Primary Faculty
Patience Afulani, PhD, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, 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
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Chagas disease, visceral leishmaniasis, pathogenesis, diagnosis
Ingrid Chen, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Malaria
Nadia Diamond-Smith, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, 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
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Health policy, financing, and management of health care systems
Margaret Handley, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Research 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
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Global Health
- Social 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
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- Malaria control and elimination, diagnostics, surveillance, mass drug administration, pediatric infectious diseases, clinical trials, operational research
Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, PhD, MS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, 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
Rachel King, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
Christina Lindan, MD, MS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- 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
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- 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
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Research 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
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Global Health
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Health disparities, race/ethnicity, pathway programs, social entrepreneurship, global health
Ali Mirzazadeh, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- HIV/AIDS
Meghan Morris, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious 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 homelessness and health among people who use drugs; qualitative and quantitative research methods including dyadic research methods.
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
Travis Porco, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Trachoma, disease outbreaks, mathematical analysis of disease transmission
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
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
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
Jennifer L. Smith, PhD, MSc
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
Jacqueline Torres, MPH, MS, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Global Health
- Lifecourse
- 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
Jennifer Velloza, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- Global mental health, HIV/AIDS, adolescent health, health equity, community-engaged research, implementation science, mixed methods