UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Gloria Mark Professor Department of Informatics University of California, Irvine Research Interests Human-computer interaction; digital technology in society https://www.ics.uci.edu/~gmark/Home_page/ Welcome.html Dr. Gloria Mark is a Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. Her research area is human-computer interaction (HCI), studying how technology has impacted individuals, groups, and society. She is particularly interested in studying how people interact with information technology in their everyday life: how digital media use affects multi-tasking, attention, mood, and above all, stress. She is the author of Multitasking in the Digital Age, and in 2017, was inducted into the Special Interest Group in Computer– Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery, which recognizes leaders in the field of HCI. 45
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Adam Millard-Ball Associate Professor Department of Urban Planning University of California, Los Angeles Research Interests Transportation; climate change; local environments; urban planning and environmental economics https://luskin.ucla.edu/urban-planning Adam Millard-Ball is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research bridges urban planning and environmental economics, and addresses some of the key challenges in transportation, energy, and climate change policy. His current work examines global patterns of urban sprawl and car ownership, the effectiveness of local climate planning efforts, and the design of carbon trading programs. He also has broad interests in transportation planning and policy, particularly parking management programs to reduce vehicle travel and emissions. He is an editor for the book, Bending the Curve. Climate Change Solutions (California Digital Library, 2019). 46
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Dan Miller Staff Scientist Joint Center for Aritifical Photosynthesis Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Research Interests Water purification; polymeric membranes; renewable energy https://commons.lbl.gov/display/csd/Daniel+Miller Dan Miller is a staff scientist in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research interest is in understanding the properties of water purification membranes governing their ability to efficiently separate water from salt, organics, and other contaminants. Dr. Miller is also interested in developing membranes for renewable energy applications, such as solar-driven conversion of carbon dioxide into liquid transportation fuels and chemical feedstocks. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, where he developed techniques to reduce pore-clogging and improve the operational efficiency of water purification membranes. 47
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Paavo Monkkonen Vice Chair and Associate Professor Department of Urban Planning University of California, Los Angeles Research Interests Housing; international development; Latin America; spatial analysis; urban economics; urban public finance https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/paavo-monkkonen Paavo Monkkonen is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles Luskin School of Public Affairs, Director of the Latin American Cities Initiative, the Coordinator of the Regional and International Development Concentration, and a Faculty Cluster Leader for the Global Public Affairs Initiative. Professor Monkkonen researches and writes on the ways policies and markets shape urbanization and social segregation in cities around the world. His scholarship ranges from studies of large-scale national housing finance programs to local land use regulations and property rights. His past and ongoing research on socioeconomic segregation and land markets spans several countries, including Argentina, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, and the United States. Professor Monkkonen consults on national housing and urban policy in Mexico, where he has various long-term research projects. Dr. Monkkonen was the winner of the University of California Center Sacramento Bacon Public Lectureship and White Paper Award in 2016. 48
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Max Moritz UC Cooperative Extension Wildfire Specialist Adjunct Professor Bren School of Environmental Science & Management University of California, Santa Barbara Research Interests Fire Ecology and Management; Disturbance Regimes; Spatial Analysis; Fire Policy; Climate Change Adaptation https://moritzfirelab.org/ Professor Max Moritz has a Ph.D. in biogeography from the University of California, Santa Barbara and has been a statewide wildfire specialist within the University of California Cooperative Extension for since 2004. Much of his research focuses on understanding the dynamics of fire regimes at relatively broad scales and applying this information to planning and managing fire-prone landscapes. His recent interests include climate change adaptation, the role of land development on past and future fire patterns, and how urban planning and design can be improved to reduce human losses. 49
