Member of the Board of Directors of ADJ Diabetes Brasil, Barone represented the Brazilian civil society at the UN High Level Meeting on NCDs in 2018. He is a PHI Global Health Leaders Fellow, and Senior Technical Advisor in Brazil for the Medtronic Foundation, where he oversees HealthRise and HeartRescue Brazil programs. 

Since 1999, he has developed national and international projects on Health Research and Education, Empowerment and Leadership of (Im)patients, and Scientific Divulgation. Barone received his doctorate in Human Physiology from the University of Sao Paulo and holds graduate certificates in Diabetes Education and Communication.

Kara Bensley is an associate research scientist with the Alcohol Research Group and a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley, focusing on the racial, ethnic and rural disparities in the receipt of alcohol-related care and experience of alcohol related harms alcohol use in vulnerable populations. Bensley received her PhD (Health Services) from University of Washington, MSc (Medical Anthropology) from University College London, and BS from Michigan State University.

Julia Caplan is the Program Director for the California Health in All Policies Task Force, which brings together over twenty state agencies, departments, and offices to build collaborative partnerships and incorporate health, equity, and environmental sustainability considerations into decision-making and government operations across policy areas as diverse as transportation, land use, education, agriculture, and social services. Ms. Caplan has twenty years’ experience in community building, social change, management, and public policy leadership, and holds masters’ degrees in public policy and public health from the University of California, Berkeley.

Cheryl J. Cherpitel is a senior scientist at PHI’s Alcohol Research Group, adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, BC and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Alcohol Epidemiology and Injury.  Her research includes the epidemiology of alcohol and injury in the emergency room (ER) and general populations, and SBIRT. She developed the Rapid Alcohol Problems Screen (RAPS4), and development of the on-going International Collaborative Alcohol and Injury Study which now includes over 100 ER sites in more than 30 countries, all using the same protocols and instrumentation which she designed.   

Godsted has over 20 years of successful experience managing human, financial, and material resources. As Deputy Director for the USAID Global Fellows Health Program II, Godsted applies his expertise in solving human resource problems and supporting individual performance to lead program efforts in Recruitment, Performance Management, and Professional and Career Development.

He also has extensive experience recruiting international development professionals, including his recent role as an Executive Director at the International Rescue Committee, where he led a multicultural staff of 40. Godsted’s previous roles also include AMIDEAST’s Country Director in Egypt and Peace Corps Volunteer in Yemen.

Tom Greenfield also directs ARG's National Alcohol Research Center, which is sponsored by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). Greenfield is a core faculty member of the clinical services research training program at the University of California at San Francisco's Department of Psychiatry. His research interests include the epidemiology of alcohol use and problems, alcohol policy studies, consumer satisfaction, national alcohol surveys and consumption measurement, drinking patterns and mortality, and services research. He oversees the ARG Center's National Alcohol Surveys, conducted every five years.

Katherine Karriker-Jaffe, PhD, is a scientist at PHI's Alcohol Research Group. She examines how community and cultural determinants contribute to racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in alcohol and drug use and consequences. More broadly, Karriker-Jaffe's work focuses on understanding the role of neighborhood, family and individual psychosocial factors on the development of health risk behaviors. Karriker-Jaffe completed her doctorate in health behavior and health education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She holds a Master of Science in communication from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science in psychology from the University of Oklahoma. She is a member of Delta Omega, the public health honor society.

Joel Ervice is the associate director of Regional Asthma Management and Prevention (RAMP), which works to reduce the burden of asthma through clinical management and environmental protection. Since 2003, he has helped lead RAMP from its regional focus to a nationally recognized resource. In partnership with RAMP's director, Joel manages organizational development, financial sustainability and communications activities. In 2007, RAMP was designated a Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Disparities by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Joel graduated cum laude from Whitman College and as a member of the national Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.

Since joining ARG in 2001, Kerr has pursued research in the areas of alcohol policy; the methodology of alcohol use pattern measurement; the decomposition of trends in U.S. alcohol consumption with a focus on age, period and cohort modeling; and the relationship between alcohol use patterns and health and mortality outcomes. His research utilizes both individual-level data from surveys and aggregate-level data from sales and mortality statistics. From 1997 to 2001, Kerr served as the project director of the Collaborative Alcohol-Related Longitudinal Project in the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Kerr received his PhD in economics from the University of California at Davis in 1997.

Pamela Mejia leads qualitative and quantitative analyses of how the media portrays public health and social justice issues, including sexual and family violence, teen dating violence, childhood trauma, community violence prevention, and more. She holds a bachelor's degree in human nutrition from Washington State University, as well as master's degrees in biochemistry and public health from the University of California at Berkeley.

