Nevertheless, many patients do not respond adequately or cannot tolerate the...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceStefano M. Bertozzi - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The last few decades have seen growing acknowledgement and emphasis on the need to bridge gaps between research and practice. Implementation Science (IS) is the scientific study of methods to promote the systematic uptake of research findings and other evidence-based practices into routine practice. An evolving and interdisciplinary field...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceTimothy Brown - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will implement and disseminate the FUTUREPAIN validated questionnaire as a screening device to determine who will benefit from a series of online mind-body interventions (affective self-awareness, mindfulness, and neurobiological education) to treat chronic pain for five chronic pain conditions. This involves developing and testing the online...
Biological & Health SciencesTimothy Brown - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Large racial/ethnic disparities exist in medical care. Attenuation or removal of these disparities requires a rigorous understanding of the relevant underlying mechanisms. One such mechanism is high-quality physician-patient relationships. High-quality physician-patient relationships are associated with improved health outcomes and lower costs. However, such relationships appear...
Biological & Health SciencesTimothy Brown - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will conduct the first systematic review and meta-analysis to identify the most effective and cost-effective intervention components for universal and targeted (indicated and selected) suicide prevention among college students in a global context. Special attention will be placed on disparities in suicide prevention across sociodemographic subgroups...
Biological & Health SciencesTimothy Brown - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will use simulation methods to determine the cost-effectiveness of mind-body interventions using data from randomized controlled trials, national survey data, and other resources. The goal is to publish a peer-reviewed article to help establish the value of these interventions in healthcare. This has not been...
Biological & Health SciencesLia Fernald - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Around one third of young children in Latin America co-reside with a grandparent. Unlike other regions, intergenerational cohabitation has remained common even with increasing economic prosperity. Grandparents may provide additional care for children with time or financial resources, yet they may also be a burden on parents if the...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesLia Fernald - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
Over 250 million children under five years in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have been estimated to be at risk of poor development, accounting for 43% of young children living in those countries (Lu et al., 2016). There are many reasons that children are at risk for poor development...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesLia Fernald - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
In Kenya, over 70% of the population is at risk of malaria, with the areas around Lake Victoria and on the coast presenting the highest risk, and children under age 5 and pregnant women being most vulnerable to infection. Over half of malaria patients access treatment via pharmacies, which are...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesLia Fernald - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
Background: Every seven minutes a woman is a victim of domestic violence in Brazil. Research on intimate partner violence shows that victimization is not an isolated incident. Because of the repetition of abuse, it’s possible that some women seek assistance from multiple sectors over the course of their victimization. Other...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesBrent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and state offices of the attorney general are responsible to promote and protect competition; however, their resources to scrutinize proposed mergers and acquisitions are limited. The purpose of this project is to do background research for utilizing...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesBrent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Healthcare providers and insurers have consolidated in the past decade, leading to higher prices without a commensurate increase in quality. The study will extend the evidence base on the effects of healthcare consolidation, including understanding the impacts of hospital-to-hospital affiliations and the impacts of private equity firms acquiring...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesBrent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In the United States, government spending on programs (excluding health programs) targeting low-income populations total about $450 billion per year, whereas personal savings in the U.S. totals about $1 trillion per year (but reached $2 to $3 trillion in 2020 and 2021 because of Covid/recession fears, which are...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesBrent Fulton - Associate Director, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
AI technology and AI tools will change the healthcare landscape. The purpose of this project is two-fold. First, the project aims to understand AI technology's impact on the broader economy coupled with a focus on healthcare, including diagnostics, treatments, drug development and workflow processes. Second, the project...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesEva Harris - Professor, Public Health; Div of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
With 3.6 billion people living at risk of infection, and approximately 400 million infections and 96 million cases per year, dengue is the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral illness. The disease spectrum includes dengue fever, characterized by debilitating symptoms such as high fever and myalgia; and dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue...
Biological & Health SciencesEva Harris - Professor, Public Health; Div of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The four dengue virus serotypes (DENV1-4) cause the most important mosquito-borne viral disease of humans, with 100 million cases annually. The mechanisms by which the human immune response to DENV provides either protection against or enhancement of a subsequent infection with a different DENV serotype are not fully understood...
Biological & Health SciencesEva Harris - Professor, Public Health; Div of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Previous studies in the Harris laboratory have demonstrated the ability of the secreted flaviviral protein, nonstructural protein 1 (NS1), to induce both hyperpermeability in vitro and vascular leak in vivo, both mediated by the disruption of endothelial glycocalyx components and intercellular junction degradation. Further work in the lab aims at...
