Director, Center of Occupational and Environmental Health
Caris Harris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco and in the School of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley. She is also the Director of the UCSF/UCB Ergonomics Research & Graduate Training Program and the Director of the Center of Occupational and Environmental Health.
Carisa Harris, PhD, CPE received her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley and teaches a variety of classes...
Director, Northern California Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Dr. Balmes received his M.D. degree from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1976. After internal medicine training at Mount Sinai and pulmonary subspecialty, occupational medicine, and research training at Yale, he joined the faculty of USC in 1982. Four years later, he joined the faculty at UCSF and is currently Professor and Division Chief of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). He joined the faculty at the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley in 2002. His major academic activities include his research laboratory, several collaborative...
Associate Director, Center for the Built Environment
Gail Brager, Ph.D., has been a Professor in the Building Science & Sustainability area of the Department since 1984, and is also an Affiliate Faculty member of the Energy and Resources Group. Prof. Brager serves as the Director of the Center for Environmental Design Research, and Associate Director of the Center for the Built Environment, a research collaboration between the University and over 40 industry partners focused on improving the energy performance and environmental quality in buildings, with a focus on the workplace. This collaboration is important for making connections...
Chair, UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education
Ken Jacobs is the chair of the University of California, Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education, where he has been a labor specialist since 2002. His areas of focus include low-wage work, labor standards policies, sectoral wage setting, and health care coverage. Recent research includes analyses of California Proposition 22 and drivers’ earnings, worker misclassification, and the effect unions on wages and benefits; prospective studies of proposed city and state minimum wage laws; the relationship between wages, turnover, security, and safety at U.S. airports; the economic...
Emeritus Professor of Psychology, San Francisco State University
Dr. Mosier is an Emeritus Professor of Psychology from San Francisco State University and the Founder and Principal Scientist of TeamScape LLC, a company founded to conduct research on teams in work environments. She is the President of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), the federation of ergonomics and human factors societies around the world. The mission of the IEA is to elaborate and advance ergonomics science and practice, and to expand its scope of application and contribution to society to improve the quality of life, working closely with its constituent societies and...
Associate Director, Center for Environmental Design Research
Stefano Schiavon, PhD, is Associate Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley and Associate Director of CEDR. Stefano’s research is focused on finding ways to reduce energy consumption in buildings while improving occupant health, well-being and productivity. Stefano has researched personal comfort models and systems, building occupant satisfaction, underfloor air distribution (UFAD), radiant systems, building energy simulation, air movement, LEED rating system, thermal comfort and statistical modeling. He has experience in laboratory measurements, post-occupancy evaluation, and building...
Dr. Peter Schnall is the Director of the Healthy Work Campaign, as well as the Founder and Director of the Center for Social Epidemiology (founded 1988). A physician/epidemiologist, Peter has studied the impact of working conditions on the development of hypertension, obesity and burnout among workers for almost 40 years, as well promoting increasing awareness among students, colleagues and the public of the important role psychosocial work stressors play in the development of chronic mental and physical illnesses. Dr. Schnall leads an academic interdisciplinary research team located in...
Founding Director, Center for Healthcare Organizational and Innovation Research
Stephen M. Shortell is a Professor Emeritus of the Graduate School and Dean Emeritus at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health where he has held the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professorship in Health Policy and Management He received his PhD in the Behavioral Sciences from the University of Chicago in 1972 and has also taught and conducted research at the University of Washington and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
During the course of his career he has served as Principal Investigator on numerous research grants including serving as PI on the...
Clinical Professor Emeritus, Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology Division, UC Berkeley
John Swartzberg, MD, is a clinical professor emeritus at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health, chairs the editorial board of the School of Public Health’s Health & Wellness Publications. He is a past director of the UC Berkeley–UCSF Joint Medical Program. He is past-President of UC Berkeley’s Emeriti Association.
Swartzberg is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases. Before joining UC Berkeley’s faculty part time since 1980 and full time since 2001, he spent 30 years in clinical practice. He is also the hospital epidemiologist and chair of the infection...