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Carmen R. Nevarez, MD, MPH, PHI Medical Director and Vice President of External Relations At PHI Dr. Nevarez is responsible for public health advocacy, incubating new project areas and developing relationships with health and public health organizations and interests. She also serves as co-investigator for the Center's California Comparative Teen Birth Rate Study. Nevarez is formerly the health officer and department director of the City of Berkeley's Health and Human Services Department. During her tenure at the City of Berkeley, she was named environmental health director and later, director of the Department of Health and Human Services. As director, she had responsibility over a comprehensive department with public health, mental health, environmental health and social services programs. She was instrumental in the development of the Berkeley Primary Care Access Clinic, a new entity that was created as a joint project of community interests, the local community hospital and regional political interests. After leaving the City of Berkeley, she began CRN Health Consulting Group, and participated in the development of a series of projects in public health leadership, public health education and community health. In 1996, she became the community liaison in the Office of the Dean of School of Public Health (SPH) at the University of California, Berkeley. She helped to develop university participation in community-based public health projects. She also developed and taught a graduate course in Multicultural Competence in Public Health. She provided considerable expertise in the development of the SPH proposal for a Public Health Workforce Development Project. Since 1979, she has maintained a part-time clinical practice. Dr. Nevarez currently serves as executive board member for the American Public Health Association, is past president of the California Public Health Association - North, and former board chair of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy. |
