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Winter 2023 Newsletter Contents
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Complete our Interest Form to be Featured on our CoE Website!
Are you interested in being featured on the website for the UC Berkeley Center of Excellence (CoE) in Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health (MCAH)? Is there an accomplishment you'd like to highlight among our community? Is there an event you'd like to promote? If any of these are of interest to you, please fill out this form! You may also nominate someone else from the MCAH alumni community to be featured.
For questions contact mcahprogram@berkeley.edu. This form will be checked for submissions regularly and someone will follow-up with you via e-mail to create your post.
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Creating an Anti-racist Framework for a Public Health Foundations Course
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In the aftermath of the 2020 nationwide racial justice protests, the MCAH department introduced an anti-racist framework to its foundations course to deepen racial awareness among students. “We felt a strong moral responsibility to make our class responsive to the structural racism that was playing out in front of everyone’s eyes, and to prepare students to understand and embrace what it means to be anti-racist MCH leaders,” wrote Drs. Cassondra Marshall, Michael Bakal, Julianna Deardorff, and Cheri Pies, and Dean Michael C. Lu, co-authors of the published paper, which concluded that their course design can help MPH professionals confront racism in professional settings. Read more about the development of the framework here.
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Dr. Cassondra Marshall joins the Women's Health Issues Editorial Board
Cassondra Marshall, DrPH, MPH, Assistant Professor in the Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, has joined the Women’s Health Issues Editorial Board. Women’s Health Issues is the official journal of the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health, which is based at Milken Institute School of Public Health (Milken Institute SPH) at the George Washington University.
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On the Frontlines of Pesticide Exposure
Dr. Kim Harley was quoted in an Environmental Health News article highlighting how chronic, low-dose pesticide exposure among children whose mothers had higher levels of pesticides in their bodies has resulted in poor verbal skills, lower IQ scores, and increased ADHD-type and autism-type behaviors. Read more here.
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Dr. Monica Hanh (MCAH MPH ‘06) was quoted in a recent Bloomberg Law article “Trust-Building Sought With FDA’s Blood Donor Policy for Gay Men.” She highlighted how the FDA’s current blood donor policy is not evidence-based and is both discriminatory and outdated. Back in 2020, Dr. Hanh and her colleagues wrote an open letter to the FDA pushing them to adopt individual-risk based policies like other European countries.
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Join Cheralynn Corsack (MCAH MPH ‘19) as she talks about how to use evaluation to strengthen nonprofit programming. The workshop will walk you through the basics of program evaluation using easy-to-understand terms and concrete examples. Cheralynn will share how you can use data to improve your programming and show your impact, and will also highlight participatory methods for collecting, analyzing, and sharing data. This workshop is great for nonprofits who are new to data or those who are looking to deepen their use of data. Sign up here.
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We invite alumni of the UC Berkeley Center of Excellence in Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health to join the MCAH Alumni Group on Linkedin. This is a great opportunity to stay connected with our program and each other!
Click here to join the Linkedin group.
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New Cohort Annoucement:
2022-24 Advanced LEAP Scholars
In Fall 2022, we recruited our second cohort of Advanced LEAP Scholars, undergraduate students majoring in public health who have committed to completing MCAH academic coursework and hands-on training in MCAH until graduation in 2024.
We are so honored to have them in our training program and can't wait to see what they will accomplish in the future!
Click here to learn more about the new cohort and their interests in MCAH.
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The YEDI/LEAP Fellowship is an award opportunity open to Youth Equity Discovery Initiative (YEDI) undergraduate scholars. YEDI is a program of Innovations for Youth (i4Y), a cross-disciplinary research action center addressing issues of youth inequity through collaborative research, training, and community engagement. Scholars who were selected for this fellowship have demonstrated leadership, passion, and commitment to supporting the health and well-being of MCAH populations. Congratulations!
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2023 Graduating Scholars Highlight
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All of the students featured in this section are graduating this Spring 2023. They first joined our cohort of Advanced LEAP Scholars in Fall 2021 and have accomplished many achievements since joining!
