Primary Faculty

Caryn Bern, MD, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Chagas disease, visceral leishmaniasis, pathogenesis, diagnosis

Ingrid Chen, PhD
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Assistant Professor
- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Malaria

Michelle Hsiang, MD, MSc
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Associate Professor
- Clinical Epidemiology and MethodsGlobal HealthImplementation ScienceInfectious Disease
- Malaria control and elimination, diagnostics, surveillance, mass drug administration, pediatric infectious diseases, clinical trials, operational research

Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, PhD, MS
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Associate Professor
- Global HealthInfectious DiseaseLifecourseReproductive, 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

Dan Kelly, MD
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Assistant Professor
- Clinical Epidemiology and MethodsGlobal HealthInfectious DiseaseLifecourseSocial Epidemiology
- Emerging infectious diseases; SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; Ebola virus; natural history studies of acute and post-acute infection; causal determinants; quasi-experimental studies; mathematical modeling of infectious disease; global health and research capacity building

Rachel King, PhD
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease

Jeffrey N. Martin, MD, MPH
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- Cancer EpidemiologyClinical Epidemiology and MethodsGlobal HealthInfectious DiseaseResearch 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

Ali Mirzazadeh, MD, MPH
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Assistant Professor
- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- HIV/AIDS

Meghan Morris, PhD, MPH
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Assistant Professor
- 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

Pamela Murnane, PhD, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious DiseaseReproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- HIV, maternal and infant health, treatment adherence, global health, implementation science


Travis Porco, PhD, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Trachoma, disease outbreaks, mathematical analysis of disease transmission

Eva Raphael, MD, MPH
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Assistant Professor
- Infectious DiseaseLifecourse
- drug-resistant infections, community risk factors for infections, urinary tract infections, using molecular microbiology, social, and spatial epidemiology methods to address inequities in community-onset infections

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

Jaime Sepúlveda, MD, DrSc, MSc, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious 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
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease

Jennifer L. Smith, PhD, MSc
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Assistant Professor
- Global HealthInfectious Disease

Jennifer Velloza, PhD, MPH
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Assistant Professor
- Global HealthImplementation ScienceInfectious DiseaseLifecourse
- Global mental health, HIV/AIDS, adolescent health, health equity, community-engaged research, implementation science, mixed methods

Paul Wesson, PhD
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- Global HealthInfectious DiseaseResearch Methods in EpidemiologySocial Epidemiology
- HIV, health disparities, surveillance, population size estimation, sampling methods, social determinants, intersectionality
Secondary Faculty

Nisha Acharya, MD
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- Infectious Disease
- design and implementation of clinical trials to determine the optimal treatment for uveitis and ocular inflammatory siseases

Susan Buchbinder, MD
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- Infectious Disease
- Developing, evaluating, and implementing strategies likely to have the greatest impact in preventing new HIV infections

Adithya Cattamanchi, MD, MAS
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- Global HealthImplementation ScienceInfectious Disease
- Tuberculosis, Lung Disease, Health Disparities, Implementation Science

Judith Hahn, PhD, MA
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- The use of TB prophylaxis in HIV/TB co-infected alcohol users, as well as interventions to reduce drinking and increase antiretroviral therapy adherence

Hacsi Horvath, MA
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Medical ethics, HIV/AIDS, emerging infectious diseases, neglected tropical diseases, systematic reviews

Thomas Lietman, MD, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- trachoma