Book an Advising Appointment with your Program Manager
The Program Managers are your graduate advisors and first point of contact after admission! They will be crucial in the overall planning and support for current students on topics ranging from academic planning, CalCentral support, and enrollment issues, to administrative advising and general program logistics (e.g., graduation/degree checks, leaves of absence, re-enrollment, etc.).
 | Darshani Johnson, M.S. (she/her/hers) Senior Program Manager Email: oomph_prog_mgr@berkeley.edu Message on Signal @djohnson.22 Schedule a Zoom appointment |
 | Zoe P. Blalock, M.S. (she/her) Program Manager Email: oomph_prog_mgr@berkeley.edu Message on Signal @zoepblalock.81 Schedule a Zoom appointment |
Prospective students, please reach out to the Admissions Team for advising and appointments
 | Evan vanDommelen-Gonzalez, DrPH, MPH is the interim faculty lead for the Epidemiology and Biostatistics concentration. She works with the Epidemiology/Biostatistics Program Manager Zoe P. Blalock to provide support and guidance as you map out your courses toward degree completion and align your practicum experience with your overarching learning and professional goals. Students looking for support are encouraged to connect with Zoe for advising at this time. Contact Advising to schedule an advising session about epidemiology and/or biostatistics courses, curricular planning, or professional development. |
 | Brent Fulton, PhD, MBA is the faculty lead for the HPM concentration. Brent can provide support and guidance as you map out your courses toward degree completion and align your Practicum experience with your overarching learning and professional goals. For the online MPH, Dr. Fulton is the faculty for Health Economics, offered in Fall 2. Brent can also provide Health Policy Management related professional development advising. Contact Brent to schedule an advising session about HPM courses, your curricular planning, or professional development. |
| Evan vanDommelen-Gonzalez, DrPH, MPH is the faculty lead for the Interdisciplinary Program option. Evan offers support and guidance as you map out your second-year courses toward degree completion and aims to align your Practicum experience with your overarching learning and professional goals. She also provides guidance to prepare for the Capstone, provides support if you are contemplating a career shift to or in public health, consider taking leave, or want to share feedback for program improvement. Academic advising is designed to be integrated with other student support and resources geared toward building your public health toolbox with the skills to promote and lead efforts towards health equity with communities around the world. Evan teaches 200GW: Health & Social Behavior and 289W: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Summer 1. Contact Evan if you would like to connect about courses, curricular planning, or professional development. Schedule an appointment |
 | Sarah Zyba, PhD, is the faculty lead for the OOMPH Food, Nutrition & Population Health concentration. Dr. Zyba’s research focuses on micronutrient deficiencies in young children and women of reproductive age, and interventions designed to improve micronutrient status in these populations. For the online MPH, Dr. Zyba is the faculty for Nutrition Assessment, offered in Spring 1. Together with the online MPH Nutrition program manager, Dr. Zyba can provide support and guidance as you map out your courses toward degree completion and align your practicum experience with your overarching learning and professional goals. Dr. Zyba can also provide Nutrition-related professional development advising if you are contemplating a career shift to Nutrition or would like to incorporate a few selected courses into your degree program. Contact Sarah if you would like to connect about Nutrition courses, curricular planning, or professional development. Schedule an appointment |
 | Kim MacPherson, MPH, MBA is the faculty lead advisor for the Rural Health Innovation Fellowship. Kim can provide support and guidance as complete your practicum experience with your overarching learning and professional goals. Kim is also the faculty for Health Care Finance, offered in Spring 2. Contact Kim if you would like to connect about the Rural Health Innovation Fellowship or schedule an advising session. |
| Allyse Rudolph allyse.rudolph@berkeley.edu Schedule an appointment |
 | Stephanie Nguyen (she/her) nguyens@berkeley.edu Schedule an appointment Stephanie provides general information about the OOMPH program to prospective students. |
| Evan vanDommelen-Gonzalez, DrPH, MPH (she/her) Contact: evg48@berkeley.edu Schedule an appointment Evan answers questions about the Comprehensive Exam and offers academic advising for milestone completion and special matters. |
 | Julie Moss, MFA, MAEd (she/her) Contact: Julie Moss Schedule an appointment Your first step is to complete the DSP Application process. Once complete, Julie Moss, The DSP liaison for OOMPH students, will receive a copy of your accommodation letter, as do your course faculty. Julie can assist with questions about the implementation of your accommodations in OOMPH courses. Please note that she cannot approve new accommodations, which are handled through the DSP office. |
 | Jay Graham, PhD, MBA, MPH Contact: jay.graham@berkeley.edu |
| Evan vanDommelen, DrPH, MPH Contact: evg48@berkeley.edu |
Instructional Designer | Julie Moss, MFA, MAEd (she/her) Contact: juliecmoss@berkeley.edu Schedule an appointment |
 Instructional Designer | Michelle Ruiz, MAEd (she/her) Contact: m.ruiz@berkeley.edu Schedule an appointment |
 Instructional Designer | David Connell, MPH (he/him) Contact: davidconnell@berkeley.edu Schedule an appointment |
 | Sara Ayazi, JD, MS (she/her) RISE: Berkeley Public Health Careers & Leadership Office Contact: ayazi@berkeley.edu Schedule an appointment via PHLEX Sara provides career counseling to BPH students/alumni and wraparound practicum support to all OOMPH students. |
 | Caitlin Green, MA (she/her) RISE: Berkeley Public Health Careers & Leadership Office Contact: cgreen@berkeley.edu Schedule an appointment via PHLEX Caitlin provides career counseling and pre-health advising to BPH students/alumni. |
 | Kandis Rogers, MAEd (she/her) RISE: Berkeley Public Health Careers & Leadership Office Contact: krodgers@berkeley.edu Schedule an appointment via PHLEX Kandis provides career counseling to BPH students/alumni and wraparound practicum support to all OOMPH students. |
 | Krista Anandakuttan (she/her) Contact: kanandakuttan@berkeley.edu Krista can assist with developing search strategies, finding data, managing citations, understanding open access publishing options, and teaching how to effectively use the library. Please do not hesitate to contact Krista if you have questions related to literature reviews, citation management, open access publishing, journal access problems, and more. You can also reach out to suggest books and journals for the collection or to request library workshops for students. |
| Lucas Carlton Contact: lucascarlton@berkeley.edu Schedule an appointment |
| Jen Hajcak Contact: jhajcak@berkeley.edu |
| Annie Drevno Contact: adrevno@berkeley.edu |