An interview with Cheri Pies
Cheri Pies, MSW, DrPH is a Clinical Professor in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley, and former Director of Family, Maternal and Child Health programs at Contra Costa Health Services. She is actively involved in the practical application of life course theory to the work of state and county health departments. We recently sat down with Cheri to hear her thoughts about the future directions of life course health development research, and her vision for the Maternal and Child Health Life Course Research Network (MCH LCRN).
The interview was conducted by Shirley Russ, MD, MPH, Health Sciences Professor of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Attending Physician in the Department of Academic Primary Care Pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and Sepideh Rabi, Medical Student at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. This is the second in a series of interviews with national and international experts in life course health development.