Tomás Aragón, MD, DrPH

Dr. Aragón is Executive Director and medical epidemiologist at the UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness. Before coming to the UC Berkeley School of Public Health Dr. Aragón worked for seven years as director of Community Health Epidemiology and Disease Control at the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and as Deputy County Health Officer for the City and County of San Francisco. At SFDPH he directed communicable disease control and prevention, bioterrorism preparedness and response planning, and the epidemiologic and effectiveness research unit. Dr. Aragón's education and training include UC Berkeley (BA Molecular Biology, DrPH Epidemiology), Harvard Medical School (MD, MPH), and UC San Francisco (Internal Medicine, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and AIDS epidemiology fellowship). His curriculum vitae is available at http://www.medepi.net/aragon , and he contributes to EpiTools.Net ( http://www.epitools.net ).

Courses:

• Field Epidemiology Basics
• Essentials of Public Health Epidemiology
• Applied Epidemiology Using R (fall 2004)
• Core Infectious Disease Emergency Readiness - CIDER (spring 2005)
• Group Independent Study in Epidemiologic Analysis (spring 2005)

Jeannie Balido

Jeannie Balido is the Education and Training Program Manager. Ms. Balido has over 15 years experience in the areas of conference/special events planning, project coordination, fundraising and strategic development, project coordination, social marketing and public relations. She has worked on public health issues such as tobacco control, breast cancer, nutrition and obesity, access to health care for underserved communities, and domestic violence. Prior to coming to CIDP, she has worked at the Association of Bay Area Governments, The San Francisco Foundation, Asian American Health Forum, and Economic Opportunity Council of San Francisco. Ms. Balido received a BA in Psychology from UC Berkeley, and a Certificate of Completion in Sports & Special Event Marketing from UC Berkeley Extension.

Wayne Enanoria, PhD, MPH

Wayne Enanoria, PhD, MPH, received his PhD in Epidemiology and his MPH in Epidemiology/Biostatistics from the University of California at Berkeley. He has worked as an epidemiologist and analyst in local and state agencies such as the Division of Tuberculosis Control and Community Health Epidemiology and Disease Control (CHEDC) in the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the Office of AIDS and the Reproductive Epidemiology Section of the California Department of Health Services. He is Director of the Epidemiology, Preparedness, and Informatics (EPI) Program at the Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness (CIDP). He teaches courses in epidemiology, field investigations, survey design, and relational database management systems to public health professionals in local and state health departments. He continues to provide technical assistance to local and state partners in epidemiology, public health surveillance, and infectious disease preparedness.

Courses:

• Field Epidemiology Basics
• Designing and conducting public health surveys (spring 2005)
• Introduction to Relational Database Management Systems for epidemiologists
• Epi Info for epidemiologic investigation

Lisa Goldberg, MPP, MPH

Lisa Goldberg is a research specialist for the Centers for Infectious Disease Preparedness. She is currently, the project coordinator for the Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Prioritization Project that is being undertaken by CIDP and the California Department of Health Services (CDHS). Ms. Goldberg received two Masters degrees in public health and in public policy at UC Berkeley. She worked as a graduate student researcher at CIDP for two and a half years and completed her Master's thesis on prioritization for pandemic influenza vaccine. Prior to attending graduate school, she worked at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in the HIV/AIDS Bureau's Office of Research and Evaluation. Lisa's areas on interest include: infectious disease planning and preparedness, survey design, health policy analysis, statistics, applied epidemiology, and homeland security policy.

W. Gary Hlady, MD, MS

Dr. Hlady practiced clinical medicine for six years before beginning his career in public health 20 years ago as a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer assigned to the State of Alaska. He has spent half of his public health career working in South Asia, where he identified risk factors for neonatal tetanus and exposed serious problems with vaccine manufacturing in Bangladesh, and where he established and managed the National Polio Surveillance Project in India. In the domestic arena, Dr. Hlady served for five years as the Deputy State Epidemiologist for Florida, where he led the epidemiologic response to Hurricane Andrew, and most recently, he has served as a CDC Career Epidemiology Field Officer to improve public health preparedness, first with the State of Georgia and now with the Emergency Preparedness Office of the California Department of Health Services.

Tony Iton

Tony Iton, M.D., J.D., MPH is the Alameda County, California Health Officer. Most recently, Dr. Iton was the Director of Health & Social Services for the City of Stamford, Connecticut. Dr. Iton received his medical degree at Johns Hopkins Medical School and subsequently trained in internal medicine and preventive medicine at New York Hospital, Yale, and UC Berkeley and is board certified in both specialties. Dr. Iton has also received a law degree and a Master's of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley and is a member of the California Bar.

He has worked as an HIV disability rights attorney at the Berkeley Community Law Center, a health care policy analyst with Consumers Union West Coast Regional Office, and as a physician and advocate for the homeless at the San Francisco Public Health Department. His experience practicing both medicine and law independently has enabled him to blend both disciplines in the day-to-day practice of public health and in responding to recent public health emergencies such as SARS and anthrax. In Connecticut, he developed the local protocol for prophylaxing postal employees after exposure to anthrax spores at a postal distribution center and taught a course on the local public health response to Bioterrorism at the University of Connecticut.

