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Lia Fernald

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Lia Fernald, Ph.D.

  • Brian and Jennifer Endowed Chair in Public Health, and Professor in Community Health Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Research Affiliate, Rural Education Action Program
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Biography

Dr. Lia Fernald, PhD, MBA, has been working in the field of public health for over 20 years focusing specifically on infants and children living in poverty, with the overarching goal of improving lives of vulnerable children through systemic, strategic, and effective interventions. Dr. Fernald has written almost 200 papers using rigorous methodological approaches to design and examine integrated interventions to address inequalities, health disparities and child development outcomes. She is a global expert on the effects of community mobilization, conditional cash transfer programs, and nutrition programs on infant, child, and family health and developmental outcomes. For a complete list of publications click here.