A number of MCH faculty are involved in various projects that are related to maternal and child health:
The Bixby Program in Population, Family Planning & Maternal Health is a collaboration of students, researchers and staff dedicated to protecting the poorest and most vulnerable women and their families from unintended pregnancy and in the process help create a more prosperous, more ecologically sustainable, less divided and less conflict-ridden world.
Bright Beginnings
Bright Beginnings is a three year continuing education grant awarded to UC Berkeley’s Maternal and Child Health Program from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. The focus of the grant is on the issue of maternal mental health. The purpose of the grant is to provide MCH and other allied health professionals and clinicians skills in screening, assessment, treatment and referrals of maternal mental health conditions and identify ways of integrating these practices into primary care systems.
Bright Beginnings Conference
For more information about the 2008 Bright Beginnings Conference, visit the
Bright Beginnings Conference event page.
Venture Strategies is a nonprofit organization created to improve the health of low income people in resource-poor settings, by making use of existing market forces around the world. For example, we are working to make needed high quality, low cost, off patent pharmaceutical products available to people not reached by government health services, and reducing respiratory disease with cleaner burning stoves.
The Center for the Health Assessment of Mothers and Children of Salinas (CHAMACOS) is a project of the U.C. Berkeley Center for Children's Environmental Health Research, in partnership with Natividad Medical Center, Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas, and other community organizations. CHAMACOS is comprised of several research projects investigating the environment and children’s health in the Salinas Valley, Monterey County, California.
The Women’s Global Health Imperative (WGHI) is a global research center based at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Our mission is to improve the reproductive health of vulnerable women around the globe by: Conducting rigorous collaborative research to strengthen the reproductive health program evidence base; Developing and evaluating public health interventions; Studying gender and economic inequity; Building international capacity; Providing training and mentoring opportunities.
