Faculty

Primary Faculty

Jennifer Smith, assistant professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Jennifer L. Smith, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease


Jennifer Velloza, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Implementation Science
  • Infectious Disease
  • Lifecourse

Research Interests:
  • Global mental health, HIV/AIDS, adolescent health, health equity, community-engaged research, implementation science, mixed methods


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


Secondary Faculty

Nisha Acharya, MD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • design and implementation of clinical trials to determine the optimal treatment for uveitis and ocular inflammatory siseases


Susan Buchbinder, professor at UCSF

Susan Buchbinder, MD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Developing, evaluating, and implementing strategies likely to have the greatest impact in preventing new HIV infections


Adithya Cattamanchi, MD, MAS
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Implementation Science
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Tuberculosis, Lung Disease, Health Disparities, Implementation Science


Judy Hahn, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Judith Hahn, PhD, MA
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • The use of TB prophylaxis in HIV/TB co-infected alcohol users, as well as interventions to reduce drinking and increase antiretroviral therapy adherence


Hacsi Horvath, MA
Fellow
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Medical ethics, HIV/AIDS, emerging infectious diseases, neglected tropical diseases, systematic reviews


Thomas Lietman, professor at UCSf

Thomas Lietman, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • trachoma


Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Implementation Science
  • Infectious Disease
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • reducing healthcare disparities among racially diverse populations with severe mental illness, advancement of women and minorities within medicine


Saam Morshed, associate professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Saam Morshed, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Orthopaedics, trauma, post-traumatic arthritis


Patrick Phillips, PhD, MS, MA
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Tuberculosis, clinical trial design, clinical trials, adaptive trial designs, trials methodology


Mark Seielstad, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Mark Seielstad, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • The interface of genetic epidemiology and population/anthropological genetics


Emeritus Faculty

Caryn Bern, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & biostatistics

Caryn Bern, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

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


Richard Feachem, professor at UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences

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

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Malaria


Sarah Macfarlane, professor emerita at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Sarah Macfarlane, PhD, MS
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Maternal and child health and nutrition, health workforce development, and strengthening information and surveillance systems


Dominic Montagu, DrPH, MPH, MBA
Professor
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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


Edward Murphy, professor at UCSF

Edward L. Murphy, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Viral epidemiology as applied to transfusion safety and global health


Dennis Osmond, PhD, MA
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Infectious Disease


Paul Volberding, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Global Health
  • Implementation Science
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • HIV/AIDS, HIV-related malignancies, antiretroviral therapy, oncology, global health, health disparities, health policy


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