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The Wallace Center’s Dr. Cassondra Marshall and Dr. Lindsay Parham published a new study on experiences of preconception counseling among pregnant women with preexisting diabetes
Available research suggests that patients with diabetes do not regularly receive preconception counseling, but information on patients’ experiences of counseling is scant. Dr. Cassondra Marshall and Dr. Lindsay Parham, alongside partners at UCSF, conducted a qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with 22 patients between October 2020 and February 2021. Pregnant patients with preexisting diabetes were recruited from a specialty diabetes and pregnancy clinic at a large academic medical center in Northern California. Interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed using an inductive and deductive content analysis approach. Click here to read the full report.
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Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability at UC Berkeley
Karen Weidert presented a top poster at the Society of Family Planning annual meeting on December 3, 2022 on behalf of herself, Ndola Prata, Eugene Kanyamanza and Evangeline Dushimeysu. The poster highlighted their work using telemedicine to increase access to 1st trimester abortion in Rwanda. Click here to view the poster.
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Berkeley's Population Center
Save the date: Berkeley’s Population Center is excited to announce that their 9th Annual Berkeley Workshop in Formal Demography will be held on campus June 5th – 9th, 2023. Email popcenter@demog.berkeley.edu to be notified when registration is open.
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Update to Clinical Guidelines for Infant Feeding for People with HIV
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The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services has updated the HIV clinical practice guidelines to include breast/chestfeeding options for individuals with HIV on antiretroviral therapy with sustained undetectable viral load. Prior clinical guidelines did not recommend individuals with HIV breast/chestfeed due to risk of HIV transmission through human milk. The updated guidelines, verbatim, are:
- The risk of postnatal HIV transmission to an infant is zero with the use of safe replacement feeding. Properly prepared formula or pasteurized human donor milk from a milk bank eliminates risk of HIV transmission to the infant.
- The risk of HIV transmission while breastfeeding is less than 1% (but not zero) for PWH on antiretroviral therapy (ART) with sustained undetectable viral load through pregnancy and postpartum.
- Clinicians should support the choices of people with HIV to breastfeed (if they are virally suppressed) or to formula/replacement feed.
- It is inappropriate to engage Child Protective Services (CPS) or similar services in response to infant feeding choices of PWH.
See all updates here.
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Dean's Speaker Series 2023: Heroes of Public Health
A Berkeley Public Health Conversation with California Surgeon General Dr. Diana Ramos
March 8, 5:45 pm – 7:00 pm PST at Colloquia, Berkeley Way West
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Join the Berkeley School of Public Health for a special conversation with Dr. Diana Ramos, Surgeon General of California. She has more than three decades of cross-cutting experience and expertise with a focus on reproductive health. A practicing OB/GYN for the majority of her career, she also juggled additional health roles, including leading the state’s public health and prevention programs at the California Department of Public Health Center for Healthy Communities, and as an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor at USC’s Keck School of Medicine.
Dr. Ramos will be in conversation with Dean Michael C. Lu.
Find the event details here.
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A conversation with Dr. Christine Henneberg on the blurred lines between abortion, motherhood, and choice
April 13, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm PDT
At this special PHAA event, physician-writer and Berkeley Public Health alumna Christine Henneberg will read from her recent memoir, Boundless: An Abortion Doctor Becomes a Mother and discuss her work as an abortion provider before and after the Supreme Court decision that overturned the right to abortion in America.
Christine Henneberg, MD, MS, is a family physician and a graduate of the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program. Before training in medicine, she received her BA in English (magna cum laude) from Pomona College, where she was also awarded the Dole-Kinney Prize in Creative Writing. Her writing on abortion has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Boston Review, Slate, The Point, The Millions, and elsewhere. Her memoir, Boundless: An Abortion Doctor Becomes a Mother, has been called “engaging, thoughtful, and tragically timely.” She lives in the Bay Area with her husband and their two young children.
Event details here.