Biological & Health SciencesEva Harris - Professor, Public Health; Div of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
Dengue (DENV) and Zika (ZIKV) flaviruses are mosquito-borne viruses that are major medical and public health problems worldwide. DENV causes the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral disease of humans, and severe cases manifesting vascular leakage can be fatal. Nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) is a flaviviral protein that participates in...
Biological & Health SciencesCarly Hyland - Professor, School of Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This pilot study will describe previously uncharacterized worker exposures to work-related stress and constituents of diesel exhaust from off-road diesel equipment through a mixed methods approach. Farmworkers are uniquely vulnerable to job insecurity, low wages, few benefits, long hours, and/or lack of managerial oversight, and experience many...
Biological & Health Sciences Environmental IssuesSusan Ivey - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
We are looking for two sophomore or junior students who would be interested in working with Dr. Susan Ivey and Dr. Winston Tseng (School of Public Health) to analyze county-level data on overdoses and deaths from overdose, risk factors, and harm reduction policies (fentanyl testing, xylazine testing, Narcan) to...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesSusan Ivey - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is a consortium of UCB, CSUEB/CSULB, and community colleges around the state to shape a training program in PH informatics which is use of data and visualization of data for public health surveillance, disease tracking, program evaluation, and mapping of data/GIS methods. We are creating a...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesSusan Ivey - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Students will be trained to take blood pressure readings and to use motivational interviewing strategies to help individuals in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties to make change in diet, physical activity, smoking, or other lifestyle behaviors. Coaches will work 1:1 with participants to give telephone and person to person support...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesLayla Kwong - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In rural, low-resource settings globally, such as subsistence farming communities in Nepal, diarrheal diseases are common, driven by exposure to fecal pathogens (bacteria, viruses, and other harmful organisms found in human and animal waste) in their household. In subsistence farming households where households frequently own livestock and poultry, handling...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesLayla Kwong - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
In large parts of Sub Saharan Africa, health facilities (e.g. hospitals and clinics) lack appropriate energy infrastructure. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where much of the continent's unelectrified are exposed to both climate and conflict pressures, the near-total absence of a central grid requires the health sector...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesLayla Kwong - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Dive into the world of health communication by contributing to our project focused on co-creating and evaluating the effectiveness of videos to enhance vaccine literacy and confidence. In the context of misinformation surrounding vaccines, particularly in Malay-speaking communities of Southeast Asia, we aim to develop culturally and linguistically...
Environmental Issues Biological & Health SciencesFenyong Liu - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 12 or more hours Location: On Campus
The long-term goals of our research are (1) to study the functions of genes of human herpes simplex virus (HSV) (the causative agent of genital herpes and cold sores) and cytomegalovirus (CMV) (the leading cause of congenital abnormalities in newborns and blindness and death in AIDS patients) in regulation...
Biological & Health SciencesEmily Ozer - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Youth should be meaningfully included and engaged in conversations about policies that directly affect them. Youth-Led Participatory Action Research (YPAR) is a social justice-focused approach for promoting social change and positive youth development in which youth conduct systematic research and actions to improve their schools and communities (Ozer...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesEmily Ozer - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project is conducting systematic review of the literature to describe the state of the youth participatory action research (YPAR) literature and synthesizing findings of the youth outcomes reported in these studies. YPAR is an approach that engages young people as researchers to study and address social problems within their...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology Biological & Health SciencesNdola Prata - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This research project is focused on improving the lives of Black Birthing people in California. The postpartum period, or care after birth is one of the most important periods during the birthing cycle, yet there are limited resources during that time. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesJustin Remais - Professor, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
ALL OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE GROUP ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN-PERSON The Remais Lab is currently seeking a URAP apprentice(s) to collaborate on multiple domestic and global research projects on infectious disease and environmental change. Environmental, ecological and social dynamics are central to the epidemiology of infectious diseases caused...
Biological & Health SciencesJustin Remais - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The Remais Lab is currently seeking a URAP apprentice(s) interested in gaining primary research experience to collaborate on a recently funded NIH project investigating the effects of expanding agriculture on infectious disease transmission. The projects seeks to investigate the effects of agrochemicals on parasite transmission using a combination of...
