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Bess H. Marcus (born 1961) is an American clinical health psychologist and scholar of health behavior changes. She is currently Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University,having previously served as dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. [1] Before coming to Brown,Marcus was the founder of the UC San Diego Institute for Public Health and inaugural Senior Associate Dean for Public Health,at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. [2] [3]
Marcus received a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis in 1984. She completed her M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Auburn University in 1986 and 1988. [4]
In 2017,Bess Marcus became dean of the Brown University School of Public Health,succeeding inaugural dean Terrie Fox Wetle. Marcus was succeeded by Ashish Jha in 2020. [5]
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University,located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston,Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard-MIT School for Health Officers,the nation's first graduate training program in population health,which was founded in 1913 and then became the Harvard School of Public Health in 1922.
The California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) was founded in 1969 by the California Psychological Association. It is part of the for-profit Alliant International University where each campus's Clinical Psychology Psy.D. and Ph.D. program is individually accredited by the American Psychological Association. The school has trained approximately half of the licensed psychologists in California.
The Rady School of Management is the graduate business school of the University of California,San Diego,United States. It was established in 2001. It offers full-time and part-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs,a full-time Master of Finance degree,a full-time and part-time Master of Science in Business Analytics degree and a full-time Master of Professional Accountancy degree. In addition,the Rady School has a Ph.D. program,offers non-degree executive development programs,and undergraduate courses including minors in business,accounting,supply chain and entrepreneurship &innovation. The Rady School of Management is the second-youngest professional school at UC San Diego.
The University of California San Diego School of Medicine is the graduate medical school of the University of California,San Diego. It was the third medical school in the University of California system,after those established at UCSF and UCLA,and is the only medical school in the San Diego metropolitan area. It is closely affiliated with the medical centers that are part of UC San Diego Health.
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The Graduate School of Public Health is one of the professional graduate schools of San Diego State University within its College of Health and Human Services. Located in the College Area neighborhood of San Diego,California,it is part of the Association of Schools of Public Health and is fully accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health. San Diego State University is a member of the Western Association of Graduate Schools,the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States,and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health. The GSPH also maintains its own chapter in the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health.
Ashish Kumar Jha is an Indian-American general internist physician and academic serving as the White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator. He is currently on a short-term leave from the Brown University School of Public Health where he served as the Dean. Prior to Brown,he was the K.T. Li Professor of Global Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute,and a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group. Jha is recognized as one of the leading health policy scholars in the nation. Jha's role at Brown University focuses on improving the quality and cost of health care,and on the impact of public health policy.
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JoAnn Trejo is an American pharmacologist,cell biologist and professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the School of Medicine at University of California,San Diego. She is also the assistant vice chancellor for Health Sciences Faculty Affairs. Trejo studies cell signalling by protease-activated G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). She is also actively involved in mentoring,education and outreach activities to increase the diversity of science.
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