Professor, Bixby Chair
Malcolm Potts is a Cambridge trained obstetrician and reproductive scientist. He is the first holder of the Fred H. Bixby endowed chair in Population and Family Planning in the School of Public Health, Berkeley, and has developed the Bixby Center with a team of young experts. He is co-director of the Berkeley International [...]
Amita Sreenivas graduated with an MPH from UC Berkeley in maternal-child/international health. She was a pre-medical student at The George Washington University but decided to pursue a career in public health instead following experiences of volunteering in the US and internationally. Among those experiences include conducting survey work in nine urban slums of Hyderabad (India), [...]
PH 181 Graduate Student Instructor
After serving 5 years in the US Army, Andy graduated from UC Berkeley with a major in Slavic Languages and Literatures and a minor in Serbo-Croatian. In 2006 he finished his MPH in Epi/Biostats at UC Berkeley; the title of his thesis was “Predictors of HIV Among Men Who Have [...]
Caitlin Gerdts is a doctoral student in the UC Berkeley department of Epidemiology. After spending three years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador working in family planning and intimate partner violence, Caitlin went on to earn her MHS in population, family and reproductive health from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. [...]
Claire Norris is the Administrator for the Bixby Center and also coordinates the activities of the Global Health Office. She has over 25 years experience in nonprofit and university settings. Claire received her Masters in Public Administration from Golden Gate University, San Francisco, with a dual emphasis in Health Care Administration and Administrative Organization and [...]
Daniel Perlman, Ph.D., a research medical anthropologist at the Bixby Center, has more than twenty years experience planning, implementing, and evaluating primary health care programs in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. His graduate courses at the School of Public Health include qualitative research methods, the social dimensions of international health, and the ethics of international [...]
Kate Bedford is the Communications Manager for the Bixby Center for Population Health and Sustainability. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Health and Social Behavior Program at the School of Public Health, where she was the teaching assistant for Bixby classes including Poverty and Population and Family Planning, Population Change and Health. Before coming [...]
PH 181 Graduate Student Instructor
Kathryn Stewart graduated from Scripps College in Claremont, California in 1999 with a BA in Politics and International Relations. Kathryn spent a summer working at the Population Council in Mexico City, where she did research for her senior thesis focusing on abortion politics in Mexico. Shortly after graduation, [...]
Leah Marsh is the undergraduate assistant for the Bixby Center. She is majoring in Interdisciplinary Field Studies and her curriculum and thesis will focus on reproductive health in developing countries. She is also fulfilling premed requirements as she is aspiring to go to medical school. She spent a year in between her freshman and sophomore [...]
Ndola Prata is a physician and medical demographer from Angola. She is an Assistant Adjunct Professor of Maternal and Child Health in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley and also serves as the Scientific Director in the Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability and the Medical Director of Venture Strategies for Health [...]
Paige Passano completed her MPH in International Public Health in New Orleans at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in 2002.
From 2003-2007, she worked for Population Services International (PSI) in Mumbai, India. At PSI, she designed outreach materials for the Bombay Sex Workers Project and led The MSM Initiative, a street-based intervention [...]
PH 181 Graduate Student Instructor
Sunny is currently in her 2nd year in Maternal and Child Health MPH program. She graduated from UCLA in June 2008, with a Bachelors of Science degree in Physiological Sciences. She hopes to study factors that affect the health of infants in underserved communities. During her undergraduate career, Sunny as a [...]
Virginia (Ginny) Gidi is currently a 3rd year student in the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH). She received her BA in Spanish and Latin American/Caribbean Studies and her MPH in Health Management from the University of Michigan. After graduation, Ginny spent 6 years working in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of [...]
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