University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health

The class, Urban Gun Violence Prevention: A Public Health Perspective, was BPH's first course dedicated to addressing urban gun violence.

Dr. Cheri A. Pies, who blazed a trail for lesbian mothers and became a national leader in women's health, died on July 4, 2023. She was 73.

For more than 80 years, Berkeley Public Health has championed equity and justice around the world.  But in 2020—when vigorous calls for racial justice in the U.S. were sparked by […]

Infectious disease experts said polio being detected in New York is alarming, but...

As the BA.5 subvariant has driven up coronavirus infections in L.A. County, contact tracers are only reaching a fraction of reported cases.

We asked experts at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health to comment on the immediate and long-term ramifications of this decision.

To honor Black History Month 2022, we asked Black members of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health community what the month means to them.

Single-payer systems in economically advanced capitalist countries like ours produce better health at much lower costs.

Can there be scientific certainty in a pandemic? Ann C. Keller of UC Berkeley says no, urging the CDC to keep this in mind.

Tampons are one of the most popular menstruation products in a growing market that now includes period underwear, menstrual cups and more.

She made her name with a watershed book for same-sex parents and later studied the impact of racial and economic inequality on health.

With support from the Barr-Campbell Family Foundation, the initiative will offer 25 fully paid scholarships per year to online MPH students.

The CDC recommends that people in New York and Los Angeles wear masks indoors. Masks still prevent infection, even if people don't wear them all the time.

Children who play team athletics appear to have fewer mood and behavioral problems than nonathletes, a new study found.

The timing of this surge in the H3N2 virus — one of the two forms of Influenza A, the other being H1N1 — continues a pattern that has emerged during the coronavirus pandemic. It has become harder to predict outbreaks of communicable diseases.

A new analysis shows that travel distance to abortion facilities may be an insurmountable barrier to abortion access in the United States.

Berkeley faculty recipients of the 2022 Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence and Equity discuss their impact on campus

Efforts are underway to use more patient-reported outcomes in trials and to equip doctors to recognize and treat the disease in diverse patient populations.

Stone, the current interim dean, will assume the role of dean on July 1, the latest chapter in her two decades at Berkeley Social Welfare. The post Susan Stone named dean of Berkeley Social Welfare appeared first on Berkeley News.

Exercise is Medicine On Campus is an increasingly popular health, wellness and research initiative, providing hundreds of students consultations with coaches and mentors each year.