Karen Sokal-Gutierrez

Karen Sokal-Gutierrez

Sokal-Gutierrez M.P.H. ’88 is a clinical professor at Berkeley’s School of Public Health and the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program where she teaches medical students, public health graduate students, and undergraduates. She is a physician trained in pediatrics, preventive medicine, and public health/maternal-child health. Her work focuses on improving early childhood health and reducing health disparities. She has served as a physician in community health clinics, public health program administrator, consultant to child care and preschool programs, and writer for a parenting website. She has worked in global health for over 30 years, including for the past 10 years directing a family of studies on children’s oral health and nutrition in El Salvador, Ecuador, Peru, Vietnam, Nepal and India. She received her B.S. from Yale University, M.D. from UCSF, and M.P.H. from Berkeley; and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.