Primary Faculty
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Patience Afulani, PhD, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
[email protected]
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
![Bruce Agins, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/Bruce%20Agins.jpg?itok=yeFf9VHa)
![Caryn Bern, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/Caryn%20Bern.jpg?itok=j_kOcjxI)
Caryn Bern, MD, MPH
Professor (recall)
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Chagas disease, visceral leishmaniasis, pathogenesis, diagnosis
![Joelle Brown](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/joelle-brown.jpg?itok=OUH45Mn5)
Joelle Brown, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Reproductive health, Health economics, HIV/AIDS, Implementation science, Infectious disease, Maternal health, Women's health
![Ingrid Chen, assistant professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Institute for Global Health Sciences](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/IngridChen_0.jpg?itok=0kgB6t1o)
Ingrid Chen, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Malaria
![Nadia Diamond-Smith, assistant professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/Nadia42-crop.jpg?itok=fgtemzI-)
Nadia Diamond-Smith, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
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
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Suzanne Dufault, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- clinical trials, Bayesian methods, simulation studies, dengue, tuberculosis, reproducible research
![Neelam Feachem, professor at UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/Neelam%20Feachem.jpg?itok=fVBrRfh8)
Neelam Sekhri Feachem, MS
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Health policy, financing, and management of health care systems
![Richard Feachem, professor at UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/Richard-Feachem_0.jpg?itok=_i9Q5l5p)
Richard Feachem, KBE, PhD, DSc(Med)
Professor (recall)
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Malaria
![Margaret Handley, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/margaret-handley.jpg?itok=OXAQ8Afi)
Margaret Handley, PhD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]
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 Hiatt](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/hiatt.jpg?itok=1zEt9y3o)
Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD
Professor
[email protected]
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
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Michelle Hsiang, MD, MS
Associate Professor
[email protected]
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
![Sophie Huddart](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/sophie-huddart.jpg?itok=I0f7gK9F)
Sophie Huddart, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Global Health, Tuberculosis, Quality of Care, Patient Outcomes, Case Fatality, Simulation
![Lauren Hunt](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/lauren-hunt.jpg?itok=Y--Cpwp6)
Lauren Hunt, PhD, RN, FNP
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- hospice, palliative care, older adults, dementia, symptoms, policy, secondary dataset analysis
![Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski is associate professor at UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/laura.jelliffe-pawlowski.jpg?itok=PPKh2DZA)
Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, PhD, MS
Professor
[email protected]
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
![James Kahn](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/james-kahn.jpg?itok=fuTR58jd)
James Kahn, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Health economics, Epidemiology & surveillance, HIV/AIDS, Pharmacology, Substance abuse, Surgery, anesthesia & pain, Tuberculosis
![Rachel King, assistant professor at UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/rachel-king.jpg?itok=qZ5D3Fyq)
Rachel King, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
![Krysia Lindan, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/KrysiaLindan.jpg?itok=98KFZKoU)
Krysia Lindan, MD, MS
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- 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, assistant professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/Mohsen%20Malekinejad.jpg?itok=uaML6H7H)
Mohsen Malekinejad, MD, DrPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- 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 Martin, professor at UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/Jeff-Martin.jpg?itok=GOqjIhjW)
Jeffrey N. Martin, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]
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, associate professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/kalamehta_0.jpg?itok=TGxCUK2G)
Kala Mehta, DSc, MPH
Associate Professor
[email protected]
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, assistant professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Institute for Global health Sciences](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/Ali3.jpg?itok=tR3PPkKw)
Ali Mirzazadeh, PhD, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- HIV/AIDS
![Dominic Montagu](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/Dominic-Montagu_0.jpg?itok=THU-8IZ6)
Dominic Montagu, DrPH, MPH, MBA
Professor (recall)
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Implementation Science, Health Service Quality, Patient Experience, Maternal and Neonatal Health, Family Planning, Abortion and Post-Abortion Care, Children/youth, Socioeconomically marginalized groups, International (public health), Policy-making institute or agency, Education, Social marketing, Policy advocacy, Web site, tuberculosis, malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia, safe delivery, Interdisciplinary research collaboration, Works-in-progress seminars, Implementation & dissemination science listservs
![Meghan Morris, assistant professor at UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/Meghan_Morris180.jpg?itok=U9Lm9Cv5)
Meghan Morris, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
[email protected]
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.
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Pamela Murnane, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- HIV, maternal and infant health, treatment adherence, global health, implementation science