Faculty

Primary Faculty

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 Neuhaus, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology of Aging


Michael Nevitt, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Lifecourse


Tom Newman, professor emeritus at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Thomas Newman, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Clinical problems in pediatrics, such as jaundice and infections in newborn babies, urinary tract infections and cholesterol screening


Vasilis Ntranos

Vasilis Ntranos, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Bioinformatics


Catherine Oldenburg, ScD, MPH
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods


Adam Olshen, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Adam Olshen, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Bioinformatics


John Peabody, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

John Peabody, MD, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease


Mark Pletcher, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Mark J. Pletcher, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders

Research Interests:
  • Early life causes of atherosclerosis, clinical decision-making regarding use of preventive medications (statins and anti-hypertensive medications), screening for subclinical cardiovascular disease, use of emerging technology and electronic health record systems to improve health, healthcare system embedded research, digital health, COVID-10


Rosalyn Plotzker, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease
  • Lifecourse

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

Faculty Spotlight Interview


Katie Pollard, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Katherine Pollard, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Bioinformatics

Research Interests:
  • Bioinformatics methods for comparative analysis of massive biological datasets, with a focus on genomics and other transformative technologies


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


Vinayak Prasad, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods

Research Interests:
  • Randomized trials, bias, health policy


Eva Raphael, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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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


Nooshin Razani, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Global Health
  • Implementation Science
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Pediatric mental health, family and community health, access to greenspace, outdoor play, pediatric resilience


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


Peggy Reynolds, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Peggy Reynolds, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
  • Lifecourse

Research Interests:
  • The role of physical/occupational environmental exposures and windows of susceptibility on cancer risk.


Kim Rhoads, associate professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Kim Rhoads, MD, MPH, FACS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology


Neil Risch, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
  • Genetic Epidemiology


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


Aaron Scheffler, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics

Research Interests:
  • high-dimensional data, multi-modal data, correlated data, longitudinal data, Bayesian statistics, machine learning, brain imaging, analysis of electronic health records data, "Big Data"


Ann Schwartz, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Ann V. Schwartz, PhD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Lifecourse

Research Interests:
  • Diabetes, osteoporosis, bone marrow adiposity, dual x-ray absorptiometry, body composition


Mark Segal, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Mark Segal, PhD
Professor
Recall appointment
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Bioinformatics
  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Machine Learning

Research Interests:
  • Bioinformatics, genetics


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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