Lucinda Brannon Bazile M.P.H. '94
(President)

Lucinda Brannon Bazile is director, policy and special projects, with LifeLong Medical Care, a federally qualified health center serving underserved and uninsured communities. She has more than 20 years' experience in operational and financial management, health policy and planning, and community organizing. She is vice chair for Contra Costa County Managed Care Commission and an active member with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.  She serves as a mentor with Youthbridge and Health Career Connection. Bazile is an alumna of Blue Shield's Clinic Leadership Institute.

Rob Tufel M.P.H. '90, M.S.W.
(Vice President)

Rob Tufel has more than 20 years' experience in the health field, with a focus on AIDS as well as brain tumors. He is director of adult services at Jewish Family & Children's Services of the East Bay. Previously, he was executive director of the Ben & Catherine Ivy Foundation. Prior to that, he worked at the National Brain Tumor Foundation, first as director of patient services in their newly formed Patient Services Department and later as executive director. He founded the HOPE Project—a community-based case management program for HIV-affected low-income families with children.

Mariah Lafleur M.P.H. '09
(Secretary-Treasurer)

Mariah Lafleur is a program associate at Samuels & Associates, a public health research and evaluation firm in Oakland that improves health by informing environmental and policy change. She focuses on improving healthy eating and physical activity environments, especially in low income, underrepresented, and Spanish-speaking communities. She has worked on nutrition projects at Children's Hospital of Oakland and La Clínica de la Raza. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, sheimplemented projects to alleviate malnutrition and improve food security and sanitation in rural communities.

Beth Roemer M.P.H. '76
(Past President)

Beth Roemer is senior director of the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, whose mission is to help shape health care policy and practive with evidence and experience from the nation's largest private integrated health care delivery and financing organization. She has 25 years' experience in medical center administration, quality improvement, health plan and hospital accreditation and regulatory compliance, labor management partnership, new product development, strategic planning, policy development, and executive consulting.

Mary Adèr M.P.P., M.P.H. '98

Mary Adèr is a health policy and finance professional with more than a decade of experience. As a senior adviser with the Kaiser Permanente Government Relations team, she provides strategic and policy guidance on state and federal health laws, policies, and regulations, and formulates public policy positions to ensure consistency nationally. Previously she served 10 years as an analyst for and adviser to California Legislative leadership. She has recently served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for a foster teen, as a member of the Advisory Board of the New Leaders Council, and as a volunteer with the California Black Youth Leadership Project.

Myrna Cozen M.P.H. '89

Myrna Cozen is an epidemiologist and health services researcher. She is an experienced manager of complex, multi-site projects in clinical epidemiology, health services research, and community health program planning and evaluation. She has directed or coordinated several major state and local public health campaigns, including regional and statewide pandemic, bioterrorism, and public health emergency preparedness efforts, and the development of an electronic morbidity reporting system for notifiable diseases. Cozen is currently associate director of the Hepatitis C Resource Center at the San Francisco VAMC.

Rosa Vivian Fernandez M.P.H. '91

Rosa Vivian Fernandez has more than 20 years' experience in health care field, including financial management, fundraising, supervision, policy development, program planning, development, and evaluation. She is a consultant to the Health Care Resource Administration (HRSA) as an Office of Performance Review consultant team member for federally funded clinics. She is a member of various grant objective review committees for federal grant review panels including HRSA, OPA, and SAMHSA. Fernandez is a National Health Service Corp Ambassador, and a member of the American College of Health Care Executives and the American Public Health Association. She serves on the board of her local chapter of Habitat for Humanity.

Michael Fischman M.D., M.P.H. '82

Michael Fischman is a consulting physician in occupational and environmental medicine and toxicology. He has worked for more than 24 years with large private and public organizations to protect employees from workplace and environmental health hazards. He serves as a clinical professor of medicine at UCSF, where he teaches fellows in training in occupational and environmental medicine. Fischman serves as chair of the Advisory Committee for the Northern California Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of California (Berkeley, San Francisco, and Davis), housed at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

Deniz Kursunoglu M.P.H. '11

Deniz Kursunoglu worked for many years as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard and as a senior consultant at Ernst and Young. In 2007 she decided to give more to communities and went back to school to receive her M.P.H. Deniz worked as a research assistant at the Dr. Robert C. & Veronica Atkins Center for Weight and Health and participated on the School Lunch Initiative project. She worked at the City of Berkeley Department of Health Services Public Health Division and helped built a prototype for Community Indicators Tool for Impacts on Health. Currently she is pursuing a new career in public health.

Baljeet Sangha M.P.H. '10

Baljeet S. Sangha is the assistant administrator for operations, director of materials management, and director of volunteer services at San Francisco General Hospital, the safety net hospital for San Francisco, the only Level 1 Trauma Center serving San Francisco and northern San Mateo Counties, and the only provider of 24/7 Psychiatric Emergency Services in San Francisco. Baljeet is a board member of the California Association of Healthcare Leaders, chair of its Higher Education Network Committee, and cochair of its Affiliate Outreach Committee.

Erika Schwilk M.D., M.P.H. '09

Erika Schwilk will complete fellowship training in occupational and environmental health at UC San Francisco in 2010. She completed her internal medicine residency at UC Davis Medical Center and worked as a UC Davis hospitalist. She has a background in environmental biology and now looks forward to working in the field of environmental and public health.

John J. Troidl Ph.D. '01, M.B.A.

John Troidl is a management consultant for community-based health care programs such as community health centers, "Look Alike" clinics, and related partners in the provision of care to underserved populations. His areas of focus include board training, strategic planning, recruitment and retention, management mentoring, and grantwriting. He is a commissioner with the California Health Workforce Policy Commission and was appointed to the Health Council in Yolo County.

Troidl is a lecturer at UC Davis teaching an online course, "Introduction to Public Health." His research interests are organization and economics of primary care services. He has provided workshops on accounting, finance, and budgeting through the School of Public Health's Center for Public Health Practice for 10 years.

R. Berna Atik Watson M.D., M.P.H. '99

R. Berna Atik-Watson is a research scientist at the California Department of Public Health, Biomonitoring Program. She received her M.D. from Istanbul Medical School in Turkey. After receiving her M.P.H., she worked as a postdoctoral fellow and a research scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute. She is interested in women's health, refugee/immigrant health, and human rights issues.

Evaon Wong-Kim Ph.D., M.S.W., M.P.H. '90

Evaon Wong-Kim is chair and professor of the Social Work Department at California State University, East Bay. She is also a licensed clinical social worker in California. She has been an advocate for minority and low-income breast cancer survivors, especially the Asian immigrant and Pacific Islander population. She was president of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, SF Bay Area Affiliate; the first chair of the Asian Pacific Islander National Advisory Council; and has been a member of the Intercultural Cancer Council since 1995. She has conducted research on topics relating to cancer survivorship and palliative care provided to Asian immigrants, quality of life and health disparities issues affecting the Asian American immigrant and Pacific Islander population.