Tracy Lam-Hine, DrPH

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Tracy Lam-Hine is a 1st year in the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program focusing on epidemiology and the health of low-income workers in California. Previously Tracy was a program officer at REDF, a nonprofit foundation funding workforce training programs for people who have experienced major traumas like incarcerion, homelessness, and substance use disorders. He is a proud double Golden Bear, a native of Berkeley, and celebrates his intersectional identities as a mixed-race gay son of a refugee.

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Jose Jimenez, HPM

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Jose Jimenez is a second-year MPH student in Health Policy and Management. He is originally from El Monte and lived in West Covina (both cities near Los Angeles) before coming to graduate school. He earned his bachelor's degree at UCLA, where he studied Psychobiology and received a minor in Korean Languages. Before starting graduate school at UC Berkeley, he worked at FQHC clinics in South Los Angeles and Northeast Los Angeles. He was primary involved in front desk operations, improving clinic procedures and protocols, and oversaw a quality improvement project to reduce same-day appointment wait times. This past summer, he interned at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, a safety-net county hospital, where he was involved in a Digital Disparities project, which aimed to address the low patient portal enrollment among the primarily Spanish-speaking population. Jose is passionate about serving the Latinx and low-income communities and communities that lack access to affordable and comprehensive health care coverage.

 

Vanessa Gomez, PHN

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Vanessa Gomez is a first-year MPH student in the Public Health Nutrition concentration. She is a Los Angeles native and received her B.S. in Biology from UCLA in 2015. Before starting graduate school at UC Berkeley, she worked and interned at several health non-profit organizations such as Planned Parenthood, the Garden School Foundation, and the Alzheimer's Association, where she served as a program & education assistant and coordinated education programs and support groups for people with Alzheimer's disease and their families. Vanessa is passionate about promoting health equity and is interested in addressing the social determinants of health to ameliorate health disparities among immigrant populations. In her free time, Vanessa enjoys watching The Office, trying out new restaurants in the Bay Area, listening to podcasts, reading, and running.