Monday 16 June 2025
Public Health
School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts
Asa Bradman is an expert in exposure assessment and epidemiology focusing on occupational and environmental exposures to pregnant women, children, and farmworkers living in agricultural communities. In 1998 he co-founded the Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health (CERCH) at UC Berkeley and in 2020 Bradman joined the faculty at UC Merced. Bradman leads exposure and epidemiologic studies examining pesticides, flame retardants, metals, emerging pollutants, VOCs, air quality and other contaminants. He participates in extensive community outreach and education and interfaces with other scientists, state and federal agencies, policy makers and industry. He is past member and Chair of the California Biomonitoring Scientific Guidance Panel (appointed by Governors Schwarzennegger in 2007, Brown in 2013), and in 2017 he was appointed to a five-year term on the USDA National Organic Standards Board. Early in his career, Bradman harvested grapefruits and apples for export, worked on a chicken farm, and was the produce manager for a small grocery store.
Public Health
School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts
My name is Professor Crawford and I am a passionate advocate for inclusive and effective educational practices. As an Assistant Teaching Professor of Public Health, I blend my expertise in memory and education to enhance teaching and learning experiences in higher education.
Public Health
School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts
Dr. Rivera-González’s goal is to study Latino health disparities and advance health equity through community-rooted work. Her research aims to disentangle how local and national health policies disproportionately impact Latino and immigrant communities across the United States (US). Born and raised in Puerto Rico, some of her work also centers around the archipelago’s health system, the impact of recent public health emergencies, and how its current political status as a US territory affects the implementation of health policies, access to quality care, and utilization of health services.
Public Health
School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts
I am an entomologist, an insect scientist. I work with insects of public health importance such as mosquitoes, and I research how to use beneficial insects to control pests. My research supports healthy agricultural communities.
Public Health
School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts
As an infodemiologist, Dr. Susana Ramírez applies communication science to advance public health goals. She is a nationally recognized expert on media, inequality, and health. Her research—published in Social Science & Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Health Communication, and other journals—has examined the development and effectiveness of culturally tailored messages for Latinas, centering an interrogation of “culture” and acculturation processes in message effectiveness studies. Her current work examines policy discourse and media advocacy strategies pertaining to population health and public policy.
