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Amy Pickering is the Blum Center Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty Practice and an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. With over 15 years of experience, her research focuses on multiple disciplines including engineering, economics, microbiology, and epidemiology to identify low-cost, scalable interventions that interrupt disease transmission in low-income countries. Her work emphasizes environmental surveillance through innovative methods such as soil sampling and sewage analysis to monitor infectious disease trends in communities. Pickering’s lab is also involved in designing and scaling water, sanitation, and hygiene technologies to enhance access to safe drinking water, such as implementing passive chlorination systems. Additionally, her research addresses the intersection of infectious diseases and the human-environment interface, employing advanced metagenomic methodologies to track pathogen transmission and antibiotic resistance across humans, animals, and the environment.
The Mathematics Subject GRE is required for the Fall 2026 admissions cycle. General GRE is optional.