Jason Corburn, PhD, MCP
Director, Center for Global Healthy Cities
Co-Director, Joint MPH-MCP degree program
Jason Corburn is a Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning and the School of Public Health. He Directs the Center for Global Healthy Cities and co-directs the Joint Master of City Planning and Master of Public Health degree program.
Mahasin S. Mujahid, PhD, MS, FAHA
Professor, Epidemiology
Lillian E. I. and Dudley J. Aldous Chair in the School of Public Health
Mahasin S. Mujahid is a professor of Epidemiology whose research is devoted to examining neighborhood health effects, cardiovascular health disparities, and racial/ethnic health inequities over the life course.
Rachel Morello-Frosch, PhD, MPH
Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Rachel Morello-Frosch is an environmental health scientist and Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management and the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on social determinants of environmental health disparities.
Daniel Rodríguez
Chancellor's Professor of City & Regional Planning
Daniel A. Rodríguez is Chancellor’s Professor of City and Regional Planning and Director of the Institute for Transportation Studies. His research focuses on the relationship between transportation, land development, and the health and environmental consequences that follow.
Osagie K. Obasogie
Professor of Law and Professor of Bioethics, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program, Community Health Sciences
Osagie K. Obasogie is the Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law with a joint appointment in the Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health.
Charisma Acey
Research Director of IURD; Associate Professor of City & Regional Planning; Arcus Chair in Social Justice and the Built Environment
Charisma Acey is an associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning.
Victor Pineda, PhD
Director, Inclusive Cities Lab
Dr. Pineda directs the Inclusive Cities Lab at UC Berkeley, founded the Global Network for Disability Inclusive and Accessible Urban Development, the GAP-PWD Partner Constituent Group, and co-founded the Smart Cities for All Global Initiative.
Lead Project Coordinator
Alice Bruno
School of Public Health, Master in Health and Social Behavior
Alice Bruno (she/her/hers) is a second-year Master’s in Public Health (MPH) student specializing in Health and Social Behavior. Her research explores the complex interplay of social, structural, and environmental factors that shape health inequities across the lifespan. She is passionate about co-creating public health programs alognside communities and strives to employ participatory methods to inform evidence-based and human-centered interventions. As the Lead Project Coordinator at the Center for Global Healthy Cities, she helps oversee research projects and partakes in coalition building with project partners locally and gloablly.
Graduate Student Researcher
Carson Mays
Department of City & Regional Planning
Carson Mays (he/him) is a second year Master of City Planning student concentrating in Environmental Planning and Healthy Cities. He is interested in how public open space can be used as a tool to address climate resiliency and improve health outcomes for urban communities.
Undergraduate Intern
Leah Biruk
Public Health
Leah(she/her/hers) graduated from UC Berkeley in 2025 with a BA in Public Health. She is on the pre-med track where she plans to combine her passion of improving health equity within disadvantaged communities with her interest in medicine. Currently, her research focuses on GRID Alternatives, which works to promote energy justice within Richmond by providing low-income families with solar panels.
Undergraduate Intern
Tapish Singh
Molecular & Cell Biology
Tapish is a fourth-year undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, majoring in Molecular and Cell Biology and minoring in City Planning. On the pre-med track, they are interested in pediatrics and committed to addressing health inequities in primary care. Their undergraduate involvement includes endocrinology research on African clawed frogs, working as an EMT, and participating in a student organization designing and building ADUs. Currently, Tapish is researching Richmond's Community Crisis Response Program, an alternative response initiative for nonviolent crises.
Undergraduate Intern
Catherine Flowers
Public Health & Sociology
Catherine (she/they) is a fourth-year undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, majoring in Public Health and Sociology. She is passionate about health equity and interested in community-based participatory research. Currently, their work focuses on GRID Alternative's work providing solar panels to low-income families in Richmond, and the grant activities of the Richmond Department of Children and Youth.
Undergraduate Intern
Mia Palacios Haertel
Public Health
Mia (she/her) is majoring in Public Health and minoring in Chicanx/Latinx Studies. She is passionate about pursuing a career in the medical field and community health with an emphasis on preventative care and housing as a social determinant of health. Currently, she is working with the City of Richmond on updating the Health in All Policies Report, collecting health data, and highlighting key achievements of Richmond’s programs.
Undergraduate Intern
Anna Zhao
Psychology, Public Health
Anna (she/her/hers) graduated from UC Berkeley in 2024 with a BA in Psychology and Public Health, as well as a minor in Education. She is currently on the pre-med track with an interest in pursuing psychiatry, with a focus on health justice and health policy concerning justice-involved population. Throughout her undergraduate years, Anna had been involved in research related to youth mental health with a focus on social-emotional learning implementation science, worked as an EMT, and volunteered as a tutor at San Quentin State Prison. In her free time, you can hear Anna playing the bells (an instrument called the carillon) on the Sather Tower on campus!
- Joe Griffin, DrPH student
- Xing Gao, DrPH student
- Dr. Michael Mendez, PhD
- Dr. Reza Shirazi, PhD
- David Padilla, MPH
- Tzuyan Stessa Chao, PhD
- Ashley Davis, MPH
- Cyrus Wofford, MCP, MPH
- Elinor Simek, MPH candidate
- Meghana Ammula, MPH
- Alina Akheli Chhetri, BS, BA
- Julia Buford, MCP