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Alcohol
Research Group (ARG)
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The Alcohol Research Group has been engaged in epidemiological
studies of alcohol and health services research since
1959. ARG is the home of one of fifteen National Alcohol
Research Centers funded by the National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). While the
majority of ARG grants are funded by NIAAA, other
grants have been awarded from the National Institute
on Drug Abuse, the National Institute for Mental Health,
the Centers for Disease Control, the Center for Substance
Abuse Treatment, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Current research focuses on alcohol and drug use and
related problems, health services research, policy
analysis, and the study of community responses and
interventions. Groups studied include the general
population and specific populations, such as individuals
in treatment, welfare recipients, pregnant women,
emergency room patients, and homeless persons.
Arsenic Health Effects
Research Program
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The Arsenic Research Program is directed by Allan
H. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., professor of epidemiology,
School of Public Health, and is based at the University
of California, Berkeley. The program's arsenic research
activities began more than 12 years ago with a risk
assessment focusing mainly on cancer. This work revealed
the cancer risks from inorganic arsenic in drinking
water to be potentially very high. As a result, the
Arsenic Health Effects Research Program was initiated
to study the health risks from exposure to inorganic
arsenic. Currently it involves international research
projects in Argentina, Chile, India, and Bangladesh,
as well as U.S.-based investigations in California
and Nevada.
Bay Area International
Group (BIG)
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The Bay Area International Group focuses on the quantitative
aspects of family planning and reproductive health.
Its overall goal is to expand family planning and
improve reproductive health in developing countries
by using limited resources as effectively as possible.
The group draws on the cross-disciplinary skills of
a number of academic institutions in the San Francisco
Bay Area, and includes economists, public health professionals,
epidemiologists, as well as international experts
in business, reproductive health and AIDS prevention.
Berkeley Population Center (BPC)
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The Berkeley Population Center was founded in 2005 as an interdisciplinary center for population research on the Berkeley campus and beyond. BPC continues a 50-year old tradition of population research at Berkeley, and also fosters collaboration with the University of California campuses at San Francisco and Davis. In addition to the School of Public Health, center faculty come from a wide range of campus departments such as Demography, Sociology, and Economics. The Center's mission is to promote research and collaboration on all aspects of population studies.
Berkeley Systematic
Reviews Group (BSRG)
The Berkeley Systematic Reviews Group was formed to
summarize epidemiologic research through systematic
reviews and meta-analyses in order to inform evidence-based
clinical and public health practices; to conduct methodological
research in the field of systematic reviews and meta-analyses;
and to conduct training programs on systematic reviews
in the U.S. and other countries.
Bixby Program in
Population, Family Planning & Maternal Health
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The Bixby program in Population, Family Planning &
Maternal Health is a collection of students, researchers,
and staff dedicated to freeing individual, family
and community demand for effective family planning
and maternal health solutions as well as drawing links
to the environment often overlooked in other programs.
California Program on Access to Care (CPAC)
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The California Program on Access to Care brings the resources of the University of California to address significant health care policy issues affecting California's low-income populations. Through independent research and policy analysis conducted by the academic community both inside and outside the University, CPAC expands and enhances dialogue among government officials, healthcare advocates, and academic researchers.
California STD/HIV
Prevention Training Center
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The California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center
is an integral part of a national network of training
centers that offer dynamic continuing education courses.
Clinical, behavioral interventions, partner services,
and program support courses are designed to enhance
the STD/HIV knowledge and skills of medical, health,
and community professionals.
Center
for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development
(CEIHD)
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The Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health
and Development was established in 2000. The center's
mission is to promote and disseminate the use of entrepreneurial
methods to improve the health of families in developing
countries. CEIHD's purpose is to create financially
sustainable, modular systems that employ the skills
and knowledge of local entrepreneurs as partners and
eventual owners of this process.
