Faculty

Primary Faculty

Joan Hilton, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Joan Hilton, DSc, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics


Thomas Hoffman, assistant professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & BIostatistics

Thomas Hoffmann, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Genetic Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Biostatistics, public health, human genetics, statistical genetics, high-dimensional data, statistical computing, machine learning, image classification, age-related hearing impairment, cardiovascular disease, cancer


Thomas Hoffmann

Thomas Hoffmann, PhD, MA
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Machine Learning

Research Interests:
  • Biostatistics, Public health, Human genetics, Statistical genetics, High-dimensional data, Statistical computing, Machine learning, Image classification, Age-related hearing impairment, Cardiovascular disease, Cancer


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


Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Bioinformatics
  • Biostatistics
  • Machine Learning
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Computational epidemiology, health disparities, natural language processing, social media, structural racism, social determinants of health, digital interventions, digital phenotyping, algorithmic bias, societal health


Chiung-Yu Huang, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics

Research Interests:
  • General biostatistics methodology and its application to the biomedical sciences


Sophie Huddart

Sophie Huddart, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health

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


Lauren Hunt

Lauren Hunt, PhD, RN, FNP
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health

Research Interests:
  • hospice, palliative care, older adults, dementia, symptoms, policy, secondary dataset analysis


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


Fei Jiang, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Bioinformatics
  • Biostatistics
  • Machine Learning

Research Interests:
  • machine learning methods; high dimensional models; functional data analysis and their applications in analyzing neurological, image, genetics data; adaptive randomization clinical trials


James Kahn

James Kahn, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health

Research Interests:
  • Health economics, Epidemiology & surveillance, HIV/AIDS, Pharmacology, Substance abuse, Surgery, anesthesia & pain, Tuberculosis


Mi-Ok Kim, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics


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

Rachel King, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease


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


John Kornak, professor in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

John Kornak, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics

Research Interests:
  • Bayesian image analysis in Fourier Space, Bayesian reconstruction of magnetic resonance imaging, statistical image analysis, Bayesian statistics, spatial statistics


Krysia Lindan, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Christina Lindan, MD, MS
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health

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

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


Suzanna Martinez, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Lifecourse
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • The interconnected relationship between sleep, physical activity and diet and as it relates to obesity and cardiometabolic health; food insecurity in higher education; food insecurity as it relates to dementia risk; health equity; minority health; Latino health


Chuck McCulloch

Chuck McCulloch, PhD, MS, MA
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health

Research Interests:
  • Biostatistics, Implementation science, Study design, Interdisciplinary research collaboration, Data Science, Longitudinal and clustered data, big data, data analysis, data visualization, machine learning, patient-reported outcome measures


Kala Mehta, associate professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Kala Mehta, DSc, MPH
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Global Health
  • Lifecourse
  • Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Health disparities, race/ethnicity, pathway programs, social entrepreneurship, global health


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
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health

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


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