People

Berkeley Center for Social Medicine

Co-Chairs

Charles Briggs, Anthropology, UC Berkeley (In Residence)

Seth M. Holmes, Environmental Science, Policy & Management and Medical Anthropology, UC Berkeley (In Residence)

Academic Coordinator

Deborah Lustig, UC Berkeley

Affiliated Faculty

Vincanne Adams, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF (In Residence)

Amani M. Allen (formerly Nuru-Jeter), Community Health and Human Development, UC Berkeley School of Public Health (In Residence)

Colette Auerswald, Community Health and Human Development, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Alissa Bernstein, Health Policy Studies, UC San Francisco

Catherine Bliss, Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF

Xóchitl Castańeda, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Nancy Chen, Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz

Elena Conis, Journalism, UC Berkeley

Jason Corburn, Public Health and City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley

Shari Dworkin, Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF

Mark Fleming, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Angela Garcia, Anthropology, Stanford 

Cristiana Giordano, Anthropology, UC Davis 

Deborah Gordon, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF (In Residence)

Michael Harvey, Public Health, San Jose State University (In Residence)

Cori Hayden, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Jodi Halpern, Bioethics and Medical Humanities, UC Berkeley School of Public Health/UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program

Denise Herd, Behavioral Sciences, UC Berkeley School of Public Health 

S. Lochlann Jain, Anthropology, Stanford 

Sharon Kaufman, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF 

Barbara Koenig, Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF

Kelly Knight, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF (In Residence)

Thomas W. Laqueur, History, UC Berkeley

Yan Long, Sociology, UC Berkeley

Phuoc Le, Medicine, UCSF

Clara Mantini-Briggs, Anthropology, UC Berkeley (In Residence)

Akhil Mehra, Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, UCSF

Rachel Morello-Frosch, Public Health and Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley

Mahasin S. Mujahid, Medical Research & Public Health, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

Karen Nakamura, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Nick Nelson, Internal Medicine, Highland Hospital 

Eugene Richardson, Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Aihwa Ong, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Carlos Penilla, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, UCSF

James Quesada, Anthropology, San Francisco State University (In Residence)

Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Jeff Schonberg, Anthropology, San Francisco State University (In Residence)

Sriram Shamasunder, Medicine, UCSF

Janet Shim, Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF

Claire Snell-Rood, Public Health, UC Berkeley

Ann Swidler, Sociology, UC Berkeley

Loïc Wacquant, Sociology, UC Berkeley 

Ian Whitmarsh, Anthropology, History and Social Medicine, UCSF (In Residence)

Current Visiting Scholars in Residence

Alessandro Bisio, MD, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley

Sam Dubal, MD, Ph.D., Medical Anthropology, UCSF-UC Berkeley

Valéria Mendonça de Macedo, Professor, Anthropology, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

Ariana Thompson-Lastad, PhD, UC San Francisco

Please click here for a list of our past visiting scholars.

Graduate Students

Angela Aguilar, Ethnic Studies

Lindsay Berkowitz, Sociology

Emma Dobbins, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program

Margaret Mary Downey, Social Welfare

Gabby Falzone, Education

Raphael Frankfurter, Medical Anthropology

Walter Gómez, Social Welfare

Alein Y. Haro-Garcia, Public Health

Zahra Hayat, Anthropology

Nazineen Kandahari, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program

Matty Lichtenstein, Sociology

Carlos Martinez, Medical Anthropology

Nallely Mejia, Sociology

Meghna Mukherjee, Sociology

Joshua Neff, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program

Meredith Palmer, Geography

Valentín Sierra, Social Welfare, UC Berkeley

Levi Vonk, Medical Anthropology