Katrina Sesline, LCSW (she/her) received a Bachelor’s degree in child development from Sacramento State University, and her MSW with a focus on health settings from UC Berkeley. She is currently pursuing her MPH at UC Berkeley. Prior to joining ARG, Katrina was a social worker at both Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Stanford Hospital. Her interests center at the intersections of health, mental health, development and trauma. Katrina is currently exploring associations between state‐level … [Read more...]
Research Staff
Randy Dillard
Randy Dillard, MPH, PPSC received a Bachelor’s degree in early childhood education from St. John’s University and his MSW from USC. In 2017, Randy joined the research team at the Roybal Institute on Aging as a research assistant charged with interviewing first responders of the Los Angeles City Fire Department and older adult residents of Los Angeles who requested EMR Services. Since 2018, Randy has been working in the Division of Research at Kaiser Permanente as a field interviewer on the Study … [Read more...]
Anne-Marie Gomes
Anne-Marie Gomes, MPH, is a researcher whose work has primarily centered on health outcomes among adults with various chronic conditions and disabilities. She has worked on projects that evaluated the efficacy of systems of care for children and adults residing in New York State. She has experience with quantitative data working with national and state datasets (BFRSS, MIDUS, NHIS) and qualitative data with focus groups and interviews. Anne-Marie is presently a doctoral candidate in Social … [Read more...]
Joanne Delk
Joanne Delk, MS, is a research associate IV with a Master’s degree in Nutrition from the University of Minnesota. She has experience as a project coordinator on large-scale studies focusing on child and adolescent health (nutrition, physical activity, and tobacco). She was the project coordinator for the Texas Adolescent Tobacco and Marketing Surveillance System (TATAMS), recruiting and following 4,000 Texas youth for four years to generate data for the FDA on youth tobacco behaviors and … [Read more...]
Adrienne Faxio
Adrienne Faxio, BA, is a research associate III with a Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She honed her social science research skills at the University of California, San Francisco’s Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) where she worked for nearly 15 years managing evaluation and research projects addressing adolescent health, school health services, and behavioral and … [Read more...]
Jayla Burton
Jayla Burton, MPH, MS is a research associate II at the Alcohol Research Group. She received her undergraduate degree in health science at the University of Cincinnati and her MPH and MS from the University of San Francisco. She has a passion for advocating for systems change to reducing health disparities especially among historically underrepresented populations through national advocacy and education campaigns. For the past few years she has worked in the arena of women’s health, specifically … [Read more...]
Edwina Williams
Edwina Williams, MPH, is a research associate III with a Master’s degree in Public Health from Brown University. She has experience in collecting and analyzing state-level data on beverage-specific alcohol taxes using individual state revenue reports and the Alcohol Policy Information System from her work with Senior Scientist Bill Kerr. Edwina is also experienced in disparities research through her research on socioeconomic status and alcohol outlet density as indicators for increased risk of … [Read more...]