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Aimee Moulin Associate Professor Department of Emergency Medicine University of California Davis Health Research Interests Behavioral health emergencies; health policy https://health.ucdavis.edu/team/search/1446/ aimee-moulin---emergency-medicine-sacramento Dr. Aimee Moulin is an Associate Professor at the University of California Davis Health. She has a dual appointment in the Department of Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry. Dr. Moulin is the Behavioral Health Director for the Emergency Department at the University of California, Davis. She completed a fellowship in Quality Safety and Comparative Effectiveness research through the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, focusing on acute care for patients with behavioral health disorders. Currently, Dr. Moulin is Co-Investigator of the California Bridge Project to develop Emergency Departments as primary access points for addiction treatment. 50
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Jann Murray-García Associate Clinical Professor Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing University of California Davis Health Research Interests Cultural Humility, racial identity development, schooling and race, and California’s K-12 Ethnic Studies requirement https://health.ucdavis.edu/nursing/ourteam/ faculty/Murray-Garcia_bio.html Dr. Murray-García is a pediatrician and Associate Health Sciences Clinical Professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at the University of California, Davis. With Dr. Melanie Tervalon, M.D., M.P.H., she co-founded the concept known as cultural humility, which they distinguish from cultural competence in their original 1998 article. Dr. Murray-García’s research interests include eliminating health disparities and the impact of racism, racial stratification in schooling, and racial identity development in the health and health-related decisions of youth. At the University of California Davis Health, Dr. Murray-García is the Director of Social Justice and Immersive Learning in the Office of Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. She founded the University of California Davis Summer Institute on Race and Health for medical students, and the Interprofessional Central Valley Road Trip for faculty, students, staff, administrators, and community members. Her publications on race, health care, and child development have appeared in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Pediatrics, Medical Care, Academic Medicine, and Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved. 51
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog David Neumark Distinguished Professor Department of Economics University of California, Irvine Research Interests Anti-poverty policies; income; poverty; public assistance receipt; economic self-sufficiency http://www.economics.uci.edu/~dneumark/ David Neumark is a Distinguished Professor of Economics and Co- Director of the Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy at the University of California, Irvine. He has made significant research contributions in numerous areas of labor economics that intersect with important public policy issues. Professor Neumark’s research on labor market discrimination inspired new methods of measuring discrimination. His current research agenda, as part of his activities as Director of Economic Self-Sufficiency Policy Research Institute (ESSPRI), concerns the long-run effects of alternative anti-poverty policies on earnings, income, poverty, and public assistance receipt (broadly defined, “economic self-sufficiency”). A good deal of this work focuses on the effectiveness of policies directed at disadvantaged neighborhoods, such as enterprise zones and other tax credit programs. 52
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Oladele Ogunseitan Professor and Chair Department of Population Health and Disease Prevention University of California, Irvine Research Interests Environmental health science; applied microbiology https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/ogunseitan/ Oladele (Dele) Ogunseitan holds the Presidential Chair at the University of California, Irvine, where he is a Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention. Dr. Ogunseitan’s research interests are at the nexus of industrial development, environmental quality, and human health. He is currently the Director of Research Education and Workforce Development for the NIH-funded Institute for Clinical and Translational Science and directs education initiative for the system- wide University of California Global Health Institute. He coordinates training and empowerment for USAID’s One Health Workforce’s Next Generation project. As a Jefferson Science Fellow at the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, he served as a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of State’s Office of International Health and Biodefense. In 2018, he received a meritorious honor award for exceptional teamwork and contributions to the achievement of U.S. goals at the third United Nations Environment Assembly. Dr. Ogunseitan also serves as the systemwide Academic Senate Representative on the University of California Center Sacramento Advisory Board. 53
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Valerie Olson Associate Professor Department of Anthropology School of Social Sciences University of California Irvine Research Interests sociocultural processes; environmental systems, technologies, and extremes https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/valerieolson/ Professor Valerie Olson is an anthropologist who specializes in studying how people govern environments, especially transboundary zones like outer space, marine areas, and watersheds. Her current research on the sociocultural dimensions of integrated watershed planning in Southern California. Her recent book, Into the Extreme: US Environmental Systems and Politics (2019), is an ethnography of government-sponsored human spaceflight. Professor Olson serves on University of California, Irvine interdisciplinary research teams and campus initiatives, such as UCI-NATURE, Water University of California Irvine, the Salton Sea Initiative, the University of California Irvine OCEANS Initiative, and the University of California Irvine Community Resilience program. 54
