BCSM People

BCSM Co-Chairs:

Seth M. Holmes

Environmental Science, Policy & Management (also affiliated with Anthropology and Public Health), UC Berkeley

Charles L. Briggs (on leave from BCSM Spring 2025)

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Advisory Committee

Troy Duster

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Denise Herd

Behavioral Sciences, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Amani M. Nuru-Jeter

Community Health and Human Development, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Affiliated Faculty & Researchers

Vincanne Adams

Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF Berkeley Joint Medical Anthropology

Colette Auerswald

Community Health and Human Development, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Alissa Bernstein

Health Policy Studies, UC San Francisco

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Presidents Postdoctoral Fellow, UC San Francisco

Khiara M. Bridges

Law, UC Berkeley

Xóchitl Castańeda

Public Health, UC Berkeley

Nancy Chen

Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz

Renee Clarke

Research Fellow, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine

Elena Conis

Journalism, UC Berkeley

Jason Corburn

Public Health and City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Shari Dworkin

Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF

Ugo F. Edu

African American Studies, UCLA

Mark Fleming

School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Angela Garcia

Anthropology, Stanford

Amy Garlin

Public Health, UC Berkeley

Cristiana Giordano

Anthropology, UC Davis

Deborah Gordon

Humanities & Social Sciences, University of California, San Francisco

Andrej Grubacic

Anthropology and Social Change, California Institute of Integral Studies

Jodi Halpern

Bioethics and Medical Humanities, UC Berkeley School of Public Health/UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program

Michael Harvey

Public Health, Brown University

Cori Hayden

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Elizabeth Hoover

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

S. Lochlann Jain

Anthropology, Stanford

Jennifer James

Social & Behavioral Sciences; Bioethics, UCSF

Current Postdoctoral and Visiting Scholars

Richard Elovich

Visiting Researcher

Julieta Marcela Maure

Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona

Rima Praspaliauskiene

Independent Scholar

Maryani Palupy Rasidjan

ANSIRH UC San Francisco - UC Berkeley Joint Program in Medical Anthropology, UC Berkeley/UCSF

Graduate Students

Sheyda Aboii

Medical Anthropology, UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco

Alexander Adia

Health Policy and Management, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Jane Angar

Political Science, UC Berkeley

Lindsay Berkowitz

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Juan Carlos Bordes

School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Laura Díaz

School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Fabián Fernández

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Joel Ferrall

Anthropology and Medicine, University of Southern California

Benjamin Fields

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Jeremy Gottlieb

UCSF-UCB Medical Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Alein Y. Haro-Garcia

Public Health, UC Berkeley

Sara Johnsen

Sociology, UCLA

Cherod Johnson

African American Studies, UC Berkeley

Nazineen Kandahari

UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program, UCB/UCSF

Daryl Mangosing

Public Health, UC Berkeley

Farnam Mohebi

Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Bernardo Moreno Peniche

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Bernardo Moreno

Medical Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Joohyun Park

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Kameswari (Kamu) Potharaju

UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program

Reiley Reed

School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Julio Salas

Sociology, UC Berkeley

Nathan Tilton

Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Katherine Wolf

Environmental Science (ESPM), UC Berkeley

Mo'e Yaisikana

School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Anna Zaret

Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley