Tamar Antin, DrPH, MAA
Director
Tamar MJ Antin, DrPH, is an applied anthropologist and the founder and Director of the Center for Critical Public Health (CCPH). For almost two decades, she has built a program of theoretically-informed qualitative research that shifts attention away from individual behavior and toward the social and structural conditions that shape health inequities. Her work examines how practices like smoking, drinking, and drug use are embedded in place, stigma, and inequality, with a particular focus on rural communities and LGBTQ+ health equity. Drawing on intersectionality, structural stigma, and place-based frameworks, Dr. Antin and her team challenge deficit-based narratives and partner with communities to inform a more just public health policy and practice.
Dr. Antin’s research has been funded by California’s Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program and the National Institutes of Health, including the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. She serves as Research Advisor to the California Tobacco Prevention Program’s Statewide Coordinating Center and as Philanthropy Chair on the board of Insight Housing. She received her DrPH from UC Berkeley and divides her time between Berkeley and the mountains of Siskiyou County.
Geoffrey Hunt, PhD
Co-Director
Geoffrey received his PhD in social anthropology at the University of Kent in 1989. For over 20 years, he has conducted a series of research projects funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health focusing on youth and ethnic minority cultures. Currently he is a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis and Professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark.
Sharon Lipperman-Kreda, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Sharon Lipperman-Kreda (she/her) is a Senior Research Scientist whose research is grounded in a socio-ecological framework that considers how young people interact with their physical, social, and situational environments and how these environments inequitably shape tobacco, alcohol, and other substance use. She has expertise in using survey and Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) methods for substance use research and in analyzing multilevel and intensive longitudinal data. The mission of her research program is to promote social justice by informing policies, interventions, and other prevention efforts to reduce inequities in substance use among minoritized and marginalized populations.
Dr. Lipperman-Kreda received her M.A and Ph.D. in Criminology from Bar Ilan University in Israel and was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Prevention Science Research Training Program at the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation and the School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley. She has been the principal investigator and a co-investigator on many quantitative and qualitative projects focusing on tobacco, alcohol, and other substance use among young people as well as minoritized populations including racial/ethnic and sexual and gender minorities. Her research has been funded by the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program and the National Institutes of Health.
Complete List of Published Work:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/sharon.lipperman-kreda.1/bibliography/47479634/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending
Rachelle Annechino, MIMS
Information Systems
Rachelle manages information systems and digital media at the Center for Critical Public Health while contributing to the center’s ethnographic work. She has a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley School of Information.
A list of Rachelle’s publications is available at:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/rachelle.annechino.3/bibliography/public/
Emily Kaner, BS
Research Associate
Emily is a Research Associate and Interviewer with the Center for Critical Public Health. She is currently pursuing an MPH at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health focused on the structural determinants of health, intersections between health and place, and the use of mixed methods in research. She holds a BS in Molecular Environmental Biology from UC Berkeley.
Em Sanders, BA
Project Manager and Interviewer
Ida Wilson, MA
Project Manager
Ida is a qualitative researcher and project manager with the Center for Critical Public Health. Currently, she manages our Sexual Gender Minority Young Adults and Intoxication (SGMI) project funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). In addition to managing the SGMI project, she manages our student internship program, where she conducts training in qualitative methods and analysis. Ida received a master’s degree in applied anthropology from San José State University in 2015 and a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from the University of California, Riverside in 2013. She has been with the Center for Critical Public Health since 2016.