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2023 Communities Improving Maternal Health Alliance Conference
April 18, 2023 – 1303 Young St. Dallas, Texas 75202 with option to participate virtually
Join OASH and HRSA Regions 4, 6, and 7 for our second maternal health conference. This year’s one-day conference will build upon the 2022 event and re-convene partners who influence birth outcomes (i.e., doctors, nurses, midwives, doulas, peer educators, community health workers, community members, and other public health workers) to identify actions that address persistent disparities in maternal health and reduce pregnancy-related death and disease for racial and ethnic minority birthing people residing in Regions 4, 6, & 7.
Regions 4, 6, & 7 include: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, as well as 83 federally recognized tribal nations.
Learn more and register here.
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Planned Parenthood Spring Virtual Education Series
Planned Parenthood is holding several virtual workshops to support professionals in holding conversations related to various topics, including but not limited to:
- Survivor Safe Sex Ed
- Peer Health
- Creating LGBTQ+ Inclusive Spaces
- And more!
More details here.
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- Research Fellow – Perinatal Pharmacoepidemiology, Harvard Program on Perinatal and Pediatric Pharmacoepidemiology (Hybrid; Boston, MA)
- Research Specialist – Perinatal and Pediatric Pharmacoepidemiology, Harvard Program on Perinatal and Pediatric Pharmacoepidemiology (In-person; Boston, MA)
- Scientist, Surveillance Research, American Cancer Society, (Atlanta, GA)
- Home Visiting Data Scientist [Research Scientist II, California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Maternal Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) Division (Eligible for telework; Sacramento County, CA) -- 2 positions available!
- Senior Home Visiting Data Scientist [Research Scientist III], CDPH MCAH Division (Eligible for telework; Sacramento County, CA) -- 2 positions available!
- Transgender, Gender Diverse, and Intersex Health Research and Evaluation Scientist, CDPH Office of Health Equity (Remote/Telecommute; Full-Time)
- Reproductive Freedom Equity Research Scientist, CDPH Office of Health Equity (Remote/Telecommute, Full-Time)
- Equitable Recovery Data Scientist, CDPH Office of Health Equity (Remote/Telecommute; Full-Time)
- Housing and Homelessness Research Scientist, CDPH Office of Health Equity (Remote/Telecommute; Full-Time)
- STD Clinic 340B Coordinator, CDPH STD Control Branch (Full-Time; Sacramento County OR Contra Costa County - location will be determined based on the location of the most qualified candidate)
- Data Manager/Statistical Analyst, UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences (Part-Time; Mission Bay, CA (hybrid or fully remote available options)
- Peer Mentor for Young Parent’s Support Program, Sentient Research (Remote/Telecommute; Part-Time)
- Health Equity Circle Organizer, Washington State University (Full-Time; Spokane, WA)
- Clinical Research Associate, Public Health Foundation Enterprises (Full-Time; Richmond, CA)
- Director, State & Local Government Affairs, Stanford Healthcare (Full-Time; Stanford, CA)
- System Support Analyst, CDPH MCAH Division (Eligible for telework) Deadline to apply is 3/15/2023
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Recent select publications from MCAH faculty, students, and alumni:
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Experiences of Preconception Counseling among Pregnant Women with Preexisting Diabetes: Opportunities to Improve Patient-Centered Care Cassondra J. Marshall, Lindsay Parham, Erin Hubbard, Roxanna A. Irani. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2023; 20(4):2908. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20042908.
Frontline Work and Racial Disparities in Social and Economic Pandemic Stressors During the First COVID-19 Surge Alein Y Haro-Ramos, Timothy T Brown, Julianna Deardorff, Adrian Aguilera, Keshia M Pollack Porter, Hector P Rodriguez. Health Serv Res. 2023 Jan 31; doi: 10.1111/1475-6773.14136. Online ahead of print.
In-country availability of medical abortion medicines: a description of the framework and methodology of the WHO landscape assessments Ulrika Rehnström Loi, Ndola Prata, Amy Grossman, Antonella Lavelanet, Natalie Williams, Bela Ganatra. Reprod Health. 2023 Jan 24;20(Suppl 1):20.doi: 10.1186/s12978-022-01530-7.