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Daniele Piomelli Professor Anatomy & Neurobiology School of Medicine University of California, Irvine Research Interests Cannabinoids; cannabis; medical & legal challenges https://cnlm.uci.edu/piomelli/ Dr. Daniele Piomelli is a Distinguished Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Biological Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. Daniele received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and did his post-doctoral training at the Rockefeller University. After working at the INSERM in Paris and at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, Daniele joined the University of California, Irvine, where he is now Louise Turner Arnold Chair in Neurosciences. Dr. Piomelli is an author of more than 400 peer-reviewed articles in journals including Nature, Science, Nature Medicine, PNAS and Nature Neuroscience, three full-length books, and 34 patents. He co-founded the Department of Drug Discovery & Development at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, which he directed from 2007 to 2016. He is director of the University of California Irvine’s Center for the Study of Cannabis and Editor-in-Chief of Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, the primary peer-reviewed journal entirely dedicated to the study of cannabis, its derivatives, and their endogenous counterparts in the human body. 55
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Mica Pollock Professor and Director Department of Education Studies Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence University of California, San Diego Research Interests Education policy; educational equity; educational equality; community oriented-intervention http://eds.ucsd.edu/discover/people/faculty/ pollock.html Mica Pollock is a Professor of Education Studies and Director of the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE) at the University of California, San Diego. Her newest book is Schooltalk: Rethinking What We Say About and To Students Every Day (The New Press). Professor Pollock’s work explores educators’ role in efforts to achieve antiracism and equality. She also pinpoints the importance of language in educators’ work. In projects, based in schools, districts, cities, universities, community organizations, and the government, Professor Pollock explored how people in diverse education communities talk as they try to collaborate in student support. Her work at CREATE explores how networks of conversation partners can leverage a university to create K-20 opportunities to learn. Professor Pollock’s newest effort is #USvsHate, an educator-and youth-led anti-hate messaging project she designed with partners across San Diego. In the 2019- 2020 school year, #USvsHate is scaling nationally with the Teaching Tolerance program at the Southern Poverty Law Center. . 56
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Ninez Ponce Professor Health Policy and Management University of California, Davis Research Interests Health economics and health policy; multicultural survey research; community-based participatory research https://ph.ucla.edu/faculty/ponce Ninez A. Ponce, MPP, Ph.D., is a Professor in the University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health’s Department of Health Policy and Management and was Associate Director of the University of California Los Angeles’s Asian American Studies Center (2011- 2013). She devised the rationale and implementation of Asian ethnic oversamples and the cultural and linguistic adaptation of the survey. Dr. Ponce is also the principal investigator of the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), the largest state health survey in the United States, where she led the first CHIS efforts on the measurement of race/ethnicity, acculturation, physician-patient communication, and discrimination. She teaches courses in applied research methods, health policy, and health economics. Her research contributes to eliminating racial/ethnic and social disparities in health and health care in three areas: multicultural survey research, social penalties in health and health access, and population-based cancer prevention and control studies. Dr. Ponce also serves on the UCCS Faculty Council. Dr. Ninez Ponce also represents the University of California, Davis on the University of California Center Sacramento Advisory Board. 57
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog A. Susana Ramírez Associate Professor Department of Public Health Communication University of California, Merced Research Interests Health communication; Communication in social and structural inequalities in health; Misinformation; Public opinion; Chronic disease prevention; Nutrition, food, and obesity; Latinx health https://www.ucmerced.edu/content/susana-ramirez A. Susana Ramírez is an Associate Professor of Public Health at the University of California, Merced. A social scientist with expertise in media, inequality, dietary health, cancer prevention, and Latinx culture, her research aims to advance the science of communication to improve population health. She has served as an expert on a CDC panel for communicating about obesity with Latinx populations and regularly speaks with the media on targeted junk food marketing and health disparities. In 2019, she was a visiting professor at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City and the director of the University of California Education Abroad Programs for Mexico. Professor Ramírez earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Public Health from Harvard University. 58
