Faculty & Staff

John R. Balmes is a Professor Emeritus of Environmental Health Sciences whose research is focused on the respiratory, cardiovascular and metabolic health effects of various air pollutants and occupational agents.Read more about John Balmes, MD

Alan has degrees in biomechanics and biomedical engineering. He is the senior engineer on staff at the UCB/UCSF Ergonomics Graduate Training Program. He spent the last 13 years collaborating on research related to health and safety issues surrounding the use of hand-operated drills used in...Read more about Alan Barr, MS

Degree Program: Master of Public Health

Graduated: 2024

Assistant Clinical Professor, has practiced in OH for over 13 years, and currently practices as an OH NP at Pixar (computer animation co.) and Adult Nurse Practitioner at UCSF’s Screening and Acute Care Clinic. She is an expert in the prevention and treatment of work-related injuries and...Read more about Nicole Collman, RN, ANP-BC, CNS

Sadie Costello is an occupational and environmental epidemiologist at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. She has studied a range of chronic disease outcomes, including heart disease and cancer, in relation to particulate exposures in light metal manufacturing, metalworking fluids in...Read more about Sadie Costello, PhD, MPH

Laurel is an EHS Manager at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and has over 25 years of ES&H experience. At Berkeley Lab, she manages a team of Industrial Hygienists and Safety Specialists, who support research operations and a broad range health and safety programs. She has previously...Read more about Laurel Davis, MPH

Associate Clinical Professor with a focus on OH in healthcare settings including medical surveillance programs, injured worker care, and case management, infectious disease prevention and management of exposures, immunizations, and bloodborne pathogen exposures. She also practices as a NP...Read more about Sandra Domeracki, RN, MSN, FNP-BC, COHN-S, FAAOHN

Ellen Eisen is a Professor trained in biostatistics and interested in questions about the role of work in health and the contribution of occupational exposures to the risk of disease.Read more about Ellen Eisen, PhD, ScD

Sheiphali Gandhi, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco in the Divisions of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine and Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy Medicine. She is a dual-boarded pulmonologist and occupational/...Read more about Sheiphali Gandhi, MD, MPH

Jay Graham’s research contributes to the development of more efficient and effective approaches to scale-up public health initiatives for the prevention and control of infectious diseases.Read more about Jay Graham, PhD, MBA, MPH

Associate Professor and Director Carisa Harris Adamson, PhD, CPE is the primary graduate advisor for M.S., MPH and Ph.D...Read more about Carisa Harris, PhD, CPE

Associate Clinical Professor, teaches OH and Diverse Worker Populations (N273A) and is responsible for the clinical training in the MS Program of 2nd-year students (N415.28B) and for the development and revision of the MS curriculum. Her areas of interest include OEHN, primary care,...Read more about Karen Hill, Ph.D., ANP-C, MSN, RN

Meg is an EH&S specialist for the Department of Occupational Medicine at UCSF. She also serves and an instructor and development team member working with the University of California Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (...Read more about Meg Honan, MS, CPE, PT

Frederick (Freddie) Houghton is an EH&S Specialist for the Department of Occupational Medicine at UCSF. He recently earned his M.S. from UC Berkeley in mechanical engineering with a concentration in biomechanics and an emphasis in human factors and ergonomics, as well as his B.S. in...Read more about Frederick Houghton

Ann C. Keller is an Associate Professor of Health Politics and Policy whose research projects focus on exploring the nature and use of scientific and technical expertise in public decision making.Read more about Ann Keller, PhD

Dr. Niklas Krause, MD, MPH, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF with expertise in the epidemiology of low back pain related to work and psychosocial and work organizational factors. Professor Krause lectures in PH269C and PH269D and advises students conducting...Read more about Dr. Niklas Krause, MD, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor, has been a core faculty member of the program since 2010. She received her PhD from UCSF in 2007 and post-doctoral training in public health and epidemiology at NIOSH through the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program. Dr. Lee has 19 years of research...Read more about Soo-Jeong Lee, RN, PhD, ANP

Biomechanics of cartilage and intervertebral disc; tissue engineering; continuum modeling of soft tissues; intervertebral disc function, degeneration, and regenerationRead more about Grace O’Connell

Michelle is a Board Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE) and holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology, M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Human Factors/Ergonomics from the University of California Santa Barbara. She is a Fellow of the...Read more about Dr. Michelle Robertson, PhD, CPE

Glenn Shor is a lecturer and affiliated researcher with the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health at U.C. Berkeley, where he co-teaches a School of Public Health course on injury prevention and control. He also is a lecturer in the Department of Public Health at CSU-Sacramento, where...Read more about Glenn Shor, PhD, MPP

Gina Solomon, M.D., M.P.H. is the Chief of the Division of Occupational, Environmental and Climate Medicine at UCSF. In this role she oversees clinical occupational and environmental health at UCSF Health, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the San Francisco Veterans...Read more about Gina Solomon, MD, MPH