Discipline(s):
Family Medicine

Area(s) of Expertise:
Community Preventive Health Interventions, Nutrition, Physical Activity, Unemployment, Immigration

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Background:
Laura M. Gottlieb, MD, MPH is an incoming Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco. Laura completed her MD at Harvard Medical School and her MPH at the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. She also completed a family medicine residency at the Harborview Medical Center with the University of Washington. Her MPH thesis focused on the influence of food supplementation programs on obesity in low- income women. Her current work is on the role of macro-level policies (community planning, living wages, welfare reform) in changing health outcomes. With the Health and Society Scholars, she plans to work with the Alameda and San Francisco Public Health Departments in promoting and improving health impact assessments so they can be used to influence policy recommendations. Other academic interests include integrating social determinants of health theory with medical education and exploring the current obesity epidemic through historical and anthropological lenses. Laura spends time outside the office laughing, running and hiking, nationally and internationally, with her sweet husband and their adorable brown dog.

Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Laura Gottlieb's available publications in PubMed.