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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 University of California,Davis,School of Veterinary Medicine is the largest veterinary school in the United States. Established in 1948,the school is the primary health resource for California's animal populations. In 2020,the school was again ranked first in the United States by U.S. News &World Report and in 2022,ranked second in the world by QS World University Rankings. The school is located in the southwest corner of the main campus of the University of California,Davis. The current dean of veterinary medicine is Dr. Mark Stetter.
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 Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California teaches and trains physicians,biomedical scientists and other healthcare professionals,conducts medical research,and treats patients. Founded in 1885,it is the second oldest medical school in California after the UCSF School of Medicine.
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 University of California,San Diego School of Medicine is the graduate medical school of the University of California,San Diego,a public land-grant research university in La Jolla,California. 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.
The San Diego State University College of Health and Human Services is a college at San Diego State University (SDSU) that offers students academic study,field placement,clinical experiences,and research opportunities. The college offers professional education in the health and human service disciplines. The college consists of the following group of professional schools,and departments:the School of Speech,Language,and Hearing Sciences,the School of Nursing,the School of Social Work,the Department of Gerontology,and the Graduate School of Public Health.
Jeanne Ferrante is an American computer scientist active in the field of compiler technology. As a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California,San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering,Ferrante has made important contributions regarding optimization and parallelization.
Tejal Ashwin Desai is Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering at Brown University. Prior to joining Brown,she was the Deborah Cowan Endowed Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at University of California,San Francisco,Director of the Health Innovations via Engineering Initiative (HIVE),and head of the Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory. She was formerly an associate professor at Boston University (2002–06) and an assistant professor at University of Illinois at Chicago (1998–2001). She is a researcher in the area of therapeutic micro and nanotechnology and has authored and edited at least one book on the subject and another on biomaterials.
Ashish Kumar Jha is an Indian-American general internist physician and academic who served as the White House COVID-19 response coordinator from 2022–2023. He has been Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health since 2020. 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.
Gary S. Firestein is an American rheumatologist,professor,and founding director of the Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute (ACTRI) at the University of California San Diego and Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences at University of California,San Diego.
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is an American epidemiologist and physician. She is the 17th Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the JAMA Network. She is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Lee Goldman,MD Endowed Professor of Medicine at University of California,San Francisco. She is a general internist and attending physician at San Francisco General Hospital.
JoAnn Trejo is an American pharmacologist,cell biologist,a professor,and also an assistant vice chancellor in the department of health sciences faculty affairs 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.
Cheryl Ann Marie Anderson is an American epidemiologist. Anderson is a professor at and founding Dean of the University of California San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science. Anderson's research focus is on nutrition and chronic disease prevention in under-served human populations.
Lucila Ohno-Machado is a biomedical engineer and Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics at the Yale University School of Medicine. She is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the National Academy of Medicine.
Anna V. Molofsky is an American psychiatrist and glial biologist. She is an associate professor in the department of psychiatry at UC San Francisco. Her lab currently studies the communication between astrocytes,microglia,and neurons to understand how these signals regulate synaptic development in health and disease.
Jennifer J. Manly is an American neuropsychologist. She is a Professor of Neuropsychology in Neurology at the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center and the Taub Institute for Research in Aging and Alzheimer's Disease at Columbia University. Manly studies how race,culture,socioeconomic status,and education influence the risk of cognitive decline in aging.
The Brown University School of Public Health is the public health school of Brown University,a private research university in Rhode Island. It is located along the Providence River,down the hill and about a quarter mile from Brown's central campus on College Hill. The School of Public Health grew out of the Department of Community Health at Brown's Alpert Medical School and was officially founded in 2013 as an independent school.
Diana Lynn Miglioretti is an American biostatistician specializing in the availability and effectiveness of breast cancer screening and in radiation hazards from medical imaging;she has also studied connections between Down syndrome and leukemia. She is Dean's Professor of Public Health Sciences and head of the biostatistics division in the UC Davis School of Medicine. She co-leads the U.S. Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium.
The Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science (HWSPH) is the University of California,San Diego's school of public and community health. The school currently offers programs leading to bachelors (B.Sc.),masters (MPH),doctoral (Ph.D.),and professional degrees. The school also offers a joint doctoral program in public health with San Diego State University.