Primary Faculty
Patience Afulani, PhD, MD, MPH
Assistant 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
Alexis Beatty, MD, MAS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Implementation Science
- Cardiovascular disease, cardiac rehabilitation, health disparities, digital health, implementation science
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Implementation Science
- Cardiovascular disease, health disparities, health of young adults, chronic disease prevention, kidney disease, hypertension, implementation science, simulation modeling
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
Michelle Hsiang, MD, MSc
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
Nooshin Razani, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Implementation Science
- Social Epidemiology
- Pediatric mental health, family and community health, access to greenspace, outdoor play, pediatric resilience
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
Justin White, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Lifecourse
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- Health economics, behavioral risk factors, tobacco use, global health policy, behavioral economics, applied econometrics, impact evaluation
Secondary Faculty
Deborah Barnes, PhD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Implementation Science
- Older adults, persons with physical disability, persons with mental illness, cognitive impairment/dementia, cognitive function
Adithya Cattamanchi, MD, MAS
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- Tuberculosis, Lung Disease, Health Disparities, Implementation Science
Christine Dehlendorf, MD
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Implementation Science
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- contraceptive counseling and family planning disparities
Courtney Lyles, PhD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Implementation Science
- Dr. Lyles’ research strives to design, evaluate, and disseminate digital health solutions that work for all patients, particularly the most vulnerable. Her work investigates the most effective ways to improve digital health design and increase digital access and skills by leveraging implementation science and population health approaches. She leads the DEB Digital Health Initiative and is a co-PI of the UCSF Population Health Data Initiative.
Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- Social Epidemiology
- reducing healthcare disparities among racially diverse populations with severe mental illness, advancement of women and minorities within medicine
Urmimala Sarkar, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Implementation Science
- Social Epidemiology
- Health equity, patient safety, implementation science, digital health, social media, cancer survivorship, and health information technology
George Sawaya, MD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Implementation Science
- cancer screening with particular interest in patient-centered and economic effects of various screening strategies
Emeritus Faculty
Charles McCulloch, PhD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Implementation Science
- Implementation Science, International public health, P4P, Audit and feedback, mHealth
Paul Volberding, MD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Global Health
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- HIV/AIDS, HIV-related malignancies, antiretroviral therapy, oncology, global health, health disparities, health policy
Postdoc
Hélène Aschmann, PhD
Postdoc
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Implementation Science
- Infectious Disease
- Informing patient-centered care, quantitative benefit-harm assessments, patient preferences, preventive treatment for latent tuberculosis