Graduate Academic Program Directors

Paul Blanc, MD, MSPH

Professor of Medicine, Division of OEM, UCSF Chief, Division of OEM

Sadie Costello, PhD, MPH

COEH Deputy Director | Targeted Research Training Program Director | STEER Co-Director

Ellen Eisen, ScD

Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Program Director

Fadi Fathallah, PhD

Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at UC Davis Professor

Professor Fadi Fathallah, PhD, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at UC Davis, provides lectures in the Ergonomics course at UC Berkeley. His expertise in spine biomechanics (with Professor Krause’s expertise in low back pain) helps to fill a previously identified weakness in this area. The UCSF/Berkeley Ergonomics Program was instrumental in convincing the Davis campus to invest in a tenure-track faculty FTE in ergonomics and has now developed strong collaborations in agricultural ergonomics teaching and research crossing campus lines.

Carisa Harris, PhD, CPE

Director of COEH | Director of UCSF/UCB Ergonomics Graduate Training Program | STEER Director

Associate Professor and Director Carisa Harris Adamson, PhD, CPE is the primary graduate advisor for M.S., MPH and Ph.D. students; approximately 50% of her time is directly involved in teaching and mentoring (e.g. courses, oversight of graduate students' research projects, mentoring field/clinical internships etc). She is a Faculty Member in the Department of Medicine at University of California San Francisco with a...

Michelle Meyer

Program Director
Continuing Education

Elizabeth Noth, PhD, CIH

Director of the Industrial Hygiene Program

As Director of the Industrial Hygiene program in the Northern California NIOSH Education and Research Center at the Northern California Center of Occupational and Environmental Health, I provide leadership in mentoring, teaching and research opportunities to student trainees in our program. My background as an exposure assessment scientist with over 20 years of experience in air pollution exposure assessment for both occupational and environmental research studies well prepared me to provide scientific and professional mentorship. My own research has focused on air pollution...

Ajay Pilarisetti MPH, PhD

Faculty Director | Assistant Professor | Steer Mentor
Industrial Hygiene