Center for Environmental
Public Health Tracking (CEPHT)
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The Center for Environmental Public Health Tracking
is one of three funded by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention as part of a new program to
develop a national approach to improved tracking of
environmental factors that contribute to disease and
the diseases that result. The center's primary mission
is to support the development of the national approach
and particularly to support the efforts of states.
The seven state partners for the University of California
Center are the states of California, Oregon, New Mexico,
Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Washington. The center
also has proposed specific projects to contribute
to this overall effort.
Center for Family
& Community Health (CFCH)
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The Center for Family and Community Health focuses
its efforts on health promotion and disease prevention
through programs directed at families, neighborhoods,
and communities. It is one of 28 Health Promotion
and Disease Prevention Research Centers sponsored
by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The center's mission is to improve the health of families
and communities in the San Francisco Bay Area by establishing
linkages between the University and government and
community-based organizations, providing analytic
and quantitative expertise to local communities and
health agencies, and training students in prevention
research and public health practice.
Center for Health
and Public Policy Studies (CHPPS)
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The Center for Health and Public Policy Studies conducts
research and policy analysis on current issues in
health policy and politics that affect California
and the nation. The center provides data and organizes
convenings that support public policies to develop
an affordable, high-quality health care system and
to promote health and prevent disease. In this work,
the center collaborates with government, industry,
academic, and public service institutions.
Center for the Health
Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas (CHAMACOS)
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CHAMACOS is a community-university partnership investigating
the environment and children's health in the Salinas
Valley, Monterey County, California. CHAMACOS is examining
routes of pesticide exposure to children and their
potential health effects and developing sustainable
strategies to reduce pesticide exposure among children.
CHAMACOS is also engaged in studying which factors
in the environment might cause or exacerbate asthma
in children. Overall, the goal of CHAMACOS is understand
the relationship of the environment to children's
health and develop interventions that reduce the incidence
of environmentally related childhood disease.
Center for Health
Communication (CHC)
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The Center for Health Communication conducts research
and provides training and consultation to help organizations
and government agencies improve the quality of their
information for the public. The center oversees the
California Health Communication Project which provides
technical assistance to help HMOs and other organizations
address health literacy barriers. The center is also
exploring the potential of eHealth communication to
increase access to information and care.
Center for Health
Management Research (CHMR)
The Center for Health Management Research—a National
Science Foundation-sponsored Industry/University Cooperative
Research Center—is a unique collaborative venture
that strives to effectively address the need for a
well-crafted and efficient health care system in the
United States. Underlying the formation of the center
is the belief that solving the nation's health care
crisis starts with a solid foundation of research
that combines the expertise of health care professionals
and academic faculty. The center's 15 member universities
and 11 industry sponsors work together to set the
center's research agenda, addressing key issues of
interest and importance to both parties. CHMR is housed
on the Berkeley campus within the Center for Health
Research.
Center for Health
Research (CHR)
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A member of UC Berkeley's Institute of Business and
Economic Research, the Center for Health Research
serves as a campuswide forum for bringing together
social scientists and other investigators to address
the challenging issues facing America's health sector.
The Center's 60-plus members—faculty researchers
on the Berkeley and San Francisco campuses of the
University of California—represent many of the
social sciences: economics, demography, political
science, public health, business, psychology, social
welfare, and sociology.
Center for Infectious
Disease Preparedness (CIDP)
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The mission of the Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness
is to educate and train frontline public health staff
to detect, investigate, and respond to infectious
disease threats through collaborative learning, continuous
training, evaluation, and research.
Center
for Medicine, Humanities, and Law (CMHL)
For more information, contact Guy Micco, M.D. guym@berkeley.edu.
Center for Occupational
& Environmental Health (COEH)
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The Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
and its sister centers at Los Angeles and Irvine serve
government, industry, schools, health professionals,
and the general public through programs and partnerships
designed to deepen understanding of occupational and
environmental hazards and to prevent disease, fatalities,
and injuries.
