The Forum Congratulates Dr. Stefano Bertozzi, New Dean of UC Berkeley School of Public Health

The Forum congratulates Dr. Stefano Bertozzi who has been named dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, effective September 1, 2013.  Dr. Bertozzi is a prominent global health scientist, health economist and AIDS expert.  Dr. Bertozzi is currently a senior fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where he has directed HIV and tuberculosis programs and led a team that manages the Foundation's grants in HIV vaccine development, biomedical prevention research, diagnostics, and strategies for introduction and scaling-up of interventions. The Forum has had the honor of working with Dr. Bertozzi in his current position.  We welcome him to UC Berkeley and look forward to working with him in his new role as dean.

Click here to read the press release from the UC Berkeley SPH welcoming Dr. Bertozzi

The Forum thanks Dr. Stephen Shortell, the outgoing dean of the School of Public Health, for his support of the Forum over the years. Among his many contributions to the university, Dr. Shortell oversaw the development of over $100 million of foundation and philanthropic support and created the university's upper-division undergraduate major in public health including the launch of UC Berkeley's first largely online degree-granting program. Dr. Shortell will remain at the School of Public Health as the Blue Cross of California Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management.

Click here to read Executive Vice Chancellor George Breslauer's thank you to Dr. Shortell