Dr. Aragón is Principal Investigator and Executive Director at the Center for Infectious Disease & Emergency Readiness. Before coming to the UC Berkeley School of Public Health Dr. Aragón worked for eight 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 is developer and maintainer of EpiTools.Net ( http://www.epitools.net ).

Courses/Trainings:

• Applied Epidemiology Using R
• Essential Field Epidemiology: Outbreak Investigations
• Essential Field Epidemiology: Train-The-Trainer Course
• Core Infectious Disease Emergency Readiness (CIDER) Lecture Series

Jeannie Balido is the Education and Training Program Manager for the UC Berkley Center for Infectious Disease & Emergency Readiness. Ms. Balido has over 15 years experience in the areas of conference/special events planning, project coordination, fundraising and strategic development, 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 CIDER, 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.

Emily received her Master of Public Health degree from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health Division of Infectious Diseases. Her interests include global health, infectious diseases, human rights, and disaster preparedness. She has worked with communities in diverse locations including Kenya, Zimbabwe, aboriginal Australia, and Native American reservations in northern California. Emily began working with the Center for Infectious Disease & Emergency Readiness as a Graduate Student Researcher of Disaster Epidemiology. She is now a Staff Research Associate working on the REDI-US Study.

Julia Dysart, BBA

Julia Dysart is the Administrative Assistant for the UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease & Emergency Readiness. She is a recent graduate of University of Hawaii, Manoa, where she majored in Marketing and Mangement.

Dr. Enanoria is Director, Epidemiology Preparedness and Informatics (EPI) Program at the Center for Infectious Disease & Emergency Readiness. He 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 research analyst in local and state agencies including the San Francisco Department of Public Health (Tuberculosis Control; Community Health Epidemiology and Disease Control) and the California Department of Public Health (Office of AIDS; Reproductive Epidemiology Section). He provides technical assistance to local and state partners in epidemiology, public health surveillance, and infectious disease emergency preparedness.

Courses/Trainings:

• Essential Field Epidemiology: Outbreak Investigations
• Essential Field Epidemiology: Train-The-Trainer Course
• Disaster Epidemiology: Research Methods and Applications (PH 257A)
• Relational Database Management Systems for Epidemiology

Lisa Goldberg is a research specialist for the UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease & Emergency Readiness. She is currently, the project coordinator for the Pandemic Influenza Vaccine Prioritization Project that is being undertaken by CIDER 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 CIDER 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.

Jennifer C. Hunter, MPH

Jennifer Hunter is a Staff Research Associate with the ROPE team at CIDER.  Jennifer received her MPH in Epidemiology and Environmental Health at Boston University School of Public Health. Before joining CIDER in June 2007, Jennifer worked with the San Francisco Department of Public Health in the Bioterrorism and Infectious Disease Emergencies Unit of the Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Section.  She has also worked as a Clinical Research Coordinator at Boston University and a research fellow at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.  Her interests include program design and evaluation related to the control and prevention of infectious diseases. 

Ana-Marie Jones is the Executive Director of CARD - Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters, a nonprofit located in Alameda County, California. Created by local community agencies after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, CARD trains and supports nonprofits and their special needs clients in disaster preparedness, response and recovery activities. In her tenure, she has re-written and redefined CARD's services and curriculum to be based on community building, economic empowerment and leadership development philosophies.

Before joining CARD in April 2000, for three years Ms. Jones worked for the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services Coastal Region on projects supporting community organizations and people with special needs. She was also the acting Executive Director of the Northern California Disaster Preparedness Network, a 5-year funding initiative dedicated to creating emergency preparedness and response resources for vulnerable and underserved communities. Ms. Jones has served on several emergency preparedness, and response planning programs and committees, including the Alameda County Bio-terrorism Planning Project, the Alameda County Operational Area Council, and the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) Working Group for Alameda County. She is Co-chair of the Nonprofit Roundtable for the Oakland Chamber of Commerce and is a strong supporter of the 2-1-1 initiative - serving on the 2-1-1 Advisory Group for Eden I&R, the information and referral agency of Alameda County. Most recently Ana-Marie Jones joined the Working Group on Citizen Engagement in Health Emergency Planning, an initiative of the UPMC Center for Biosecurity.

