Primary Faculty
Patience Afulani, PhD, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
patience.afulani@ucsf.edu
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 (recall)
caryn.bern2@ucsf.edu
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Chagas disease, visceral leishmaniasis, pathogenesis, diagnosis
Joelle Brown, PhD
Associate Professor
joelle.brown@ucsf.edu
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, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Malaria
Nadia Diamond-Smith, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
nadia.diamond-smith@ucsf.edu
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
Suzanne Dufault, PhD
Assistant Professor
suzanne.dufault@ucsf.edu
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- clinical trials, Bayesian methods, simulation studies, dengue, tuberculosis, reproducible research
Richard Feachem, KBE, PhD, DSc(Med)
Professor (recall)
richard.feachem@ucsf.edu
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Malaria
Neelam Sekhri Feachem, MS
Associate Professor
neelam.feachem@ucsf.edu
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Health policy, financing, and management of health care systems
Margaret Handley, PhD, MPH
Professor
margaret.handley@ucsf.edu
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
Robert.Hiatt@ucsf.edu
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, MS
Associate Professor
Michelle.Hsiang@ucsf.edu
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, PhD
Assistant Professor
sophie.huddart@ucsf.edu
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Global Health, Tuberculosis, Quality of Care, Patient Outcomes, Case Fatality, Simulation
Lauren Hunt, PhD, RN, FNP
Assistant Professor
lauren.hunt@ucsf.edu
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- hospice, palliative care, older adults, dementia, symptoms, policy, secondary dataset analysis
Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, PhD, MS
Professor
laura.jelliffe@ucsf.edu
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, MD, MPH
Professor
jgkahn@ucsf.edu
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Health economics, Epidemiology & surveillance, HIV/AIDS, Pharmacology, Substance abuse, Surgery, anesthesia & pain, Tuberculosis
Rachel King, PhD
Associate Professor
rachel.king@ucsf.edu
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
Krysia Lindan, MD, MS
Professor
krysia.lindan@ucsf.edu
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, MD, DrPH
Assistant Professor
mmalekinejad@ucsf.edu
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 N. Martin, MD, MPH
Professor
jeffrey.martin@ucsf.edu
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
Kala.Mehta@ucsf.edu
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, PhD, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
ali.mirzazadeh@ucsf.edu
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- HIV/AIDS
Dominic Montagu, DrPH, MPH, MBA
Professor (recall)
dominic.montagu@ucsf.edu
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, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
meghan.morris@ucsf.edu
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
pamela.murnane@ucsf.edu
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- HIV, maternal and infant health, treatment adherence, global health, implementation science