INVESTIGATORS

Abbey Alkon, Ph.D. – has a master's in nursing and public health from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in epidemiology from UC Berkeley. She works as a research epidemiologist for the MacArthur Foundation Network on Development and Psychopathology at UC Berkeley and is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at UC San Francisco.

Tom Boyce, MD – is a professor of Epidemiology and Child Development and the head of the division of health and medical sciences. His research interests include: Developmental psychobiology of stress in young children and early contextual and biological risk factors for developmental, psychopathology, social, and behavioral factors in disease pathogenesis.

Maximiliano Cuevas, MD – is Chief Executive Officer of Clínica de Salud del Valle Salinas, a network of non-profit clinics he helped found in 1980. Dr. Cuevas grew up in a farmworker family in the Salinas Valley and worked in the fields as a young man. After attending medical school and becoming a Board-certified OB-GYN, Dr. Cuevas returned to the Salinas Valley to bring health care services to low-income community members. Clinica de Salud provides comprehensive health care services to many low-income residents of the Salinas Valley, including prenatal, pediatric, general adult primary health care services, and dental care.

Martha Harnly, MPH – has an MPH from UC Berkeley in Environmental Health Sciences and she is a research scientist in the Environmental Health Investigation Branch of the California Department of Health Services. Her research interests include exposure assessment, mercury contamination monitoring, and pesticide exposure in farmworking families.

Nina Holland, Ph.D. – is Adjunct Professor of Genetics and Toxicology at the School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley. Her research is focused on molecular epidemiology, reproductive toxicology, biorepositories, and in particular on the effects of environmental toxicants on molecular, cytogenetic, and immunological biomarkers in children and adolescents.

Nicholas Jewell, Ph.D. – is a professor of Biostatistics and Statistics at UC Berkeley. Dr. Jewell is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. His research interests include biostatistical techniques in epidemiological data analysis and stochastic processes, genomics, and statistical methods related to infectious diseases.

Caroline Johnson, Ph.D. – has her Ph.D. in counseling psychology and has completed postdoctoral work in advanced neuropsychology. She is the former director of the Neuropsychology (Pediatric) Assessment Service in the Department of Neurology at Children's Hospital, Oakland.

Jim Leckie, Ph.D. – received his Ph.D. from Harvard in Environmental Health Sciences and is a professor of environmental engineering and applied earth sciences at Stanford University.

Michael Lipsett, MD – has a JD from UC Berkeley and an MD from UC San Diego. He is currently the Public Health Medical Officer with the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment. Dr. Lipsett is also an assistant clinical professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UC San Francisco. His research interests include air pollution, asthma, and respiratory health.

Burt Lubin, MD – received his MD from University of Pittsburgh Medical School. He is director of medical research at Children’s Hospital, Oakland and an adjunct professor of pediatrics at UC San Francisco. Dr. Lubin is a specialist in hematology and sickle cell disease.

Janet Macher, Ph.D. – is an air pollution research specialist with the California Department of Health Services. She has a master’s degree from the University of California and doctorate from Harvard University with emphasis on industrial hygiene, public health, and microbiology. Dr. Macher studies engineering measures to control airborne infectious and hypersensitivity diseases, evaluates methods to collect and identify airborne biological material, and participates in investigations of building-related illness outbreaks in the state of California.

Tom McKone, Ph.D. – is an adjunct professor in Environmental Health Sciences at UC Berkeley. His research interests include risk assessment methods, mass transfer at environmental and human/environment boundaries, model uncertainty and reliability in exposure/risk assessment, environmental and occupational radioactivity, biotransfer and bioconcentration.

James Meyers, Ph.D. – has a Ph.D. in education from Harvard and an MPH in health education from UC Berkeley. He is an Agricultural and Environmental Health Specialist with the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at UC Berkeley. His research interests include ergonomics and agriculture, pesticide regulation, and agricultural health and safety.

Ira Tager, MD – is a professor of Epidemiology at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and the director for Family and Community Health. Dr. Tager is also an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow. His research interests include respiratory health effects of smoking during pregnancy, development of exposure assessment instruments, and effects on oxidant and particulate air pollution on cardio-respiratory morbidity and mortality.