Rina Alcalay	Design of effective communication strategies to prevent depression among populations in transition, such as people who have changed cultures, who have been diagnosed with a chronic disease, or who are aging.
	Emeritus Professor, PhD 510-527-0551
	Diana Cassady	Primary prevention of chronic disease, diet and physical activity, social marketing, reducing disparities in health status, and environmental and policy strategies to promote health.
	Associate Professor, DrPH 530-754-5550 DaVinci 530-757-3263 TCEC
	Rosemary Cress	Cancer epidemiology, ovarian and colorectal cancer, quality of cancer care, and health disparities.
	Assistant Professor, DrPH 916-779-2610
	Kathryn DeRiemer	Infectious disease epidemiology, including outbreaks; global health; transmission of airborne pathogens; Mycobacterium tuberculosis
	Assistant Professor, PhD, MPH 530-754-5989
	David Ross Gibson	Epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS, community interventions, social epidemiology.
	Emeritus Professor, PhD
	Ellen B. Gold	Reproductive and cancer epidemiology, epidemiology of reproductive function and disorders — especially menopause, secondary amenorrhea, anovulation, abnormalities of ovarian function, and spontaneous abortion.
	Department Chair, Epidemiology Division Chief, Professor, PhD 530-752-2446
	Irva Hertz-Picciotto	Dr. Hertz-Picciotto is an environmental epidemiologist with over 150 scientific publications addressing effects of environmental exposures on pregnancy and child development. She conceived and directs the CHARGE Study, the first large, comprehensive population-based study of environmental factors in autism, and MARBLES (Markers of Autism Risk in Babies – Learning Early Signs), to search for early biologic markers that will predict autism. She is Director of the Northern California Collaborative Center for the National Children’s Study. Dr. Hertz-Picciotto has served as an Advisor to numerous federal and state agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Toxicology Program, and NIH Interagency Coordinating Committee on Autism Research. She chaired the Expert Panel on CDC’s Vaccine Safety Database for Studies of Autism and Thimerosal.
	Environmental and Occupational Health Division Chief, Professor, PhD 530-752-3025
	Calvin H. Hirsch	Geriatric health-care policy and the organization and delivery of health care to the frail elderly; clinical epidemiology; the use and role of functional assessment in clinical practice; Alzheimer's disease; how to teach geriatric medicine to medical students and residents.
	Professor of Clinical Medicine, MD 916-734-7004
	Philip H. Kass	Non-experimental inference, epidemiologic methodology and analysis epidemiology of environmental hazards of animals and humans, companion animal epidemiology.
	Professor, DVM, MPVM, PhD 530-752-8631
	J. Paul Leigh	Econometrics, Health and Labor Economics.
	Professor, PhD 530-754-8605 916-734-8542 CHSR/PC
	Stephen A. McCurdy	Epidemiology, occupational hazards for farm workers, occupational hazards for semiconductor workers, general occupational and environmental medicine, toxicology, pesticides, heavy metals.
	Professor, MD, MPH 530-752-8051
	Marc B. Schenker	Environmental and occupational risk factors for respiratory disease and lung cancer, occupational and other health issues of migrant populations, health hazards of agricultural exposures especially respiratory and pesticide risks, occupational reproductive hazards, health hazards in the semiconductor industry, international issues in occupational and environmental health.
	Professor, MD, MPH 530-752-5676
Staff
	Barbara Wickson
	Executive Assistant to Dr. Gold 530-754-9417

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