Liza Lutzker, MPH (she/her) is research lead in injury epidemiology with UC Berkeley SafeTREC and a doctoral student in epidemiology at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Liza earned a B.A. with majors in biology and philosophy from Amherst College and an MPH in epidemiology from the Yale School of Public Health. She has worked widely across the field of environmental and occupational epidemiology, including at both the Massachusetts and California Departments of Public Health, and for the last 10 years in the environmental health sciences division at the Berkeley...
Karen Nguyen Vo (they and she) is the communications coordinator for the UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) and supports communications efforts for SafeTREC's research, data tools, programming, and education. Prior to joining SafeTREC, Karen produced various communications — including news, research, and feature stories — for the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS), UC Berkeley student newspaper The Daily Californian, and the Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program. Karen...
Krista Nordback is a senior research associate at the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center with an additional appointment as a research data analyst at UC Berkeley SafeTREC. Her work focuses on bicycle and pedestrian traffic and safety. She has researched non-motorized traffic counting technologies and programs for Colorado, Michigan, Oregon, California, and Washington State departments of transportation as well as multiple cities and regions around North America. She currently serves as the chair of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Bicycle...
Fiona Norton is a research data analyst at UC Berkeley SafeTREC where she supports multiple ongoing research projects.
She holds a B.S. in business administration with a concentration in quantitative analysis and an M.S. in quantitative economics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Lucia Ornelas is a program manager at UC Berkeley SafeTREC where she supports the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program and Street Story. Prior to joining SafeTREC, she worked with government and non-profit agencies to provide community outreach and education in infectious disease prevention and harm reduction programs. Through her public health work, she is committed to advancing social justice and racial and health equity.
Lucia holds a Master of Public Health from San José State University and a Bachelor of Science in health sciences and community health from CSU East...
SangHyouk Oum is the associate director at UC Berkeley SafeTREC. SangHyouk has been working on creating and managing various web tools for transportation safety, which include the Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS), California Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) Tracking Tool, California Tribal Data Viewer, Street Story, etc. His areas of expertise are transportation safety data, GIS analysis, and web programming.
Jessica Prasad is a program coordinator at the UC Berkeley Safe Transporation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC), where she supports community-engaged transportation safety programs focused on pedestrian and bicyclist safety and the Safe System Approach.
She has worked across local government, nonprofit, consulting, and private-sector settings, leading and supporting complex urban planning, housing, and mobility infrastructure projects throughout the Bay Area. She holds a Master of Urban and Regional Planning, with a specialization in Community Design and...
Dr. Matthew Raifman is the research lead in policy and autonomous vehicles at UC Berkeley SafeTREC. His expertise focuses on estimating the co-benefits of sustainable transportation, with academic experience modeling transport-related physical activity, estimating the health effects of air pollution, and quantifying disparities in traffic fatalities by race/ethnicity. At SafeTREC, his research focuses on understanding how the changing composition of the passenger vehicle fleet impacts incidence of traffic fatalities, unpacking how automated vehicles may affect road safety, and exploring novel...
Glenn Shor retired as a research and policy advisor at CalOSHA, California Department of Industrial Relations in December 2019. He managed California/BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries program, and worked with Workers’ Compensation Information System (WCIS). From 2010 to 2012, he was on loan as special assistant to the assistant secretary of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, US Department of Labor, Washington D.C. He served in several positions in California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) including project manager, chief of policy and legislation, and...
Megan Wier, MPH, is an assistant director with the Oakland Department of Transportation (OakDOT), with a portfolio that includes delivering large capital projects, planning and policy initiatives, parking management, abandoned auto enforcement, innovative mobility, an equity-driven paving program, and near-term safety measures prioritized to advance safety, equity, sustainability, and transparent governance in the City of Oakland. Prior to starting at OakDOT in early 2020, Megan was the director of the Program on Health, Equity and Sustainability at the San Francisco Department of Public...
