Ann Keller is the Interim Chair of the Othering & Belonging Institute's Diversity and Democracy cluster and Associate Professor of Health Politics and Policy at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Keller received her PhD in political science from Berkeley. Focusing on issues in healthcare, public health, emerging technologies, and the environment, Keller studies controversies stemming from reliance on science and expertise in a democracy. Keller’s book, Science in Environmental Policy: The Politics of Objective Advice won the 2011 Don K. Price Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book in Science and Technology Politics. Keller is the recipient of multiple NSF awards funding research on topics such as pandemic response and regulation of CRISPR/Cas-9 and autonomous vehicle technologies. Currently, Keller is working on a book that examines the ideological battles over public sector capacity that shaped the US civil service from 1883 to the present.
