Faculty

Primary Faculty

Bruce Agins, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Bruce Agins, MD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease


Caryn Bern, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & biostatistics

Caryn Bern, MD, MPH
Professor (recall)
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Chagas disease, visceral leishmaniasis, pathogenesis, diagnosis


Joelle Brown

Joelle Brown, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Implementation Science
  • Infectious Disease
  • Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Reproductive health, Health economics, HIV/AIDS, Implementation science, Infectious disease, Maternal health, Women's health


Ingrid Chen, assistant professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Institute for Global Health Sciences

Ingrid Chen, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Malaria


Suzanne Dufault, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • clinical trials, Bayesian methods, simulation studies, dengue, tuberculosis, reproducible research

Faculty Spotlight Interview


Richard Feachem, professor at UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences

Richard Feachem, KBE, PhD, DSc(Med)
Professor (recall)
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Malaria


Michelle Hsiang, MD, MS
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Global Health
  • Implementation Science
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Malaria control and elimination, diagnostics, surveillance, mass drug administration, pediatric infectious diseases, clinical trials, operational research


Sophie Huddart

Sophie Huddart, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Global Health, Tuberculosis, Quality of Care, Patient Outcomes, Case Fatality, Simulation


Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski is associate professor at UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, PhD, MS
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease
  • Lifecourse
  • Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Tools, tests and technologies that can help identify pregnant women and babies at increased risk for preterm birth and associated birth defects and developmental delays


Rachel King, assistant professor at UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences

Rachel King, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease


Krysia Lindan, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Krysia Lindan, MD, MS
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Implementation Science, people with limited English proficiency, socioeconomically marginalized groups, migrants/refugees, Behavioral interventions; public health advocacy; capacity building, HIV/AIDS, STIs, IDU, female commercial sex workers


Mohsen Malekinejad, assistant professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Mohsen Malekinejad, MD, DrPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Adverse childhood experiences, blood-borne infections, evidence-based medicine, evidence translation for health policy, HIV/AIDS, global health, sampling methods for hard-to-reach population, sexually transmitted infections, substance use, systematic reviews


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


Ali Mirzazadeh, assistant professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Institute for Global health Sciences

Ali Mirzazadeh, PhD, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • HIV/AIDS


Dominic Montagu

Dominic Montagu, DrPH, MPH, MBA
Professor (recall)
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease
  • Lifecourse
  • Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Implementation Science, Health Service Quality, Patient Experience, Maternal and Neonatal Health, Family Planning, Abortion and Post-Abortion Care, Children/youth, Socioeconomically marginalized groups, International (public health), Policy-making institute or agency, Education, Social marketing, Policy advocacy, Web site, tuberculosis, malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia, safe delivery, Interdisciplinary research collaboration, Works-in-progress seminars, Implementation & dissemination science listservs


Meghan Morris, assistant professor at UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Meghan Morris, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Social determinants of health within persons who use drugs, including HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection; HIV and HCV prevention; the influence of interpersonal factors on disease transmission; the intersection of homelessness and health among people who use drugs; qualitative and quantitative research methods including dyadic research methods.


Pamela Murnane, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease
  • Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • HIV, maternal and infant health, treatment adherence, global health, implementation science


John Peabody, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

John Peabody, MD, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease


Rosalyn Plotzker, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease
  • Lifecourse

Research Interests:
  • anal cancer, sexually transmitted infections, congenital syphilis

Faculty Spotlight Interview


Travis Porco, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Travis Porco, PhD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Trachoma, disease outbreaks, mathematical analysis of disease transmission


Eva Raphael, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Infectious Disease
  • Lifecourse

Research Interests:
  • drug-resistant infections, community risk factors for infections, urinary tract infections, using molecular microbiology, social, and spatial epidemiology methods to address inequities in community-onset infections


Mike Reid

Mike Reid, MD, MPH, MA
Associate Professor

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Global Health, HIV, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tuberculosis, COVID-19, Pandemic Preparedness, Global Health Security


George Rutherford, professor at UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences

George Rutherford, III, MD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Epidemiology and prevention of infectious and tropical diseases, with a primary focus on HIV/AIDS; epidemiology of tuberculosis in California, the prevention of childhood injury, immunizations, Hepatitis C, evidence-based medicine and public policy, preterm birth, implementation science and bioterrorism


Jaime Sepulveda, Executive Director of the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences

Jaime Sepúlveda, MD, DrSc, MSc, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • AIDS, STIs, diarrhea, cholera, geographical information systems, epidemiologic surveillance systems, ethics and health, health system reform, national health surveys, nutrition and health, vaccines, immunizations, implementation sciences, neglected tropical diseases, tobacco control, maternal health, child health


Starley Shade, PhD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease


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