In November 2003 and in January 2005, at the request of the Japanese Central Government and Japanese research institutes, Ms. Jones toured Tokyo and Kobe sharing an alternative approach to disaster preparedness (no fear or threat-based messages) with government, emergency management, university and nonprofit leaders. In March 2005, she joined the faculty of UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease & Emergency Readiness as a guest lecturer.

Ana-Marie Jones is a passionate advocate for ending America's disaster victim cycle and building resilient communities, where even the most vulnerable members will survive, thrive and prosper in the face of disasters and emergencies.

Courses/Trainings:

• Disaster Preparedness for Special Needs and Vulnerable Populations

Harvey Kayman

Harvey Kayman received his early education in Bogalusa and New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated Cum Laude in Chemistry from Cornell University in 1964, the University of Chicago School of Medicine in 1968, the University of California – Berkeley in 1999 with an MPH, completed Pediatric Internship and Residency at Babies Hospital, Columbia University, in New York City in 1971, received certificates of achievement for two year-long courses at the Management Academy of Public Health in 2002 and the South East Public Health Leadership Institute in 2004 from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the Center of Disease Control and Prevention.

Currently, he is a Public Health Medical Officer III in the Emergency Planning and Preparedness Section of the Immunization Branch of the California Department of Health Services. Until November 2006, he was the Director of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau in the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC), a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina. His experience in public health positions include 14 years as Chief of Health Education in Kaiser Permanente, Fremont, California and six years as a Public Health Officer in South Carolina (SC DHEC).  He has been honored to be the public health representative to the South Carolina Medical Association Ethics Committee for six years.  In addition, he has had many years experience as a front line practicing pediatrician, first in the United States Army (Chief of Pediatrics at the US Army Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand) and then as a staff pediatrician at Kaiser Permanente for 25 years.

Jennifer Lachance, MSE, is a Graduate Student Researcher currently working on the REDI-US study. Previously, Jennifer focused on the identification of public health preparedness strategies for vulnerable populations in disaster situations. Jennifer is currently pursuing a DrPH at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. Prior to her enrollment at Berkeley, 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 is the Emergency Operations Specialist for UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease & Emergency Readiness. 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 CIDER 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/Trainings:

• Emergency Management Exercise Design and Evaluation

Lara Misegades is a Graduate Student Researcher working on the REDI-US study 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.

Donata Nilsen, MPH, DrPH Student

Donata Nilsen is a Graduate Student Researcher currently working on a Public Health Module for Community Emergency Response Teams.  Prior to this, Donata worked on several tuberculosis projects in conjunction with San Diego State University and as a community educator on bioterrorism and other emergencies for the Council of Community Clinics in San Diego, California. 

Prior to her public health track, she worked as a Quality Assurance manager for a biotechnology company in Tustin, CA producing radioisotope labeled monoclonal antibodies for non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and other cancers in various stages of clinical trials.  Donata received a BS in Biology from the University of California at Irvine, a BS in Microbiology with an emphasis in Medical Technology from California Polytechnic University, Pomona, and a MPH with an emphasis in Epidemiology from San Diego State University. 

Diana Pak is the Research Associate for the UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease & Emergency Readiness. 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 part of the ROPE Team.

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:

• Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases (PH 252B)

Dr. Reingold is Professor of Epidemiology and Head of the Division of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley (UCB). 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:

• Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases (PH 253B)
• Outbreak Investigations (PH 257)

Pending

Christine Siador is the Acting Associate Director for the UC Berkeley Center for Infectious Disease & Emergency Readiness. 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.

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/Trainings:

• Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Surveillance

Leslie Wallace is a Graduate Student Researcher working on the REDI-US study. She is a first-year Master of Public Health student focusing on Epidemiology/Biostatistics at the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining CIDER, Leslie worked for the YWCA of Olympia, Washington, where she ran programs that served low-income families and teen girls. She also worked in health promotion for the Claremont Colleges. Her interests include infectious disease epidemiology and disaster preparedness.