Chlamydia Genome
Project (CGP)
The Chlamydia Genomes Project includes the annotated
DNA sequence for the chromosomes of Chlamydia trachomatis,
serovar D (D/UW-3/Cx), trachoma biovar; serovar L2
(L2/434/Bu), LGV biovar; and, C. pneumoniae, CWL029.
The sequencing was a collaborative effort between
researchers at the University of California, Berkeley,
and Stanford University. The Chlamydia Genomes Project
had two specific aims: (1) determination of the DNA
sequence of the Chlamydia trachomatis serovar D, serovar
L2, and C. pneumoniae chromosomes; and (2) to establish
a DNA sequence database for the genomes.
Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Center for Weight
and Health
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The center provides leadership
for the development of interdisciplinary, science-based
solutions to body weight, health, and hunger-related
problems.
Fresno Asthmatic
Children's Environmental Study (FACES)
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The Fresno Asthmatic Children's Environment Study,
which began in 2000, is a large epidemiological study
of the effects of air pollution on children with asthma.
About 300 asthmatic children who reside in the Fresno
area of the Central Valley of California were enrolled
in the study. The overall goal of this study is to
determine the effects of different components of particulate
matter, in combination with other ambient air pollutants,
on the natural history of asthma in young children.
Global Center for Health Economics and Policy Research (GCHEPR)
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The GCHEPR is currently focused on international research in health insurance, financing, and health care labor markets; health and social capital; mental health care; and the global market for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder medications. The GCHEPR trains young scholars and clinicians from Central Europe in finance and service delivery methods through its Mental Health and Policy Research Training Program funded by the Fogarty International Center/NIH.
Health Initiative of the Americas (HIA)
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The Health Initiative of the Americas, formerly known as the California-Mexico Health Initiative, is a collaborative effort involving government, academia, the private sector and community-based organizations of both countries. Its objective is to coordinate and optimize the availability of health resources for Mexican immigrants and their families through bilateral training, research, and health promotion activities.
Health Professions
Partnership Initiative (HPPI)
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The SF Bay Area Health Professions Partnership Initiative-Public
Health is an exciting joint venture bringing together
several educational institutions and K-12 schools
in the Bay Area. The HPPI Project seeks to improve
students' academic skills, increase their knowledge
of health careers (particularly public health), help
sustain their motivation, and build their self-confidence.
Health Research for
Action (HRA)
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Health Research for Action (formerly the Center for
Community Wellness) at UC Berkeley is one of the School
of Public Health's initiatives to translate research
findings into successful resources and programs for
the public. HRA works with communities, foundations,
and government agencies to reduce health disparities
and create more hopeful, empowered communities. HRA's
research shows that people are healthier when they
have a strong sense of control over their lives.
Institute for Global
Health—UCSF (IGH)
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The Institute for Global Health is committed to improving
health and increasing access to effective and affordable
health services in all countries. The goals of IGH
are to improve people's lives by decreasing premature
death and disability; build capacity of local communities
to improve health and health care access; and motivate
the public and private sectors to drive consensus
and action for the improvement of health globally.
International
Training And Research In Emerging Infectious Diseases
(ITREID)
Funded by the Fogarty Center of the National Institutes
of Health (NIH), the International Training &
Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases Program has
been working for the last five years to develop a
training and research infrastructure in Latin America.
Based on the concept of global sharing of scientific
knowledge, the program seeks to facilitate timely
field epidemiologic and laboratory investigations
in response to infectious disease problems that are
emerging and reemerging in the region. The program's
primary goal is to provide both didactic and field
based training to physicians, public health professionals,
microbiologists, and epidemiologists in Latin America,
who are dedicated to respond to the threat of such
diseases. For more information, contact Lee Riley,
M.D. lwriley@berkeley.edu.
Labor Occupational
Health Program (LOHP)
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Labor Occupational Health Program is a community outreach
program of the Center for Occupational and Environmental
Health at the School of Public Health, UC Berkeley.
