Ralph ​Catalano, PhD, MRP

Professor of the Graduate School, Public Health
Ralph Catalano is a Professor of the Graduate School where he studies the implications of population stressors for gestation.

Biography

Ralph Catalano is a Professor of the Graduate School at UC Berkeley. Catalano studies the implications of population stressors for gestation. His best known work focuses on the economy as stressor and fetal death as an outcome. The work shows that environmental stressors affect which gestations yield a live birth and, therefore, the health of birth cohorts that sum into the populations for which public health professionals take responsibility.

Research Interests

  • The implications of selection in utero for population health
  • The economy as stressor

Education

  • PhD – Social Science, Regional Planning
    Syracuse University, 1972
  • MRP – Regional Planning
    Syracuse University, 1970
  • BA – Political Science
    Boston College, 1968

Publications