UC Berkeley's Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program

03/14/2025

BIG THANKS -

Kendy Mendoza is a first-generation college student at UC Berkeley with a deep passion for community work and health. Through internships and volunteer work with various local organizations in Oakland during high school and college, Mendoza has cultivated a strong commitment to addressing health dis...

03/13/2025

Happening Now - Give Big to Support UCB's Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Programs -

Your gift will provide direct support to students including various events, trainings, and resources for MCAH students throughout the academic year.

03/12/2025

Starting Today at 9pm - Give Big to Support Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health -

Your gift will provide direct support to students including various events, trainings, and resources for MCAH students throughout the academic year.

02/21/2025

2025 Winter News from UCB CoE in MCAH -

Eskenazi’s commitment to environmental justice and advocacy for healthier environments exemplify her dedication to advancing equity in public health. She continues to mentor future generations of researchers, fostering a new wave of public health leaders passionate about environmental health and j...

11/22/2024

2024 Fall News from UCB MCAH -

In a new reflection, Indira D'Souza  (expected MPH, ’25) shares her experience attending the 2024 CityMatCH Leadership and Epidemiology Conference in Seattle, WA, where she received the Student Poster Award as well as the Policy Innovation Award.

11/01/2024

Register Today! UCB MCAH Alumni Community Building and Networking Event on Sun. Nov. 17th -

This event will provide an excellent opportunity for reconnecting with fellow MCAH alumni, expanding your professional network, and engaging with our vibrant community partners. Whether you are a UCB MCAH MPH graduate, a community partner, or a friend of our program, your presence is welcome!  

10/17/2024

Register to Celebrate the 2024 UCB MCAH Leadership Award Recipients! -

This event will provide an excellent opportunity for reconnecting with fellow MCAH alumni, expanding your professional network, and engaging with our vibrant community partners. Whether you are a UCB MCAH MPH graduate, a community partner, or a friend of our program, your presence is welcome!  

08/16/2024

2024 Summer News from UCB MCAH -

Save the date for our annual Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (MCAH) Alumni Networking & Community Building Event this fall:

04/04/2024

Birth By Us is a pregnancy & postpartum app that empowers Black mothers and birthing people to shape their own birthing experience while giving providers the insights and data to best support their birth. As it is co-founded by one of our alumni, Ijeoma Uche (MPH '23), we hope that our community can tap in to support them by voting at https://www.nba.com/kings/capitalizetech! 💞

03/15/2024

BIG THANKS -

Angie Zhao is a senior undergraduate student majoring in Public Health and double minoring in Global Poverty & Practice and Clinical & Counseling Psychology at UC Berkeley. Currently, she is a research intern at Kaiser Permanente, working on lifestyle medicine among medical professional populations,...

03/14/2024

Support MCAH students in doing their best work by donating to the UC Berkeley Special Fund! 🌟

ends 9 pm PST tonight! Donate any amount, big or small, at this link: http://tinyurl.com/mcah-biggive24 🤗

03/14/2024

Happening Now - Give Big to Support Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health -

Your gift will provide direct support to students including various events, trainings, and resources for MCAH students throughout the academic year.

12/14/2023

Hello MCAH Community,

As we know from research, Black birthing people are more likely to experience health complications during both the pregnancy and postpartum periods. A UC Berkeley doctoral student is currently seeking Black study participants from LA county to better understand their needs and desired innovations during these periods. The overall goal of the research is to contribute to improved health outcomes for Black birthing people within CA.

Study participants must meet four eligibility requirements:
(1) Black/African American
(2) 18 years or older
(3) Currently 1 week to 1 year post-delivery
(4) Reside in California

Eligible candidates who complete a one-hour virtual interview will receive $40 compensation. Eligible candidates may indicate their interest to participate here: https://tinyurl.com/postpartum-care

11/30/2023

Hello MCAH Community,

We'd like to bring your attention to a meaningful research study on maternal and child health, examining the effects of COVID-19 on working conditions for new moms in the retail and food service industries.

A PhD student is currently seeking participants—moms who gave birth in the US in 2022 and work in retail or hospitality. The study involves one-hour online interviews and participants will receive a $30 Amazon gift card.

Your support in sharing the online recruitment flyer would be highly appreciated. This research aims to shed light on how working conditions in these industries impact infant and maternal health. The more individuals reached, the more impactful the findings will be.

10/19/2023

The Maternal and Child Health Community Engaged Learning Lab (MCH CELL) for Community-Partnered Teaching presents:

“The Art of Evaluation: Building, Bridging and Broadening Program Impact through Community Engaged Courses."
Thurs. November 2, 2023 from 11:00 AM-1:00 PM (PT) / 2:00-4:00 PM (ET)

Workshop three of the MCH CELL for Community-Partnered Teaching will highlight a graduate-level public health program evaluation course at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. It will include an overview of the program evaluation course, the collaborative assignment, and the value of community-partnered evaluation courses for both students and public health organizations. For the first part of the session, there will be a recorded presentation. While the second part will be a group discussion to learn from one another on how others have engaged in similar partnerships and courses, including challenges and ways to overcome them.

Presenters:
* Julianna Deardorff, PhD – Associate Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
* Kelechi Uwaezuoke, DrPH, MPH - Assistant Director for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnerships, SF BUILD at San Francisco State University

REGISTER: https://georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtdOqtrDosEt1c4pLX1lZawqm4-J1w_Sz7 #/registration

For participants who require closed captioning, automatically-generated captions will be available in: Chinese (Simplified; Beta), Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese (Beta), Korean (Beta), Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. Full viewing of the transcript is available through the in-meeting side panel and participants can also save fully closed captions/transcripts.

Questions? Contact Jessica Ross at [email protected]

This collaborative workshop series is supported by MCH Navigator, the Association of Teachers of Maternal & Child Health (ATMCH)'s Innovative Teaching Award, and HRSA's MCHB Centers of Excellence and Public Health Catalyst Programs.

02/08/2023

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01/04/2023

New in the Journal of Adolescent Health! Epidemiology PhD student Julia Acker and colleagues at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research NorCal, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and UCSF's Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics link with earlier , a predictor of women's lifelong health. https://t.co/XwwN9OyQz3