Biological & Health SciencesFilipa Rijo-Ferreira - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
Earth rotation was an evolutionary pressure for organisms to evolve circadian rhythms in order to be able to anticipate the rhythmic day/night cycles. These circadian clocks regulate physiological properties such as sleep, immune response and metabolism. Our lab studies circadian clocks in parasites. This project focus on performing bioinformatics...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceFilipa Rijo-Ferreira - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs
Parasitic diseases cause major health burden worldwide, with over 1 million deaths each year. Despite having the genome of many parasites sequenced, almost half of their genes are of unknown function. There are still major gaps in our understanding of host-parasite interactions and disease transmission by vectors. Our research...
Biological & Health Sciences Digital Humanities and Data ScienceHector Rodriguez - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in the United States. Current guidelines recommend that women participate in breast cancer screenings until the age of 74. While false-positive results remain a risk, regular screenings may enable early detection of malignancies. Decisions about whether to undergo screening...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesHector Rodriguez - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Quality of care disparities between patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) and patients proficient in English have been well documented. Language barriers between patients and providers can lead to medical errors, poor chronic condition management, and undue difficulty accessing care. LEP status is highly correlated with other risk factors for...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesMarieka Schotland - Executive Director, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Innovations for Youth (i4Y) is a cross-disciplinary research-action center that catalyzes on innovative interventions, practices and policies to improve equity and well-being for youth locally and worldwide. Our current portfolio includes work on marginalized youth, youth voice, youth participatory action research, and student mental health and wellbeing...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesJason Su - Associate Researcher, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The purpose of this proposed research is to investigate the impact of air pollution exposure on metabolic outcomes, specifically focusing on Type 2 diabetes patients in California. The study aims to address the existing gaps in the literature by conducting large population-based studies at the state level with high...
Biological & Health SciencesJason Su - Associate Researcher, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
In this project, the University of California, Berkeley and ResMed will use the ResMed target population in Southern California SoCal to study the impacts of (1) criteria air pollutant emissions from locomotive and port craft operations and (2) air toxics from point, area and mobile sources on daily rescue medication...
Biological & Health SciencesJason Su - Associate Researcher, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
The goal of this study is to build upon previous work by examining statewide air pollution exposure and life expectancy disparities across generations and within communities. The specific objectives of the research are as follows: 1. Conduct a systematic literature review, using peer-reviewed journal papers to identify effects of...
Biological & Health SciencesJason Su - Associate Researcher, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Develop daily air pollution surfaces of criteria pollutants (NO2, PM2.5 and O3) and air toxics ((benzene, 1,3-butadiene, chromium, lead, nickel and zinc) for years 1990-2019 across California through advanced machine learning D/S/A algorithm. Identify dose-response relationships between preterm birth (PTB)/low birth weight (LBW) and short...
Biological & Health SciencesHannah R. Thompson - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Today’s youth suffer from unprecedented levels of physical inactivity and poor physical fitness, which contribute to myriad health complications, including increased risk for cardiovascular disease. School physical education (PE) is one of the most valuable tools for increasing physical activity and improving youth fitness and shows potential for reducing related...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesHannah R. Thompson - Professor, Public Health
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the UC Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI) are seeking 1-2 students to support a USDA-funded research project studying how K-6 public schools transitioning to scratch cooking and using reusable serviceware can impact students’ dietary intake and environmental sustainability. This is a great...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesWinston Tseng - Research Scientist, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
PROJECT 1.1. The Central Valley towns of Allensworth is partnering with Gadgil Lab and Health Research for Action at UC Berkeley on a research project funded by the Environmental Protection Agency and National Alliance for Water Innovation. This project is about assessing community perspectives on water safety, community education, and...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesWinston Tseng - Research Scientist, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The goal of the project is to conduct an evaluation of the Zoosiab program, a community-based prevention and early intervention program that aims to prevent and/or reduce further mental health problems and social isolation among Hmong elders by strengthening sense of community and social engagement, improving both psychological...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesWinston Tseng - Research Scientist, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
The purpose of the project is to monitor and increase the visibility of Pacific Islander (PI) health disparities and align local health department efforts in the counties of San Francisco, Alameda, and San Mateo to be more inclusive and effective in serving PI communities. The project activities include conducting a...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesWinston Tseng - Research Scientist, Public Health
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
This project involves numerous interviews. Its overall purpose is planning further projects to advance the mainstreaming within the public health field, both in schools of public health and among frontline public health practitioners, of recognition that spiritual and religious (S/R) factors are important, and that high-quality skilled attention...
Biological & Health Sciences Social Sciences