Primary Faculty
Patience Afulani, PhD, MD, MPH
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- Global HealthImplementation ScienceReproductive, 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
Adam Bennett, PhD, MA
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Malaria, surveillance, impact evaluation and spatial epidemiology
Caryn Bern, MD, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Chagas disease, visceral leishmaniasis, pathogenesis, diagnosis
Joelle Brown, PhD, MPH
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- Global HealthImplementation ScienceInfectious DiseaseReproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Implementation Science, reproductive health, HIV prevention, safer conception, sub-Saharan Africa, prevention of sexually transmitted infections, HPV, HSV-2, clinical trials, microbicides, vaccines, intravaginal practices
Brittany Chambers, PhD
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- Global HealthReproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal EpidemiologySocial Epidemiology
Ingrid Chen, PhD
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Malaria
Nadia Diamond-Smith, PhD, MS
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- Global HealthReproductive, 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
Richard Feachem, DSc, PhD
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Malaria
Roly Gosling, PhD, MS
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- malaria
Margaret Handley, PhD, MPH
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- Clinical Epidemiology and MethodsGlobal HealthImplementation ScienceReproductive, 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
- Cancer epidemiology, especially breast cancer, cancer prevention and screening, health services and outcomes research, the social determinants of cancer, and environmental exposures in early development related to cancer
Dean Jamison
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- Global Health
- Health economics, health policy
Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, PhD, MS
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- Global HealthInfectious DiseaseReproductive, 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
James G. Kahn, MD, MPH
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- Clinical Epidemiology and MethodsGlobal Health
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 HealthResearch Methods in Epidemiology
- Implementation Science, Socioeconomically marginalized groups, Global health, HIV infection
Ali Mirzazadeh, MD, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- HIV/AIDS
Dominic Montagu, DrPH, MPH, MBA
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- Global HealthInfectious DiseaseReproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Maternal health, family planning, and abortion services in low- and middle-income countries, measurement, people-centered care, quality improvement
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
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