Health Policy and Management, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Alexander Adia is a doctoral student in Health Policy (Population and Data Science Track). Alexander's research works towards the achievement of health equity and the addressing of health disparities, with a focus on identifying how market and policy changes can (intentionally or unintentionally) influence such outcomes. His existing projects include analyses on medical debt, provider market consolidation and its impacts on patients, and quality of care for Medicaid patients. His work prior to his doctoral program included research on data disaggregation for Asian Americans, Filipinx...
Jane (Mango) Angar is pursuing her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests lie in the intersection of political violence and disability politics, focusing on how disability influences state consolidation, citizenship, and economic marginalization in former British colonies. Her dissertation project aims to delve into the history and institutionalization of disability rights movements within these regions, particularly in Africa. The project is based on interviews with disability rights activists and archival research in Zambia, Kenya,...
Born in Ecuador, Juan Carlos Bordes has had a lengthy journey to become a doctoral candidate in Public Health at UC Berkeley. At age 16, he and his family immigrated from Ecuador to the US to start anew. This change included a new culture, language, and more. Although challenging, these experiences began a process of building resiliency in him.
Juan Carlos used resiliency to become the first in his family to obtain undergraduate and graduate education. Additionally, working in healthcare for the past ten years ignited his passion for creating inclusive workplace environments...
Laura Diaz is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Health Sciences at UC Berkeley where she studies how biomarkers of mitochondrial dysfunction can shed light on the underpinnings between exposure to social and environmental stressors on atopic disease among children in frontline environmental justice communities. Having grown up in a frontline environmental justice community in the San Francisco Bay Area, her work is centered on combating environmental injustice in partnership with members of her and other frontline communities. She co-founded Partners for Equity and Research at Sonoma State...
Fabián Fernández is a student in the joint UCSF-UCB M.D./Ph.D. program in Medical Anthropology. He researches issues of safety, workplace violence, and policing in U.S. Emergency Departments. In his time in the Bay Area, he has organized with healthcare workers from Do No Harm Coalition fighting against wage theft, evictions, and police sweeps. He has also worked to support individuals and families affected by police violence. He models his healing work from years of practice with Clínica Martín Baró, a student-run free clinic grounded in latin-american liberation psychology. He...
Jeremy Gottlieb is an MD-PhD student in medical anthropology. They study changing ideas of the human and subjectivity through ethnographic research with neuropsychiatric researchers, clinicians, and those living with Deep Brain Stimulation as a treatment for psychiatric illnesses.