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Michael Reich Professor Department of Economics University of California, Berkeley Research Interests Labor economics; political economy; economics of racial inequality; labor market segmentation https://irle.berkeley.edu/people/michael-reich/ Michael Reich is a Professor of Economics and Co-Chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as Director of IRLE from 2004 to 2015. Professor Reich received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard. His research publications cover numerous areas of labor economics and political economy, including the economics of racial inequality, the analysis of labor market segmentation, historical stages in U.S. labor markets and social structures of accumulation, high-performance workplaces, union-management cooperation, Japanese labor-management systems, living wages, and minimum wages. His recent work, When Mandates Work: Raising Labor Standards at the Local Level, with K. Jacobs and M. Dietz, was published in 2014. 59
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Eleanor B. Schwarz Professor Department of Internal Medicine University of California Davis Health Research Interests Women’s health; health services research; epidemiology http://tiny.cc/EleanorBSchwarz Dr. Schwarz is an internationally recognized health services researcher whose work has centered on the use of technology to promote health, improving pregnancy outcomes through innovative approaches to family planning service delivery, and quantifying the effects of lactation on maternal health. Her research seeks to broaden understanding of the ways social policies and healthcare delivery systems affect health-related behaviors and long-term health outcomes. Dr. Schwarz has served as a Senior Medical Expert in Reproductive Health for the US Department of Veterans Affairs, medical consultant for the California Department of Healthcare Services’ Office of Family Planning, as a Deputy Editor for the Journal of General Internal Medicine, Associate Editor of Journal Watch Women’s Health, and as a member of the FDA’s Advisory Committee on Reproductive Health Drugs. She is a Fellow at the Society of Family Planning and past-chair of the Society of General Internal Medicine’s Taskforce on Women’s Health. 60
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Darien Shanske Professor School of Law and Department of Political Science University of California, Davis Research Interests State and local taxation; local government law; public finance https://law.ucdavis.edu/faculty/shanske/ Professor Darien Shanske is a Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California, Davis. Professor Shanske’s academic interests include taxation, particularly state and local taxation, local government law, public finance, and political theory. He is a co-author of the only commentary on the California Constitution and was the primary author on the sections relating to taxation, local government, and public finance. He is particularly interested in helping legislators navigate the tax/fee distinction, the state/local relationship, and raise more revenue from multinational corporations shifting their profits overseas. He has recently published specific proposals on how to increase taxation on multinational corporations and increase education funding locally. Professor Shanske holds a J.D. from Stanford Law School, a Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. in Philosophy from McGill University, and a B.A. from Columbia University. Before law school, Professor Shanske worked as a financial consultant to California local governments. After law school, he worked as an attorney in the public finance department of Sidley Austin in San Francisco. Professor Shanske then clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 61
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Ruth S. Shim Luke & Grace Kim Professor in Cultural Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences University of California Davis Health Research Interests Psychiatry; mental health, mental health disparities https://health.ucdavis.edu/team/psychiatry/22095/ ruth-shim---psychiatry Ruth S. Shim, M.D., M.P.H., is the Luke & Grace Professor in Cultural Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California Davis Health. Dr. Shim’s research interests are the social determinants of mental health, mental health disparities and inequities, and community-based mental health services. Dr. Shim received her M.D. from Emory University School of Medicine and her M.P.H. in Health Policy and Management from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. She serves on the board of trustees of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the American Association of Community Psychiatrists. Dr. Shim’s research has appeared in journals such as Psychiatric Services, American Journal of Public Health, Community Mental Health Journal, and the Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research. 62
