b THE SELF-STUDY DOCUMENT SHOULD INCLUDE DESCRIPTION OF SPECIFIC SUPPORT AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE IN THE SCHOOL FOR THE

BACHELORS DEGREE PROGRAMS.

The Bachelor of Arts degree in public health has a fulltime dedicated undergraduate major advisor Tony Soyka. Mr. Soyka is readily available to the students for course planning, advising, and assistance in ensuring their success in the program.

The School also offers a Health Career Opportunity Program (HCOP) that provides undergraduate public health majors with career and graduate school advising, mentorship, practice based coursework and enrichment programs that enhance their success and preparation to be competitive applicants for jobs and graduate health professions schools. Enrichment programs include a primary care and public health exposure course, a summer research program with School of Public Health Faculty, a GRE preparation program, and a Minorities in Health Conference. HCOP partnerships with Stanford Medical School, San Francisco State, and the Health Career Connection expand and enhance available opportunities, support, and connections.

HCOP is part of the Center for Public Health Practice which also provides undergraduates with opportunities to participate in four courses: 1)What Can you do with a Public Health Degree?, 2) Public Health Professional Development Workshop Series, 3) Effective Public Health

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Negotiations, and 4) Public Health Advocacy in Action. All are designed to enable students to strengthen practical public health competencies while also gaining valuable career exposure, experience, and networking. Students also gain powerful experience through participating in CPHP sponsored student clubs including Multicultural Health in Action and Asian Pacific Islander Women’s Forum.

The undergraduates have access to the School of Public Health peer advisory group. Graduate Application Diversity Services (GRADS) peer advisors provide information to prospective students on coursework and how to get into the program, as well as, providing ongoing support during their study. The advisors work with undergraduate public health majors and other prospective students on strengthening their MPH program knowledge and applications.

SPH dedicates a section of the School website to the Undergraduate program. The site describes the major, informs students on how to declare a major in Public Health; provides information, contact names and numbers for advising; lists all course requirements; and shows samples of courses of study. The site provides links to a number of other resources of support for Public Health undergraduates including Cal Undergraduate Public Health Coalition student group, the Career Center, the Center for Public Health Practice, the College of Letters & Science, the Education Abroad Program, the Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program, the

Undergraduate Handbook, the Undergraduate Student Learning Initiative (USLI) document for Public Health Undergraduate Major, The UC Berkeley Washington Program, and a link to the Public Health Library. (See website: http://sph.berkeley.edu/undergraduate-major/sample-courses-study)

Undergraduate students apply and are accepted into the UC Berkeley College of Letters and Sciences. The College has a robust framework of support for all undergraduate students - all of which are available to the Public Health undergraduate.

School of Public Health undergraduates have opportunities for paid and volunteer research program participation. Programs are promoted to students through courses, list serves, advising and student health clubs. Some examples include:

 Health Career Connection (HCC) inspires and empowers undergraduate students to pursue public health careers through its comprehensive, paid summer internship program.

Interns are placed in full-time 10 week internships in a wide range of public health settings and work on priority projects that strengthen their skills and experience. In addition HCC interns participate in career, professional development and graduate education workshops with a cohort of other students in their region. Over 25 UCB undergraduates participate in HCC internships each summer in one of 8 regions- 4 in California, New England, New York, North Carolina and Washington DC. HCC connects students to leading public health and medical school partners for support to pursue

graduate programs. Over 70% of HCC interns are offered a permanent job or to extend their internship.

 The SPH HCOP Summer Research Program offers undergraduate students the opportunity to conduct research with a UCB SPH faculty member. Students work on

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priority public health research topics and gain valuable mentorship while also participating as a cohort in professional development and skill building workshops.

Participants also participate in a GRE preparation course.

 Health Leads at UC Berkeley recruits undergraduate public health students to serve as advocates for patients needing assistance with social determinant related issues that need improvement for them to be healthy. Students are trained to be advocates and staff health desks in clinics at Kaiser Richmond and Contra Costa Regional Medical Center.

 The Short Term Educational Experiences for Research (STEER) program offered by the Division of Environmental Health Sciences in the School of Public Health has a summer research internship for undergraduate students introducing them to the field of environmental health sciences, with the long-term aim of increasing the number of talented students who pursue graduate degrees and careers in this field. The STEER program targets undergraduates with an interest in the environmental health sciences and typically has a 50:50 split of UCB and non-UCB students. This nine week summer session provides a paid summer internship allowing students to conduct research with a designated faculty mentor and members of their research team, including staff scientists, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. The Program constantly seeks to improve its recruitment process to better reach out to minority and disadvantaged students. Website:

http://steer.berkeley.edu/

 The Safe Transportation Research and Education Center offers the following opportunities:

o Safe Routes to Transit Program Evaluation and Bicycle/Pedestrian Counts - This project is an evaluation of a Bay Area program sponsored by the

Metropolitan Transportation Commission to evaluate the impact of pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure improvements on mode shift, perceived safety and

perceived air quality. The project trained undergraduate students as field data collectors and hired undergraduates in student assistant positions.

o Community Pedestrian Safety Training Project (CPST) - The purpose of the CPST is to help make walking safer and more pleasant in California's

communities. Trainings are tailored to each community, enlisting participation from community members and safety advocates, along with professional staff and officials from local government and agencies. Undergraduate students were hired as student assistants for this project.

o Teens in the Driver Seat (TDS) - TDS is a program started by Texas

Transportation Institute. It is a peer-to-peer program that promotes driving safety on high school campuses. Undergraduate students were hired as student assistants for this project.

o SafeTREC VII - The overall goal of the grant is to reduce the number of persons killed and injured in traffic collisions. Undergraduate students were hired as student assistants for this project.

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 Peer Health Exchange recruits, selects, and trains UC Berkeley undergraduate student volunteers to teach high school students a comprehensive health curriculum consisting of thirteen standardized health workshops on topics ranging from decision-making and sexual health to substance abuse and nutrition. Several studies demonstrate that teenagers better absorb health information when it is delivered by educators of a similar age as opposed to adult educators. PHE educators gain valuable skills and experience while having a significant impact on student health. They also serve as role models.

 Project Imhotep, based at Morehouse College, is an eleven-week summer internship designed to increase the knowledge and skills of student trainees in biostatistics,

epidemiology, and occupational safety and health. The program begins with two weeks of intense educational training. During the following eight weeks, interns conduct public health research with experts at community based organizations, and state and

federal public health agencies. UCB’s Director of Diversity is part of the program team and promotes the opportunity widely to UCB undergraduates, many of whom have participated.

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