Tony's primary interest is the health of disadvantaged populations and the contributions of race, class, wealth, education, geography, and employment to health status. He has asserted that the biggest single contributor to our country's vulnerability to bioterrorism is the lack of a universal system of health insurance for all Americans.

Âna-Marie Jones

Ana-Marie Jones is currently the Executive Director of CARD (Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters), located in Alameda County, California. CARD coordinates, trains and supports community service organizations in disaster preparedness, response and recovery activities. Before Joining CARD in April 2000, for three years Âna-Marie worked for the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services Coastal Region on projects supporting community organizations and people with special needs. Jones serves on several emergency preparedness/response planning programs and committees, including the Alameda County Bio-terrorism Planning Project, the Metropolitan Medical Response System (a terrorism response planning program for the City of Oakland), the Alameda County Operational Area Council, the San Leandro Disaster Council, the City of Oakland's Emergency Management Board, various emergency services associations, and the Statewide Emergency Volunteerism Advisory Group (SEVAG). She is an instructor with the California Specialized Training Institute (CSTI), where she teaches Planning for the Unthinkable - Everyone Survives, a course that explores the economic and social implications of our disaster preparedness choices. For many years, Âna-Marie was a leadership volunteer for the American Red Cross Bay Area and received the California Golden Bear Award.

Courses:

• PH 295: Disaster preparedness for special populations (spring 2005)

Jennifer Lachance, MSE

Jennifer Lachance, MSE, is a Graduate Student Researcher working to identify public health preparedness strategies for vulnerable populations in disaster situations. This is a continuation of the DrPH-in-Action project entitled, "Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina: How local health departments can prepare to meet the needs of vulnerable populations in emergencies." Jennifer is currently pursuing a DrPH at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Previously, Jennifer worked as a strategy and technology consultant for various public health agencies, focusing primarily on disaster preparedness and electronic disease surveillance systems. Jennifer earned her Master of Science in Engineering and Bachelor of Science in May 2000 from the Johns Hopkins University, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, with a concentration in Public Health.

Cindy Lambdin, RN, MS

Cindy Lambdin, RN, MS is the Emergency Operations Specialist for UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness. Cindy is a graduate of UC San Francisco and received her Master's as an Emergency/Trauma Clinical Nurse Specialist with a Minor in Education. She has worked in the acute hospital setting for twenty-one years. Cindy brings thirteen years of Emergency Management and Education experience to the CIDP team. Her skills include knowledge and expertise of the Incident Command System, Exercise design, execution, and evaluation, and Emergency Management Plan development. Cindy has worked collaboratively with city, county and state agencies and organizations to promote disaster preparedness. She serves as a member of the Alameda County Bioterrorism Steering Committee, Alameda County Bioterrorism Task Force, and Alameda County Emergency Management Association.

Courses:

• PH 295: Disaster preparedness for special populations (spring 2005)

Lauren Lau, BA

Lauren Lau is Administrative Assistant for the UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness. Lauren graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Dec 2003 after having arduously double-majored in Astrophysics and Cognitive Science, with a minor in Music. After a brief respite from academia, she has returned to school part-time to pursue graduate studies. Notwithstanding and regardless, Lauren enjoys spoiling her cat, who is very cute. Mrow. Aside from that, Lauren is boring. Horribly boring.

Diana Pak

Diana Pak is the Assistant Researcher for the UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness. She is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, where she majored in Political Economy of Industrial Societies with a concentration in Urban Development and Planning. Having lived in several countries, and having had experience working as a three-language translator/interpreter, Diana contributes her knowledge of cultural issues to the context of disaster preparedness planning in the diverse Bay Area. She is currently working in cooperation with the Executive Director of CARD, Ana-Marie Jones, on a manual for Vulnerable Populations. Diana is also part of the Pandemic Influenza team at CIDP.

Michael Petrie

Michael Petrie is the Administrator of the Emergency Medical Services and Emergency Operations Section of the City and County of San Francisco Department of Public Health. The EMS and Emergency Operations Section is responsible for leading, planning, regulating and assuring quality in the San Francisco EMS System, which includes the San Francisco Fire Department, five ambulance providers, and eleven hospitals. The EMS and Emergency Operations Section also is responsible for enhancing San Francisco's capability to respond to disasters and terrorist incidents through the Department of Public Health's disaster and terrorism preparedness program.

Mr. Petrie also serves as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Center for Homeland Defense and Security, at the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. In this capacity, Michael instructs in Strategic Planning and Budgeting for Homeland Security courses, researches homeland security and defense issues, and assists in enhancement of the center.

Michael was previously employed by a central California Healthcare District for fourteen years, serving in various posts including field paramedic, paramedic director, assistant hospital administrator, and ending his tenure as the district's Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Petrie has served on numerous municipal, regional, and statewide boards and committees, including serving the City of Patterson as an elected Councilperson and the Mayor Pro Tem for eight years.