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Steven E. Shladover Research Engineer Institute for Transportation Studies University of California, Berkeley Research Interests Road vehicle automation systems; vehicle infrastructure integration https://path.berkeley.edu/steven-e-shladover Dr. Steven Shladover is a Research Engineer at the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS) at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Shladover has been managing a wide range of ITS research projects at California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH), with a particular emphasis on cooperative systems and vehicle automation. He led PATH’s pioneering research on automated highway systems, including its participation in the National Automated Highway Systems Consortium from 1994–98, and has continued research on fully and partially automated vehicle systems since then. He chaired the Transportation Research Board Committee on Intelligent Transportation Systems from2004–2010 and its Committee on Vehicle-Highway Automation from 2013–2019. 63
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Lynn Silver Senior Advisor & Clinical Professor Public Health Institute University of California, San Francisco Research Interests Use of policy approaches to prevent chronic disease and its inequitable impact; cannabis policy; soda taxes https://www.phi.org/people/?name=lynn-silver Dr. Lynn Silver, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.A.P., a pediatrician and public health advocate, is a Senior Advisor at the Public Health Institute (PHI) and Clinical Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. She is an expert on using policy approaches to prevent chronic disease, its risk factors, and inequitable impact. She has served as a county health officer in Sonoma County and Assistant Commissioner of Health of New York City. At PHI, Dr. Silver founded and co-chairs the California Alliance for Prevention Funding, which advocates for a California Wellness Trust and the Getting it Right from the Start project, which offers local, county, and state governments guidance on adopting cannabis policies, protects youth from misusing cannabis, and promotes social equity. In New York City, she and her team launched groundbreaking initiatives such as the nation’s first trans-fat ban and calorie labeling laws, the national salt reduction initiative, and the Active Design Guidelines. Dr. Silver was previously a Visiting Scholar of International Health at the Karolinska Institute, Associate Professor and Acting Director of Health Sciences at the University of Brasilia, and taught at Brazil’s National School of Public Health. She has worked widely on health policy as a researcher, educator, government official, consultant, and advocate. She has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization, The World Bank, the Pan American Health Organization, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the Low-Income Investment Fund, hospitals, and foundations. She received her M.D. and M.P.H. degrees and pediatric training from the Johns Hopkins University. 64
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Whendee Silver Rudy Grah Chair and Professor Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California, Berkeley Research Interests Ecosystem ecology; biogeochemistry https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/people/ whendee-silver Dr. Whendee Silver is the Rudy Grah Endowed Chair and Professor of Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work seeks to determine the biogeochemical effects of climate change and human impacts on the environment, and the potential for mitigating these effects. The Silver Lab is currently working on climate change mitigation potential of working lands, drought and extreme storm impacts on forests and grasslands, and greenhouse gas dynamics of peatlands and wetlands. Professor Silver is the lead scientist of the Marin Carbon Project, which explores the potential for land-based climate change mitigation, particularly by composting high-emission organic waste for soil amendments to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide. The Silver Lab was awarded the Innovation Prize by the American Carbon Registry. Professor Silver is a fellow of the Ecological Society of America and an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow. In 2016, she was named UC Berkeley’s first Faculty Climate Action Champion, for outstanding teaching, research, and public service on climate change solutions, action, and broad engagement. She has over 160 publications. She received her Ph.D. in Ecosystem Ecology from Yale University. 65
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Sandra Simpkins Professor School of Education University of California, Irvine Research Interests Organized after-school activities; motivation; family influences; diversity & equity; immigration & culture; STEM https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_ id=6165 Dr. Sandra Simpkins is an expert in after school activities and STEM outcomes, particularly for underrepresented minorities and youth from disadvantaged backgrounds. Through quantitative and mixed methods techniques, her work examines how family and motivational factors predict students’ engagement in organized activities and STEM programs. 66
