Thanks for visiting my website! I’m a professor, social epidemiologist, visual artist, and a Fulbright Scholar. I’m also the executive director of the Center for Cultural Humility at UC Berkeley, and I run Research Lateral, or ReLateral, a “community lab” focused on health disparities. Before coming to Berkeley, I held enriching roles inside-and-outside of academia, working as an epidemiologist, program evaluator, and research manager at a variety of social services and healthcare institutions. I earned a Doctorate in Sociology from the University of Chicago (2020), a Master’s of Public Health from Columbia University (2010) and a Bachelor’s of Arts in anthropology from the University of Michigan (2008).  To read more about my background and research, please click here.

My current focus is on what I like to call the Health Disparities Research Industrial Complex – check out my  publication on it and then see the follow-up piece here.

I’ve written for The New York Times, TIME Magazine, POLITICO, Fortune Magazine,  and The Los Angeles Times, among other outlets. 

You can contact me at jezell@berkeley.edu.

-Jerel