Bernadette Boden-Albala
Director of Program in Public Health and Founding Dean of proposed School of Population Health | UC Irvine
Irvine, CA, UNITED STATES
Bernadette Boden-Albala, Dr.P.H., is a renowned researcher & administrator who researches community-based stroke & heart disease prevention.
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Bernadette Boden-Albala, Dr.P.H., is a renowned researcher and administrator whose efforts to reduce health disparities for America’s disadvantaged became a blueprint for community-based stroke and heart disease prevention. She is the director of the Program in Public Health and and founding dean of the proposed School of Population Health.
Areas of Expertise (4)
Stroke and heart disease prevention
Public Health
Infectious Diseases
COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
Education (1)
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health: DrPH, MPH, Sociomedical Science
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Media Appearances (8)
Lifespan Versus Health Span – How Can We All Stay Healthier Longer?
Forbes online
2025-01-09
Bernadette Boden-Albala, director and founding dean of the Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health, states, “The distinction between lifespan—the number of years we live—and health span—the years we live free from disease or disability—is a critical conversation for public health, especially for disadvantaged communities that face systemic inequities. … As a public health researcher and higher education leader with three decades of experience addressing social determinants of health, I believe focusing on health span goes beyond semantics—it's about prioritizing quality of life over simply extending years. … Here are three strategies we can take, as individuals and as a society, to prioritize healthier lives for everyone.”
OC500 2024: Bernadette Boden-Albala
Orange County Business Journal online
2024-11-17
Tapped as founding dean for the newly created Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health.
A Healthier Generation Starts With Healthier Women
Forbes online
2024-11-12
Bernadette Boden Albala, Director and Founding Dean of UC Irvine Public Health writes, “I have seen firsthand how a woman’s health shapes the future well-being of all the people in their life: children, parents, partners, and friends. Despite advances in public health, we still fail to give women’s health the attention it deserves, especially during the critical stages of adolescence, reproductive years, midlife, and in later years of life. I outline below some of the critical blind spots in women’s health research and offer recommendations for where we need to invest to ensure better outcomes for women who comprise more than half of our country’s population.”
Leaving the Big Apple for UCI: Bernadette Boden-Albala
Irvine Standard online
2024-10-02
We talked with Boden-Albala, the director and founding dean of the new UC Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health, about what makes the new school unique, why students flock to its door and what she likes to do in her free time. … What distinguishes UCI from other elite schools in California? “Being a new school, we’re nimble and fluid, addressing problems of the future instead of the past. … UCI has one of the largest undergraduate public health programs, and we believe in health equity.”
Australians live up to 5 years longer than Americans, study finds. Here are 5 lessons we can learn from them.
Yahoo Life online
2024-08-14
Appointments covered by universal health care in Australia “include prevention, which is critical when we’re thinking about life expectancy,” Bernadette Boden-Albala, director and founding dean of the UC Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health, tells Yahoo Life. “We pride ourselves on spending a huge amount of money on health care and the health care system [in the U.S.], but we have a very fragmented health care system,” she adds. “Some people in this country are going to get the very best health care that’s available globally, and other people have no health care at all — that’s playing heavily into what we’re seeing here.”
UCI Names New School of Public Health After Joe Wen
Orange County Business Journal online
2024-07-19
The University of California, Irvine announced that its newly created school of public health will be named after Joe. C. Wen, founder of multinational conglomerate Formosa Ltd., in recognition of a $50 million gift from Wen. …“When we created the Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, UC Irvine committed to elevating all of our health science programs to full schools, and I am delighted that the regents have completed the final piece of that promise,” Chancellor Howard Gillman said in a statement. The Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health will be led by Founding Dean Bernadette Boden-Albala.
The One Unexpected Thing Infectious Disease Experts Are Begging You to Stop Doing If You Don't Want to Get COVID This Summer
Parade online
2024-07-13
"As a public health leader, I will always strive to remind our community the substantial evidence backing the effectiveness of vaccines," Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, PH, director and founding dean of the Program in Public Health in the Susan & Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences at University of California, Irvine, tells Parade. "They can either completely prevent infection or stop people from experiencing severe illness that requires hospitalization. The key is to keep your vaccines up to date as each season we face a new strain of flu or even a new variant of COVID-19. The most up-to-date shot will protect you from the viruses circulating now."
What to Know About the LB.1 COVID-19 Variant
Verywell Health online
2024-07-03
An emerging COVID-19 subvariant named LB.1 now makes up 17.5% of new cases in the United States and is on track to surpass KP.2 and KP.3. Bernadette Boden-Albala, DrPH, MPH, director of the public health program at UC Irvine, said that the public should expect similar symptoms from LB.1, an Omicron offshoot, as its predecessors. … “Continuous vigilance, vaccination updates, and adaptive health strategies will be essential in coexisting with the virus,” Boden-Albala said.
Articles (5)
Unrecognized implementation science engagement among health researchers in the USA: a national survey
Implementation Science CommunicationsElizabeth R. Stevens, Donna Shelley, and Bernadette Boden-Albala
2020 Implementation science (IS) has the potential to serve an important role in encouraging the successful uptake of evidence-based interventions. The current state of IS awareness and engagement among health researchers, however, is relatively unknown
Abstract WP366: Exploring the Association Between Physician Trust and Recurrent Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)
StrokeAnita Venkatesan, Bernadette Boden-Albala, Nina Parikh, Emily Goldmann
2020 More positive health behaviors, fewer symptoms, higher quality of life, and greater treatment satisfaction have been reported among those with greater physician trust. This study assessed the relationship between physician trust and recurrent stroke/TIA within 1 year of discharge among stroke survivors in Northern Manhattan.
Abstract TP430: A Family/Friend Network Approach to Secondary Stroke Prevention: Findings From the FURRThER Pilot
StrokeBernadette Boden Albala, Joyce O'Connor, Noa Appleton, Michael Parides
2020 Despite prevention strategies with proven efficacy, recurrent stroke rates, especially in minority populations, remain high. Mobilizing stroke patients’ social networks on risk reduction goals may optimize secondary prevention efforts. Families/Friends Understanding Risk Reduction Through Educational Reinforcement (FURRThER) is a culturally-tailored, social network-based intervention facilitated by an interactive web portal and targeted at management of vascular risk factors.
A Systematic Review of Environmental Health Outcomes in Selected American Indian and Alaska Native Populations
Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health DisparitiesGabriella Y. Meltzer, Beverly-Xaviera Watkins, Dorice Vieira, Judith T. Zelikoff & Bernadette Boden-Albala
2020 Economic and social marginalization among American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/ANs) results in higher chronic disease prevalence. Potential causal associations between toxic environmental exposures and adverse health outcomes within AI/AN communities are not well understood.
Barriers to engagement in implementation science research: a national survey
Translational Behavioral MedicineTranslational Behavioral Medicine
2020 Low levels of engagement in implementation science (IS) among health researchers is a multifaceted issue. With the aim of guiding efforts to increase engagement in IS research, we sought to identify barriers to engagement in IS within the health research community. We performed an online survey of health researchers in the United States in 2018. Basic science researchers were excluded from the sample.
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