Cristina Banks, PhD

Cristina Banks directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces at the University of California, Berkeley, where she leads an interdisciplinary team of scholars and practitioners in innovative research projects and in the distribution of state-of-the-art information for creating healthy workplaces. Dr. Banks is also Associate Director of the California Labor Laboratory, a NIOSH Total Worker Health Center of Excellence at University of California, San Francisco. Most recently, Dr. Banks founded a new Center of Excellence for Workplace Mental Health at the Haas School of Business and is a Senior Lecturer teaching courses in management, organizational behavior and leadership to graduate and undergraduate students since 1985 at the Haas School. She is a nationally recognized expert in management practices, human resource management, employment and labor law compliance, and worker health and well-being. Dr. Banks is an elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology. She earned her PhD in Industrial Psychology at the University of Minnesota in 1979 and her Bachelor’s in Psychology with Highest Distinction at the University of California, Berkeley in 1974.