Primary Faculty

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

Suzanne Dufault, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Biostatistics
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- clinical trials, Bayesian methods, simulation studies, dengue, tuberculosis, reproducible research

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

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

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


Rosalyn Plotzker, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- anal cancer, sexually transmitted infections, congenital syphilis

Travis Porco, PhD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Trachoma, disease outbreaks, mathematical analysis of disease transmission

Eva Raphael, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- 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
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

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

Paul Wesson, PhD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- HIV, health disparities, surveillance, population size estimation, sampling methods, social determinants, intersectionality
Secondary Faculty

Nisha Acharya, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Infectious Disease
- design and implementation of clinical trials to determine the optimal treatment for uveitis and ocular inflammatory siseases

Susan Buchbinder, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Infectious Disease
- Developing, evaluating, and implementing strategies likely to have the greatest impact in preventing new HIV infections

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

Judith Hahn, PhD, MA
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious 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
Fellow
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Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Medical ethics, HIV/AIDS, emerging infectious diseases, neglected tropical diseases, systematic reviews