Advisors

Professor Kirk Smith
Kirk is the Brian and Jennifer Maxwell Endowed Chair at the School of Public Health and Director of the Health, Environment, and Development Graduate Program. Previously, Professor Smith was founder and head of the Energy Program of the East-West Center in Honolulu. He is also a Visiting Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center and holds an Honorary Professorship at Sichuan University. He sits on a number of journal editorial boards and has published 7 books and more than 220 scientific articles. For this work, he was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1997.

He has worked in developing countries on energy/environment issues since 1981 and has extensive experience related to energy, air pollution monitoring, co-benefits of energy projects for health and climate protection, health effects of indoor and outdoor pollution, and risk assessment worldwide.

Dr. Nap Hosang
Nap is a Lecturer in the Maternal and Child Health Program at the School of Public Health, UC Berkeley. He is also Chair of the Interdisciplinary MPH Program and a faculty sponsor for the School’s Health Environment and Development program and the International Health Specialty Area.

Before joining the Berkeley faculty in 1989, Dr. Hosang was on the medical faculty at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. He is a practicing obstetrician (Kaiser-Permanente) with special interests in perinatal outcomes, breastfeeding and uterine fibroids domestically, and the management of maternal and child health services in developing countries. His teaching emphasizes leadership development and management training in public health education.

Dr. Hosang is a founding member of the Bay Area International Health Interest Group, a UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC San Francisco, and Stanford collaborative that promotes educational activities for students with interests in Global Health. He also co-founded the Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development (CEIHD).