Carmen R. Nevarez is vice president of external relations and preventive medicine at Public Health Institute. She also directs Dialogue4Health (D4H) and Center for Health Leadership and Practice (CHLP).  Since assuming CHLP’s leadership in 2011, Nevarez has been working to advance health by increasing the capacity of leaders to transcend boundaries, work collaboratively, and transform communities through innovative initiatives and partnerships. With over 39 years of experience as a physician, policy advisor, and nonprofit executive, Nevarez combines the scientific and ethical values she learned as a physician with an enduring conviction that all people have a right to good health.

Deidre Patterson works on diverse topics including economic conditions and alcohol problems and alcohol-related problem and consumption measurement. Other research interests include ethnic variation in drinking behavior, disparities in alcohol behaviors and treatment, as well as cultural and community effects on alcohol drinking patterns. Prior to joining ARG, Patterson worked at the Cancer Prevention Institute (formerly Northern California Cancer Center) supporting research on life exposures, pubertal development, and cancer risk in adulthood and at Cancer Care in New York, working as a research assistant on studies looking at side effects of cancer treatment, as well as social networks and support systems for patients. She received her undergraduate degrees in psychology from Brooklyn College (CUNY) and her MPH in Community Health from Hunter College (CUNY).

Mary A. Pittman, DrPH, is the chief executive officer and president of the Public Health Institute, a US and global non-profit public health organization. A nationally recognized leader in improving community health, addressing health inequities among vulnerable people and promoting quality of care, Pittman assumed the reins at PHI in 2008, becoming the organization's second president and CEO since its founding in 1964. Her experience in public health and healthcare settings has made her a national leader and adviser in population health, building healthier and more equitable communities and health systems and promoting prevention and quality of care. She is a member of the HHS Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion & Disease Prevention Objectives for 2030. Before joining PHI, Pittman headed the Health Research and Educational Trust, a Chicago-based affiliate of the American Hospital Association, from 1993 to 2007. Previously, she was president and CEO of the California Association of Public Hospitals and a director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Pittman has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals and two books.

Katherine Schaff, DrPH, Health Equity Coordinator, joined Berkeley Media Studies Group to help build the organizational and communications capacity of local health departments, government agencies, and community-based organizations working towards racial and health equity. Prior to joining the BMSG team, she spent 11 years at the Alameda County Public Health Department working towards racial, social, and health equity through policy change, community partnerships, and building institutional and staff capacity within the health department and the county. Before moving to the Bay area, Katherine supported local health departments through her position at the National Association of County and City Health Officials in Washington, DC. She received her BA in Sociology and International Studies from the University of Denver and her Masters of Public Health and Doctor of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley. Her doctoral research focused on how local health departments addressed and communicated about the foreclosure crisis as a driver of health inequities.

In her role as senior advisor on chronic disease, Lynn Silver works to 1) prevent the occurrence of noncommunicable disease through promoting policy and environmental changes to create healthier food environments, reduce tobacco and harmful alcohol use, increase physical activity, and reduce harmful use of marijuana products, 2) improve care for key noncommunicable diseases, and 3) evaluate of the effectiveness of NCD policies. Previously, Silver served as health officer in Sonoma County, assistant health commissioner in New York City and as a professor of public health in Brazil for 15 years. In New York City's Department of Health, she led the implementation of forward-thinking strategies to promote population health, including eliminating use of artery-hardening trans-fats in food establishments—the first such initiative in the nation—and requiring calorie labeling at fast-food restaurants. Silver received her MD and MPH degrees and pediatric training at the Johns Hopkins University.

Laura Styles, MPH, is the program manager and health educator for the Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program. FACE tracks and investigates workplace fatalities and offers recommendations on how to prevent similar incidents. A very important part of her job is to encourage and provide a platform for workers to tell their own stories—these digital stories highlight workplace hazards and offer life-saving lessons.

Christina Tam is an associate scientist at the Alcohol Research Group. She focuses on the racial and ethnic disparities in adolescent risk & well-being, immigrant family adaptation in neighborhoods, and translational research with underserved ethnic groups. Christina’s research focuses on the socioecological context of Asian Pacific Islander immigrant adaptation as it relates to youth behavioral health and substance use; and neighborhood mechanisms associated with alcohol use and health disparities among racial/ethnic minority groups and their families.

Pamela Trangenstein is an Associate Scientist at ARG. Her research interests are alcohol-related harms to others (i.e., how drinkers’ drinking impacts others), alcohol policy, and health disparities. She is currently investigating environmental-level predictors of alcohol-related harms to others under the mentorship of Kate Karriker-Jaffe. Trangenstein received her MPH and PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and her BA from Washington University in St. Louis.