Abby M. Rincón, MPH

Instructor, Community Health Worker Program 
 

As of fall semester 2002, Abby became the instructor for the Community Health Worker class at City College in San Francisco. While beginning her career in nursing, she loved prevention work and went on to get her masters in public health at UC Berkeley. She brings over 20 years of professional experience in the field of public health and specifically community health education. She has worked as a health educator serving high-risk adolescents in San José as well as migrant farm workers in northern California. Currently, she is the Director of Community Health Promotion at UC Berkeley’s University Health Service. There she manages several programs that serve the student body and the greater community of Berkeley. She has enjoyed teaching public health courses for undergraduates and graduates at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University. Abby’s philosophy of teaching is that everyone is a teacher and everyone is a student.