Our work is achieved in partnership with community through four aims:
Community Engagement:
At the center of our work lies our commitment to partnering with those who are disproportionately impacted by preterm birth, Black and Brown communities. Learn more about our Community Advisory Board.
Aim 1: Discovery and Precision Health-Focused Research:
We seek to better understand the chronic stressors, such as racism, and protective factors that may affect preterm birth and the health outcomes of mothers and their babies. Learn More.
Aim 2: Interventions Research Across the Reproductive Life Course:
We seek to reveal, and ultimately mitigate, the behavioral, institutional, and policy-level barriers that impede scale-up of effective interventions to reduce preterm birth and poor outcomes among those born too soon. We are also dedicated to evaluating promising new interventions across the reproductive life course (Women's Health Equity, prenatal, and postnatal strategies). Learn More.
Aim 3: Collective Impact and Policy:
We seek to engage health, government, social service, and community stakeholders to advance mutually reinforcing activities that contribute to population-level reductions in preterm birth. Learn More.
Aim 4: Communication, Collaboration, and Capacity Building:
We work to disseminate knowledge, partner with diverse stakeholders, and build the capacity of academic and community leaders domestically and globally. Learn more about our Postdoctoral Transdisciplinary Research Fellowship and Benioff Community Innovator Program.
Leadership
Operations
Julie Harris
Operations Manager
Je'Meshia Wade
Executive Program Coordinator
Kai Toney
Operations Coordinator
Community Engagement
Discovery Research (Aim 1)
Rebecca Baer
Senior Epidemiologist
Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski
Director
Safyer McKenzie- Sampson
Graduate Student Researcher
Scott Oltman
Senior Epidemiologist
Discovery Collaborative Co-Investigators
James
Anderson
UCSF
Rebecca Baer
UCSD
Gretchen Bandoli UCSD
Jessica Block
UCSD
Brittany Chambers
UCSF
Christina Chambers
UCSD
Joe DeRisi
UCSF
Elissa Epel
UCSF
Jennifer Felder
UCSF
Elena Flowers
UCSF
Dawn Gano
UCSF
Anu Manchikanti Gómez
UC Berkeley
Rita Hamad
UCSF
Marta Jankowska
UCSD
Kord Korber
UCSF
Jue Lin
UCSF
Chuck McCulloch
UCSF
Monica McLemore
UCSF
Lou Muglia
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Tania Pacheco-Werner
CSU Fresno
Matt Pantell
UCSF
Nisha Parikh
UCSF
Mark Petersen
UCSF
Brian Piening
Providence Cancer Center
Aric Prather
UCSF
Elizabeth Rogers
UCSF
Kelli Ryckman
University of Iowa
Karen Scott
UCSF
Michael Snyder
Stanford
Martina Steurer-Muller
UCSF
Jacqueline Torres
UCSF
Interventions Across the Reproductive Lifecourse (Aim 2)
Women's Health Equity (Aim 2a) and Prenatal Care (Aim 2b)
Christine Dehlendorf
Faculty Member (2a)
Miriam Kuppermann
Director
EMBRACE Study
Bridgette Blebu
Co-Investigator
Brittany Chambers
Co-Investigator
Jenn Felder
Co-Investigator
Deborah Karasek
Co-Investigator
Miriam Kuppermann
Principal Investigator
Kim Coleman-Phox
Co-Investigator
Chuck MuCulloch
Co-Investigator
Collective Impact and Policy (Aim 3)
Expecting Justice, San Francisco Collective Impact for Healthy Births
San Francisco Department of Health Backbone Team
Latriece Love Goodlett
Associate Director
Breezy Powell
Program Assistant
Fresno GROWS Hub for Civic Engagement
Fresno GROWS Backbone Team
Hope Flint
Administrative Assistant
Sapphire Underwood Moore
Communications Coordinator
Fresno GROWS Steering Committee
- Dr. Venise Curry, Community Champion, Fresno GROWS Steering Committee Co-Chair
- Shantay Davies-Balch, Community Champion, Fresno GROWS Steering Committee Co-Chair, BLACK Wellness and Prosperity Center
- Rose Mary Rahn, Fresno DPH
- Yolanda Randles, West Fresno Family Resource Center
- Heather Brown, Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission (EOC)
- Nicole Hutchings, Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission (EOC)
- Fabiola Gonzales, First Five, Fresno County
- Lupita Ramirez, First Five Fresno County
- Dr. Jonathan Fuchs, UCSF California PTBi
- Dr. Bridgette Blebu, UCSF California PTBi
Policy Core
- Jonathan Fuchs
- Deborah Karasek
- Selina Lao Mason
- Solaire Spellen
- Jacqueline Torres
- Hope Williams
- Shanell Williams
Communications, Collaboration, Capacity Building (Aim 4)
Communications Team
Giannina Ong
Research Projects and Communications Manager
Loren Newman
Designer and Voices for Birth Justice Manager
Lou Bustamante
Writer and Communications Manager
Capacity Building (Transdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship Program)
Jonathan Fuchs
Associate Director
Miriam Kuppermann
Director
Nicole Santos
Associate Director
Current Postdoctoral Fellows
Kayla Karvonen
Postdoctoral Fellow
Serwaa Omowale
Postdoctoral Fellow
Elze Rackaityte
Postdoctoral Fellow
