Shelley Martin

Shelley is the Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Centre for Community Wellness at the University of California, Berkeley.

She joined the Centre in 1990 after an extensive career in health promotion and community development that included national HIV/AIDS prevention, improving access to health care for rural Americans, and developing the world famous model Head Start. In Shelley's role at Berkeley, she provides leadership for community-driven program and resource development leading to the production of the Center's accessible and user-friendly publications, a number of which have been translated into other languages for use around the world, and whose model has now been adapted in Australia.