Primary Faculty
Patience Afulani, PhD, MD, MPH
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- Global HealthImplementation ScienceLifecourseReproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health, health equity, quality of care, person-centered care, respectful maternity care, global health, implementation science, food security, migrant health, minority health
Caryn Bern, MD, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Chagas disease, visceral leishmaniasis, pathogenesis, diagnosis
Ingrid Chen, PhD
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Malaria
Nadia Diamond-Smith, PhD, MS
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- Global HealthLifecourseReproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Maternal and child health in the developing world with a focus on gender inequality/women's empowerment, family planning and abortion and nutrition in the preconception and pregnancy period
Neelam Feachem, MS
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- Global Health
- Health policy, financing, and management of health care systems
Margaret Handley, PhD, MPH
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- Clinical Epidemiology and MethodsGlobal HealthImplementation ScienceLifecourseReproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal EpidemiologyResearch Methods in Epidemiology
- Intervention design, linking public health and primary care interventions to address health disparities, implementation and dissemination sciences, chronic disease prevention, safety net innovation, public health literacy, migration and health/trans-national health, and environmental pollution
Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD
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- Cancer EpidemiologyEnvironmental and Occupational EpidemiologyGlobal HealthSocial Epidemiology
- Robert Hiatt is Associate Director for Population Science at Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. His research interests include: cancer epidemiology, especially breast cancer, cancer prevention & screening, health inequities, health services & outcomes research, social determinants of cancer, environmental health research, environmental exposures in early development related to cancer, mathematical modeling of cancer, global health science
Michelle Hsiang, MD, MSc
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- Clinical Epidemiology and MethodsGlobal HealthImplementation ScienceInfectious Disease
- Malaria control and elimination, diagnostics, surveillance, mass drug administration, pediatric infectious diseases, clinical trials, operational research
Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, PhD, MS
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- Global HealthInfectious DiseaseLifecourseReproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- 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
Dan Kelly, MD
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- Clinical Epidemiology and MethodsGlobal HealthInfectious DiseaseLifecourseSocial Epidemiology
- Emerging infectious diseases; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; Ebola virus; natural history studies of acute and post-acute infection; causal determinants; quasi-experimental studies; mathematical modeling of infectious disease; global health and research capacity building
Rachel King, PhD
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
Christina Lindan, MD, MS
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- Global Health
- 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, MD, DrPH
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- Global Health
- 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 N. Martin, MD, MPH
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- Cancer EpidemiologyClinical Epidemiology and MethodsGlobal HealthInfectious DiseaseResearch Methods in Epidemiology
- 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
Kala Mehta, DSc, MPH
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- Epidemiology of AgingGlobal HealthLifecourseReproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Health disparities, race/ethnicity, pathway programs, social entrepreneurship, global health
Ali Mirzazadeh, MD, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- HIV/AIDS
Meghan Morris, PhD, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- 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 criminal justice systems and health among people who use drugs
Pamela Murnane, PhD, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious DiseaseReproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- HIV, maternal and infant health, treatment adherence, global health, implementation science
Travis Porco, PhD, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Trachoma, disease outbreaks, mathematical analysis of disease transmission
George Rutherford, III, MD
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- Global HealthInfectious 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
Jaime Sepúlveda, MD, DrSc, MSc, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious 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
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
Jennifer L. Smith, PhD, MSc
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
Jacqueline Torres, MPH, MS, PhD
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- Epidemiology of AgingGlobal HealthLifecourse
- Social and migration-related determinants of health and aging in the US and Latin America; health effects of immigration policy across the life-course; health disparities; family dynamics and health