Awards & Honors
Dr. Bernie has been honored as the following, among many others:
San Francisco Business Times Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business
Issued by San Francisco Business Times · Sep 2023
We Are Family Foundation Global Frontliner Award
Issued by We Are Family Foundation · Nov 2020
Echoing Green Global Fellow
Issued by Echoing Green · Oct 2022
Voices for Change Awardee: Inclusive Community Development
Issued by The California Endowment · Oct 2020
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Award for Excellence in Social Mission in Health Professions Education: Rising Star
Issued by Milken Institute for Public Health · Mar 2022
Top 30 Under 30 Thinkers in Policy and Social Justice
Issued by Pacific Standard Magazine · Jan 2017
Global Solutions’ Initiative Young Global Changer
Issued by World Policy Forum · Feb 2020
U.S. Philippines Embassy Filipino Young Leaders Program Delegate
Issued by Filipino Young Leaders Program · Nov 2019
Foundations for Change: Yamashita Prize for Outstanding Social Change Activist in California
Issued by UC Berkeley Institute for the Study for Societal Issues · Feb 2020
Dalai Lama Global Fellow
Issued by Dalai Lama Fellowship Foundation · Apr 2019
Top Students Who Rocked Public Health
Issued by Journal of Public Health Management and Practice · Dec 2019
40 Under 40 Leaders in Minority Health
Issued by National Minority Quality Forum · Feb 2019
UCSF Dean's Prize for Outstanding Medical Research in Health and Society
Issued by UCSF School of Medicine · Dec 2018
American Public Health Association Outstanding Student Author: Maternal Child Health
Issued by American Public Health Association · Nov 2018
Clinton Global Initiative University Alumni Honor Roll
Issued by the Clinton Foundation · Oct 2018
Johnson & Johnson One Young World Health Global Scholar
Issued by One Young World · April 2018
Dr. Felix Agcaoili Memorial Scholarship Award
Issued by Philippine Medical Society of Northern California · Apr 2018
California Senate District 29 Woman of the Year: Future Non-Profit Leader
Issued by California Senate District 29 · Mar 2018
Benjamin Franklin Legacy Prize in Service
Issued by The Creativity Foundation · Jan 2016
Fulbright-Nehru Research Scholarship
Issued by J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board · Jan 2016
Glamour Magazine College Women of the Year Winner
Issued by Glamour Magazine · Mar 2016
Albert F. Schweitzer San Francisco Bay Area Fellow
Issued by Albert Schweitzer Fellowship · Apr 2018
AAMC Herbert W. Nickens Scholar
Issued by American Association of Medical Colleges · Aug 2020
Inc Magazine's 22 Amazingly Inspirational Female Undergraduates
Issued by Inc Magazine · Jan 2015
Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations Award
Issued by The Harvard Foundation · May 2016
Harvard-Cambridge Exchange Fellowship
Issued by Harvard-Cambridge Joint Centre for History and Economics · Jan 2015
Business Insider 19 Most Impressive Harvard Students
Issued by Business Insider · Mar 2014