KCBS Radio In Depth Creators & Guests

Dr. Keren Landman is a physician, epidemiologist, and journalist who covers topics in medicine and public health. She is trained in internal medicine and pediatrics with specialties in infectious diseases and clinical microbiology, and served as a disease detective at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As a researcher, she has focused on the prevention and treatment of HIV and malaria in resource-poor countries, and she has worked as a medical epidemiologist and science advisor for a range of public health institutions.Landman received her B.S. in Microbiology from The University of Georgia and her M.D. from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Richard L. Hasen is a legal scholar and expert in legislation, election law, and campaign finance. Currently, he is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Dr. Peter H. Gleick is a hydroclimatologist. Currently, he works at the Pacific Institute in Oakland CA, which he co-founded. His research focuses on conflicts over water resources, water and climate change, development, and human health.Gleick produced some of the earliest work on the links between environmental issues, especially water and climate change, and international security, identifying a long history of conflicts over water resources and the use of water as both a weapon and target of war. He also pioneered the concepts of the soft water path and peak water.Gleick edited the first seven editions of "The World's Water." His first book, "Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water," was published in 2010 and won a Nautilus Book Award.Gleick received his B.S. from Yale University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Energy and Resources from the University of California Berkeley.

Dr. Julia Marcus is an infectious disease epidemiologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, and Adjunct Faculty at The Fenway Institute.Dr. Marcus's research focuses on improving measures to reduce new HIV infections and promote sexual health. Her work on using harm reduction techniques for epidemics has appeared in The Atlantic.Dr. Marcus received her PhD in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research.