Primary Faculty
Pamela Murnane, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- HIV, maternal and infant health, treatment adherence, global health, implementation science
Thomas Newman, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Clinical problems in pediatrics, such as jaundice and infections in newborn babies, urinary tract infections and cholesterol screening
Catherine Oldenburg, ScD, MPH
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
Mark J. Pletcher, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- 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
- anal cancer, sexually transmitted infections, congenital syphilis
Katherine Pollard, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Bioinformatics methods for comparative analysis of massive biological datasets, with a focus on genomics and other transformative technologies
Travis Porco, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- 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
- Randomized trials, bias, health policy
Eva Raphael, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- 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
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Social Epidemiology
- Pediatric mental health, family and community health, access to greenspace, outdoor play, pediatric resilience
Mike Reid, MD, MPH, MA
Associate Professor
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Global Health, HIV, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tuberculosis, COVID-19, Pandemic Preparedness, Global Health Security
Peggy Reynolds, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Lifecourse
- The role of physical/occupational environmental exposures and windows of susceptibility on cancer risk.
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, III, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- 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
- 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 V. Schwartz, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Lifecourse
- Diabetes, osteoporosis, bone marrow adiposity, dual x-ray absorptiometry, body composition
Mark Segal, PhD
Professor
Recall appointment
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Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Machine Learning
- Bioinformatics, genetics
Jaime Sepúlveda, MD, DrSc, MSc, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- 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
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease