Faculty

Primary Faculty

Isabel Elaine Allen

Isabel Elaine Allen, PhD, MS
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Machine Learning
  • Research Methods in Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Analytics & Data Visualization, Meta-analysis & synthesis research, Clinical Research Design & Analysis, Biometrics, Biostatistics, big data, data analysis, data display, data science, data visualization, machine learning, patient-generated health data, patient-reported outcome measures


Margaret Handley, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Margaret Handley, PhD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Global Health
  • Implementation Science
  • Lifecourse
  • Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
  • Research Methods in Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Intervention design, linking public health and primary care interventions to address health disparities, implementation and dissemination sciences, chronic disease prevention, safety net innovation, public health literacy, migration and health/trans-national health, and environmental pollution


Michael Kohn, professor in UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Michael A. Kohn, MD, MPP
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
  • Machine Learning
  • Research Methods in Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Diagnostic and prognostic testing for stroke, myocardial infarction, sepsis, and other emergency conditions; expert on database management for clinical research


Jeffrey Martin, professor at UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Jeffrey N. Martin, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease
  • Research Methods in Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Kaposi's sarcoma, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, HIV infection, cervical cancer, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, International research, education in clinical and epidemiological research, mentoring junior faculty or trainees, public health, global health, Africa


Paul Wesson, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease
  • Research Methods in Epidemiology
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • HIV, health disparities, surveillance, population size estimation, sampling methods, social determinants, intersectionality


Fan Xia, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Research Methods in Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • developing statistical methods in causal inference; causal mediation analysis; cluster randomized trials/stepped wedge trials to solve health research problems, including Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's related disorders, HIV, and COVID-19.


Secondary Faculty

Willa Brenowitz, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
  • Lifecourse
  • Research Methods in Epidemiology
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, role of sensory impairments and other chronic diseases in brain aging, social determinants of health, causal inference methods


Emeritus Faculty

Elaine Allen

Isabel Elaine Allen, PhD, MS
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Machine Learning
  • Research Methods in Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Analytics & Data Visualization, Meta-analysis & synthesis research, Clinical Research Design & Analysis, Biometrics, Biostatistics, big data, data analysis, data display, data science, data visualization, machine learning, patient-generated health data, patient-reported outcome measures