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Matthew Springer Professor School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco Research Interests Cell and gene therapy; cardiovascular disease; vascular function; effects of second-hand smoke https://profiles.ucsf.edu/matthew.springer Dr. Matthew L. Springer received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985 and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1992. He did postdoctoral research at Stanford and continued his research there as a senior scientist until joining the University of California, San Francisco faculty in 2003, where he is currently one of two non-clinicians on the faculty of the Division of Cardiology. In addition to research interests that include cell therapy and gene therapy approaches to study and treat cardiovascular disease, Dr. Springer’s laboratory studies the cardiovascular effects of brief exposure to secondhand smoke from tobacco and marijuana, and aerosol from e-cigarettes and vaporizers, and the related policy implications. He is a member of the University of California, San Francisco Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. 67
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Michael Stoll Professor of Public Policy and Urban Planning Luskin School of Public Affairs University of California, Los Angeles Research Interests Crime; economics; labor and employment; poverty; race and ethnicity https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/michael-stoll Michael A. Stoll is a Professor of Public Policy in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Stoll’s published work explores questions of poverty, labor markets, migration, and crime. His work explores the difficulties less-skilled workers face in the labor market, in particular the role that racial residential segregation, job location patterns, job skill demands, employer discrimination, job competition, transportation, job information, and criminal records play in limiting employment opportunities. His recent work examines the labor market consequences of mass incarceration and the benefits and costs of the prison boom. His book, Why Are so Many Americans in Prison (2013), explores the causes of the American prison boom and what to do about it to ensure both low crime and incarceration rates. 68
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Kathleen Tebb Associate Professor School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco Research Interests Developmental psychology; adolescent and young adult health; intervention development & program evaluation https://profiles.ucsf.edu/kathleen.tebb Kathleen Tebb Ph.D., F.S.A.H.M., is an Associate Professor at the University of California, San Francisco, in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. She is a developmental and health psychologist whose work focuses her research the factors that influence adolescent and young adult sexual and reproductive health. In her research, she develops and evaluates interventions promoting adolescent sexual and reproductive health, paying special attention to promoting health among racially and economically diverse populations. She also investigates the implementation of health policy and practices, including the impact of health care reform on adolescents and young adults’ access to and use of preventive and reproductive health services. 69
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Elisa K. Tong Associate Professor Department of Internal Medicine University of California Davis Health Research Interests Tobacco control policy; smoking cessation; tobacco use and health disparities; health systems change http://tiny.cc/ElisaKTong Elisa Tong, M.D., M.A., is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis. Her research interests are in tobacco control policy and cessation, with special interests in disparities. Dr. Tong’s research on the tobacco industry’s efforts to subvert scientific conclusions on secondhand smoke won an American Legacy Foundation award. She has since led “UC Quits” to improve tobacco treatment across the five University of California health systems and connect with the state quit-line, the California Smokers’ Helpline. She is now the Project Director for “CA Quits,” which hosts statewide learning collaboratives on tobacco treatment for safety net providers, Medi-Cal managed care plans, and public health partners. Dr. Tong also has interests in addressing tobacco policy and cessation on college campuses and serves on the University of California system-wide Smoke and Tobacco-Free Policy steering committee. 70
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Jessica Trounstine Professor Department of Political Science University of California, Merced Research Interests American politics; urban politics; political parties; voting and elections https://polisci.ucmerced.edu/trounstine Dr. Jessica Trounstine is the Board of Trustees’ Presidential Chair and studies American politics at the University of California, Merced. Her research focuses on subnational politics, primarily in large cities. Her work examines the process and quality of representation, particularly how political institutions enhance or limit residents’ ability to achieve a responsive government. Trounstine applies mixed methods to her scholarship by using historical analysis, qualitative data, and quantitative methods in her research designs. Her books include Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities, (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Political Monopolies in American Cities: The Rise and Fall of Bosses and Reformers (University of Chicago Press, 2008). Dr. Trounstine is the University of California Merced representative on the University of California Center Sacramento Faculty Council. 71