Risks of Intimate Partner Violence for Women Living with HIV Receiving Cash Transfers: A Qualitative Study in Shinyanga, Tanzania Rebecca Hémono, Agatha Mnyippembe, Atuganile Kalinjila, Jesca Msoma, Ndola Prata, William H Dow, Claire Snell-Rood, Amon Sabasaba, Prosper Njau, Sandra I McCoy. AIDS Behav. 2023 Jan 24. doi: 10.1007/s10461-023-03997-2. Online ahead of print.
Pregnancy outcomes and vaccine effectiveness during the period of omicron as the variant of concern, INTERCOVID-2022: a multinational, observational study Jose Villar, Constanza P Soto Conti, Robert B Gunier, Shabina Ariff, Rachel Craik, Paolo I Cavoretto, Stephen Rauch, Serena Gandino, Ricardo Nieto, Adele Winsey, Camilla Menis, Gabriel B Rodriguez, Valeria Savasi, Niyazi Tug, Sonia Deantoni, Marta Fabre, Begoña Martinez de Tejada, Maria Jose Rodriguez-Sibaja, Stefania Livio, Raffaele Napolitano, Nerea Maiz, Helena Sobrero, Ashley Peterson, Philippe Deruelle, Carolina Giudice, Jagjit S Teji, Roberto A Casale, Laurent J Salomon, Federico Prefumo, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Michael G Gravett, Marynéa Vale, Valeria Hernández, Loïc Sentilhes, Sarah R Easter, Carola Capelli, Emily Marler, Daniela M Cáceres, Guadalupe Albornoz Crespo, Ernawati Ernawati, Michal Lipschuetz, Ken Takahashi, Carmen Vecchiarelli, Teresa Hubka, Satoru Ikenoue, Gabriela Tavchioska, Babagana Bako, Adejumoke I Ayede, Brenda Eskenazi, Jim G Thornton, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Stephen H Kennedy, Aris T Papageorghiou; INTERCOVID-2022 International Consortium. Lancet. 2023 Feb 11;401(10375):447-457. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02467-9. Epub 2023 Jan 17.
Migraine and its association with pubertal maturation and behavioral traits among adolescent girls Vincent T Martin, Cecily S Fassler, Kelly J Brunst, Jun Ying, Susan Teitelbaum, Gayle C Windham, Julianna Deardorff, Mary S Wolff, Lawrence H Kushi, Frank M Biro, Susan M Pinney. Acta Neurol Belg. 2023 Jan 11. doi: 10.1007/s13760-022-02161-2. Online ahead of print.
Developing an Anti-Racist Foundations Course in MCH for MPH Students Cassondra Marshall, Michael Bakal, Julianna Deardorff, Cheri Pies & Michael C. Lu. Matern Child Health J 26 (Suppl 1), 20–25 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-021-03285-2.
'We tend to prioritise others and forget ourselves': How women's caregiving responsibilities can facilitate or impede diabetes self-management Laura E Britton, Guneet Kaur, Noelia Zork, Cassondra J. Marshall, Maureen George. Diabet Med. 2023 Mar;40(3):e15030. doi: 10.1111/dme.15030. Epub 2023 Jan 6.
Neighborhood Racial and Economic Privilege and Timing of Pubertal Onset in Girls Julia Acker, Mahasin Mujahid, Sara Aghaee, Scarlett Gomez, Salma Shariff-Marco, Brandon Chu, Julianna Deardorff, Ai Kubo. Adolesc Health. 2022 Dec 15;S1054-139X(22)00708-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2022.10.013. Online ahead of print.
Air concentrations of volatile organic compounds associated with conventional and "green" cleaning products in real-world and laboratory settings Lucia Calderon, Randy Maddalena, Marion Russell, Sharon Chen, James E S Nolan, Asa Bradman, Kim G Harley. Indoor Air. 2022 Nov;32(11):e13162. doi: 10.1111/ina.13162. |
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