The LOHP staff is dedicated to improving health and
safety in the workplace. The program serves labor,
management, community organizations, health professionals,
government, schools, and the general public.
Petris Center on
Health Care Markets & Consumer Welfare (Petris
Center)
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The center helps to guide public policy by creating
the data and conducting the research needed to understand
today's complex health care market. It provides up-to-date
information on changes in the health care system that
may impact the health care marketplace and alter its
capacity to provide high-quality care at competitive
prices. It assesses issues related to the welfare
of California consumers, especially affordability,
availability and access to health care with a particular
focus on low and moderate-income consumers. It concerns
itself with the role of consumer choice and participation
of front-line workers in the health care delivery
system. It conducts studies and provides objective
information to lawmakers, regulators, consumer-advocates,
health care providers, and the public at large.
Resource Center on
Aging (RCA)
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In October 1985, as part of its new Academic Geriatric
Resource Program, the University of California, Berkeley,
officially opened the Resource Center on Aging. The
center is the coordinating mechanism for activities
in aging on the UC Berkeley campus, and also serves
as a clearinghouse for information on aging activities
both on and off campus. It maintains affiliations
with organizations in aging which provide resources
for field research and current information on issues
in aging in the community.
Robert Wood Johnson
Health & Society Scholars Program
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A national program of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
the Health & Society Scholars Program is designed
to build the field of population health, which takes
a broad approach to understanding why some groups
of people are healthy and others are not. The goal
of this interdisciplinary program is to improve health
by training scholars to investigate vigorously the
connections among biological, behavioral, environmental,
economic, and social determinants of health; and develop,
evaluate, and disseminate knowledge and interventions
based upon integration of these determinants.
Robert Wood Johnson
Scholars in Health Policy Research Program
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Established in 1992 to foster the development of creative
thinkers in health policy research as a collaborative
effort involving faculty and resources of two University
of California campuses, Berkeley and San Francisco,
the program offers scholars a unique opportunity for
advanced study and research on significant health
policy issues. Each year, the program enables up to
four highly qualified individuals to undertake a two-year
fellowship.
Superfund Basic Research
Program (SBRP)
The Superfund Basic Research Program is directed by
Martyn T. Smith, Ph.D., professor of toxicology, School
of Public Health, at the University of California,
Berkeley. This multidisciplinary, multi-campus research
program is dedicated to gaining an understanding of
the relationship between hazardous substances in the
environment and their impact on human health. Funded
by the National Institute of Environmental Health
Science, the program addresses research questions
critical to reducing the human burden of disease from
environmental exposures.
Traffic Safety Center
(TSC)
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The mission of the UC Berkeley Traffic Safety Center
is to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries through
multidisciplinary collaboration in education, research,
and outreach. The center's aim is to strengthen the
capability of state, county, and local governments,
academic institutions, and local community organizations
to enhance traffic safety through research, curriculum
and material development, outreach, and training for
professionals and students.
UC Berkeley Wellness
Letter
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One of the oldest and most successful of all university-sponsored
health newsletters, the University of California,
Berkeley Wellness Letter takes the expertise of
the School of Public Health and other researchers
at UC Berkeley, as well as other top scientists from
around the world, and translates their leading-edge
research into practical advice for daily living. The UC Berkeley Wellness Letter is governed by
an editorial board composed of School of Public Health
faculty.
Wellness Guide
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The Wellness Guide and the Spanish version
of the guide, La Guía del Bienestar,
are comprehensive health resources that have reached
millions of individuals and families with important
up-to-date information and resources. This guide features
easy-to-read text, an appealing design, and photos
of diverse people solving real-life problems. It includes
more than 100 well-researched toll-free phone numbers,
web sites, and links to local services through California
phone books. It covers a broad range of user-selected
topics on everyday life issues, staying well, and
parenting.
