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Colette (Coco) Auerswald

Pediatrician; community collaborative youth researcher & advocate; UC, Berkeley School of Public Health Faculty; and mother to two teens.

Colette (Coco), MD, MS, is a physician specialized in adolescent medicine and is dedicated to improving the health of marginalized youth locally and globally through research and advocacy. Her work has focused particularly on the social determinants of homeless youth in San Francisco and street children in Kenya. She is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health where she is the Director of the MS Program for the UC, Berkeley-UC at San Francisco Joint Medical Program.

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