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Kristin Turney Associate Professor Department of Sociology University of California, Irvine Research Interests Inequality; child wellbeing; family demography; population health; incarceration and punishment https://kristinturney.com/ Kristin Turney’s research investigates the complex and dynamic role of families in creating, maintaining, and exacerbating social inequalities. Much of Professor Turney’s current research examines the consequences of criminal justice contact for family life. In this vein, she investigates the deleterious, beneficial, and inconsequential effects of criminal justice contact on the wellbeing of children and families over time; considers heterogeneity in the relationship between parental incarceration and family inequality; and evaluates the family, school, and neighborhood mechanisms through which parental incarceration fosters resilience among children. She is currently working on a book length manuscript, What Doing Time Does to Families: Incarceration and Family Life in the United States. In other ongoing work, she and a team of graduate students have interviewed jail inmates and their family members - including current and former romantic partners, children, and mothers - both during their incarceration and after release. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, the Foundation for Child Development, and others. 72
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Kenneth B. Wells David Weil Endowed-Chair and Professor-in- Residence David Geffen School of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles Research Interests Mental health; health outcomes; health disparities; community-based mental health improvement https://ph.ucla.edu/faculty/wells Kenneth B. Wells, M.D., M.P.H., is a psychiatrist, a Senior Scientist at RAND, a Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine and a Professor of Health Services at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health. He directs the Health Services Research Center of the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, which focuses on improving quality of care for psychiatric and neurological disorders across the lifespan. Dr. Wells is also the Co-Director for research at the University of California, Los Angeles/VA Center of Excellence for Veteran Resilience and Recovery and a staff psychiatrist at the Greater Los Angeles VA. His research focuses on improving mental health outcomes through a community-partnered, participatory research approach. 73
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Leroy Westerling Professor Management of Complex Systems University of California, Merced Research Interests Applied climatology; Climate-ecosystem- wildfire interactions; Statistical modeling for seasonal forecasts, paleofire reconstructions, and climate change impact assessments; Resource management and policy https://www.ucmerced.edu/content/leroy- westerling Dr. LeRoy Westerling is a Professor of Management of Complex Systems and co-director of the Center for Climate Communication at the University of California, Merced. His research interests include applied climatology and seasonal forecasting for wildfire management, climate change impacts on wildfire and related aspects of mountain hydrology, paleo reconstructions of climate-wildfire interactions, simulation of extreme events, and risk communication. Dr. Westerling holds a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. He has published extensively on wildfire and climate in the western United States and has led the long-term fire modeling efforts supporting the California State Climate Assessments. 74
UC CENTER SACRAMENTO Garen Wintemute Attending Physician and Professor Department of Emergency Medicine University of California Davis Health Research Interests Firearm policy; firearm violence; violence prevention https://health.ucdavis.edu/team/search/241/garen- wintemute---emergency-medicine-sacramento Dr. Wintemute is the founding director of the Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP) and holds the Baker–Teret Chair in Violence Prevention at the University of California, Davis. He also directs the University of California Firearm Violence Research Center (UCFC). He was among the first to study firearm violence as a public health problem, and firearm violence remains the primary focus of his research and policy work. He practices and teaches emergency medicine at the University of California Davis Health and is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine. His current research focuses on violence risk factors and interventions to prevent violence, particularly among firearm owners. Trained initially as a biologist at Yale University, Dr. Wintemute attended medical school and residency at the University of California, Davis, and studied epidemiology and injury prevention at Johns Hopkins University. 75
UCCS Policy Experts Catalog Frederick Zimmerman Professor Fielding School of Public Health University of California, Los Angeles Research Interests Effectiveness of public health policies; economics of health equity; ethical aspects of public health https://ph.ucla.edu/faculty/zimmerman Frederick J. Zimmerman is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health. His research focuses on how contextual economic factors, including public policy, inequality, and mass media, influence population. At the University of California, Los Angeles Center for Health Advancement, he studies the impact of health and social policy on population health, high-school graduation rates, crime rates, and local government finances for several jurisdictions in California and around the country. 76
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