Katelyn Jetelina
Epidemiologist and Scientific Communicator
Charles M. and Martha Hitchcock Lectures
October 7, 2025 — 4:10 pmChevron Auditorium, International House — UC Berkeley Campus
About these lectures How to Make the Invisible Visible Tuesday, October 7, 2025 International House, Chevron Auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA Public health often works behind the scenes—preventing illness, protecting communities, and generating research that too often stays hidden … Continued
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How to Make the Invisible Visible
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
International House, Chevron Auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Public health often works behind the scenes—preventing illness, protecting communities, and generating research that too often stays hidden behind paywalls. In a world of eroding trust and rising falsehoods, this lecture explores how we can make the value of public health visible: by telling better stories with data, making science more accessible, and ensuring communities see themselves in the work before, during, and after crisis.
Fireside Chat: The Squiggly Line Career
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
International House, Chevron Auditorium, 2299 Piedmont Avenue, Berkeley, CA
Join a candid conversation about navigating a nonlinear, “squiggly line” career in science and public health. We’ll explore challenges of science communication within academia—from cultural resistance to misaligned incentives—and why so much vital research never reaches the public. We’ll also discuss the growing opportunities for scientists both within and beyond academia, and what needs to change to better support public impact across all career paths.
About Katelyn Jetelina
Dr. Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist and scientific communicator. She is the co-founder of the non-profit Health Trust Initiative, an adjunct professor at Yale School of Public Health, and former Senior Scientific Advisor to the White House and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, Dr. Jetelina is the publisher of Your Local Epidemiologist- a public health newsletter that “translates” ever-evolving science to the public, reaching over 500 million views in over 133 countries. Dr. Jetelina has received numerous national awards, including recently being named a TIME100 Most Influential Person in Health. Katelyn resides with her husband and two toddlers in San Diego, California.