Associate Professor Adrian Aguilera’s research leverages digital & mobile technologies along with innovative methods such as machine learning to improve health & mental healthcare of low-income & ethnic minority populations, with a focus on Latinx & Spanish-speaking populations.
Dr. Chang’s research involves investigating the structural determinants that impact the health of unhoused people, focusing on the role of social policies (e.g. encampment sweeps) on unhoused people’s health outcomes. Recently, she has led mixed-methods studies which examine the soaring numbers of people dying while unhoused in Santa Clara County. Her lab developed the SCC Unhoused Death website, a...
Associate Professor Yu-Ling Chang's scholarly interests focus on the relationships among poverty, inequality and social safety net programs. Her research addresses both the process of policymaking and the consequences of public policies for economically disadvantaged populations. Her research agenda is informed by her professional experiences serving and advocating for individuals suffering from economic hardship during the global economic recession in the late 2000s.
Dr. Chang's current research projects investigate the racial equity and CalWORKs reforms in California State in the...
Associate Professor and Mack Distinguished Professor Emmeline Chuang's research focuses on how health and human service organizations can improve service access and well-being of underserved populations, with a specific focus on: (1) how the nature and quality of inter-organizational relationships between health and human service organizations affects service access and client outcomes; (2) how managers and other organizational leaders can best support evidence uptake by frontline practitioners; and (3) how the design of work affects provider and staff satisfaction and...
Anu Manchikanti Gómez is a scholar of sexual and reproductive health equity who uses participatory and engaged approaches to produce knowledge that centers the communities most affected by reproductive oppression. As an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Social Welfare and the director of the Sexual Health and Reproductive Equity (SHARE) Program, she has a long track record of conducting innovative and rigorous research that...
Tina Sacks is an associate professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare. Her fields of interest include racial inequities in health, social determinants of health, and poverty and inequality. Professor Sacks focuses on the how macro-structural forces, including structural discrimination and immigration, affect women’s health. Her current work investigates the persistence of racial and gender discrimination in health care settings among racial/ethnic minorities who are not poor. She published a book on this subject entitled Invisible Visits: Black Middle Class Women in the...
Valerie B. Shapiro, PhD, is an associate professor jointly appointed in Social Welfare and Public Health, and the Co-Director of the Center for Prevention Research in Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Shapiro was recently selected as a William T. Grant Foundation Scholar. She is currently leading continuous improvement efforts for the FEMA/SAMHSA funded CalHope Student Support initiative.
Dr. Shapiro's research is in the prevention of mental, emotional, and behavioral problems in children and youth through the adoption, implementation, and sustainability...
Paul T. Sterzing, PhD is an associate professor at the School of Social Welfare and a graduate of the Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Sterzing is currently the Co-director of the Center for Prevention Research in Social Welfare, and a faculty affiliate with the Gender and Women's Studies Department.
Dr. Sterzing’s research fits within the following four interconnected areas:
Rates and Social Ecological Correlates of Bullying Involvement Roles among Vulnerable Adolescent...
