Title
              Associate Professor 
          
            Department
                        School of Social Welfare
              
      
            Faculty URL
              https://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/faculty/tina-sacks
          
            Research Group
              https://crsc.berkeley.edu/
          
            Email
              tsacks@berkeley.edu
          
            Phone
              (773) 314-7402
          
                    
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                  Research Expertise and Interest
                            racial disparities in health; social determinants of health; race,                  class and gender; and poverty and inequality.              
      
            Research Description
              Tina Sacks?is?assistant professor at?the School of Social Welfare. Her fields of interest include racial disparities in health;?social determinants of health; race, class and gender; and poverty and inequality.
Prior to joining Berkeley Social Welfare,?Dr. Sacks spent nearly a decade in federal service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where she honed her macro-practice skills in public health and social work. Her vast experience includes?serving as?special assistant to the director of the CDC, legislative director at the Baltimore City Health Department as well as executive director of the?Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics.