Advisors

Professor Kirk Smith , PhD

Kirk is the Brian and Jennifer Maxwell Endowed Chair at the School of Public Health and Director of the Health, Environment, and Development Graduate Program. Previously, Professor Smith was founder and head of the Energy Program of the East-West Center in Honolulu. He is also a Visiting Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center and holds an Honorary Professorship at Sichuan University. He sits on a number of journal editorial boards and has published 7 books and more than 220 scientific articles. For this work, he was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1997.

He has worked in developing countries on energy/environment issues since 1981 and has extensive experience related to energy, air pollution monitoring, co-benefits of energy projects for health and climate protection, health effects of indoor and outdoor pollution, and risk assessment worldwide.

Dr. Nap Hosang, MD, MBA, MPH

Nap is a Lecturer in the Maternal and Child Health Program at the School of Public Health, UC Berkeley. He is also Chair of the Interdisciplinary MPH Program and a faculty sponsor for the School's Health Environment and Development program and the International Health Specialty Area.

Before joining the Berkeley faculty in 1989, Dr. Hosang was on the medical faculty at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. He is a practicing obstetrician (Kaiser-Permanente) with special interests in perinatal outcomes, breastfeeding and uterine fibroids domestically, and the management of maternal and child health services in developing countries. His teaching emphasizes leadership development and management training in public health education.

Dr. Hosang is a founding member of the Bay Area International Health Interest Group, a UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC San Francisco, and Stanford collaborative that promotes educational activities for students with interests in Global Health. He also co-founded the Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development (CEIHD).

Professor Rufus Edwards, PhD

Rufus is Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Edwards' research focuses on air pollution in both the developing and developed world. His work in the developed world has focused on particulate (PM 2.5) and VOC personal exposures in seven European Urban Environments (Helsinki, Athens, Basel, Prague, Milan, Grenoble, Oxford) as part of the international EXPOLIS collaboration. In addition, Dr. Edwards is actively involved in the development of methods to reduce exposures of wildland firefighters in the U.S.

On the developing world level, his research interests focus on improvements in the health of communities exposed to high indoor air pollutant levels as a result of burning solid fuels. A major focus of these studies are the estimation of carbon offsets for carbon trading mechanisms and co-benefits that may be realized for health, climate and energy use through improvements in fuel use.

Professor Tami Bond, PhD

Tami is Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign. Dr. Bond's research addresses the aerosol chemistry, physics, and optics that govern the environmental impacts of particles from combustion. Her research includes laboratory studies of aerosol behavior, development of global emission inventories, and global simulations of aerosol transport and fate.

Prior to joining UIUC in Fall 2003, she was a Visiting Scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Washington. During 2001-2003, she held a NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship. Tami holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (University of Washington, 1993), and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (UC Berkeley, 1995), and an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering (University of Washington, 2000).

Professor Kalpana Balakrishnan, PhD

Dr. Kalpana Balakrishnan is a Professor and heads the Department of Environmental Health Engineering at Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, India. She has been a lead investigator in numerous collaborative environmental health research projects focusing mainly on exposure and health risk assessment for air pollutants in the ambient, indoor and occupational environment. She has served the IARC, WHO and The World Bank on multiple short–term technical assignments including being a member of the WHO working group on setting guidelines for Outdoor and Indoor Air Quality. She also directs post-graduate and doctoral training programs in environmental health at her institution.

Professor Rob Bailis, PhD

Rob is Assistant Professor at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.  He received his PhD in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley, his MS in Physics from Northwestern University) and his BS in Physics from Penn State University.

Lisa is Assistant Professor in the Family Health Care Nursing Department at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Her research addresses global environmental health with a focus on exposures to indoor air pollution and the impact on women (respiratory outcomes) and children (birth outcomes and childhood growth). While obtaining her PhD at UC Berkeley, Lisa worked on the Randomized Exposure Study of Pollution Indoors and Respiratory Effects (RESPIRE) and the follow-up cohort study CRECER (Chronic Respiratory Effects of Early Childhood Exposure to Respirable Particulate Matter) in rural Guatemala. She conducted technical capacity building trainings for Berkeley Air in South Africa.