Meredith Minkler

Meredith Minkler is a Professor of Health and Social Behaviour, and Director of the School of Public Health at University of California, Berkeley.

She has close to 30 years experience working with disadvantaged communities on issues identified by communities themselves, and then using community building, community organising and community-based participatory research to measure results.

Meredith has also published extensively on topics including community organising, community building, health education and behaviour, youth empowerment strategies, social epidemiology, people with disabilities, health start programs and ageing.