Mr. Petrie has a Bachelor of Arts Degree cum laude from Saint Mary's College of California in Management, a MBA (Master of Business Administration) from the University of Phoenix, and a Masters Degree in Homeland Security and Defense from the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey.

Travis Porco, PhD, MPH

Dr. Travis Porco is a mathematical epidemiologist with the San Francisco Department of Public Health's Epidemiology and Effectiveness Research Unit. His research interests have included the infectivity of HIV in the era of HAART, evolution of virulence, HIV superinfection, transmission dynamics of tuberculosis, drug resistance in HSV-2, eradication of trachoma, and the enzootiology of Lyme disease. Dr. Porco's education and training include the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida (BS Physics), UC Berkeley (PhD Biophysics, MPH Biostatistics), and UC San Francisco (postdoctoral fellowship). He maintains a mathematical epidemiology web site at http://www.mathepi.com.

Courses:

• PH 295: Introductory Computational Infectious Disease Epidemiology (fall 2004)
• PH 295: Advanced Computational Infectious Disease Epidemiology (spring 2005)

Arthur Reingold, MD

Dr. Reingold is Professor of Epidemiology and Head of the Division of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and Principal Investigator of the UCB Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness. He holds concurrent appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He has devoted the past 20-plus years to the study and prevention of infectious diseases in the United States and in various countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, initially at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for eight years and at UCB since 1987. Current activities include directing the National Institutes of Health-funded UCB/UCSF Fogarty International AIDS Training Program, now in its fourteenth year, and co-directing the CDC-funded California Emerging Infections Program, now in its eighth year. Dr. Reingold's current research interests include prevention of transmission of HIV in developing countries; the intersection of the HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis epidemics; malaria in Uganda; emerging and re-emerging infections in the U.S. and globally; sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus; vaccine-preventable diseases; and respiratory infections in childhood.

Courses:

• PH 39E: Freshman/Sophomore seminar (spring 2005)
• PH 253B: Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases (spring 2005)
• PH 257: Outbreak Investigation (spring 2005)

Ray de la Rosa, BS

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Christine Siador, MPH

Christine Siador is the Acting Associate Director for the UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness. She received her M.P.H. in biomedical sciences/infectious disease from U.C. Berkeley. Christine has over 15 years of experience managing national, statewide and local public health programs. In addition to her administrative experience, Christine also brings extensive experience to the Center in the areas of social marketing, health education, coalition/partnerhsip developmnet, conference and special events planning and coordination.

Michael Samuel, DrPH

Dr. Samuel is the Chief of the Epidemiology and Surveillance Section of the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Control Branch, California Department of Health Services. He is responsible for oversight of the systems for collection, analysis, and dissemination of data on STDs in California. Previously he worked as a Medical Epidemiologist for the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) component of the California Emerging Infections Program where he directed foodborne disease outbreak investigations and collaborated on national case-control studies and surveillance projects. Prior to that, Dr. Samuel was in charge of HIV/AIDS Epidemiology for the State of New Mexico In New Mexico, he was also part of the infectious disease epidemiology team, and worked on zoonotic diseases, including hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, plague, and rabies. He has assisted with international HIV/AIDS, biostatics, and related computer application trainings in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua and El Salvador and was in charge of the Swiss Federal AIDS Epidemiology Unit in Switzerland. Dr. Samuel's education includes B.S., M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, with emphasis on biostatistics and epidemiologic methods. His doctoral work was with Professor Warren Winkelstein on sexual transmission of HIV in the San Francisco Men's Health Study.

Courses:

• PH 298: Epidemiologic methods for studying infectious diseases (spring 2005)

Ana María Vaughan, MPH

Ana María Vaughan is a staff research associate working under the Emergency Operations Specialist, Cindy Lambdin, RN, MS at UC Berkeley's Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness. Ana María is a graduate of UC Berkeley's School of Public Health where she received her MPH in Infectious Diseases, with a specialty in International Health. Spanning the scientific and business disciplines, previous professional ventures bring a diverse repertoire of experiences to her pursuit of a career in public health. Coupled with a military upbringing, working at CIDP has expanded her knowledge of disaster preparedness and the Incident Command System. Resolving to incorporate her public health background within a clinical context, Ana María will begin her training at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine in the fall of 2006.

Emily Cotter, MPH

Emily recently completed her Master of Public Health degree at UC Berkeley, focusing in infectious disease. She is interested in international health, having spent time working with an aboriginal community in Australia and a non-governmental organization in Harare, Zimbabwe. An alumnae of Tulane University, she adores New Orleans and Louisiana. The disaster that unfolded after hurricane Katrina has shifted her public health interests toward community disaster preparedness, something she would ideally love to pursue both domestically and internationally.

Lara Misegades, MS

Lara Misegades is a Graduate Student Researcher at the UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness and is currently pursuing her PhD in Epidemiology at UC Berkeley. Prior to returning to graduate school, Lara was Director of Infectious Disease Policy at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) in Washington D.C., where she helped coordinate the organization's policy responses to emerging infectious disease issues such as pandemic influenza and SARS. Lara received her MS in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, and has worked at the Minnesota and Massachusetts Departments of Health, and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the West Indies.