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Caryn Bern, MD, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Chagas disease, visceral leishmaniasis, pathogenesis, diagnosis
Ingrid Chen, PhD
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Malaria
Michelle Hsiang, MD, MSc
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- HIV/AIDS
Meghan Morris, PhD, MPH
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- 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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- 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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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
Jennifer Velloza, PhD, MPH
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- 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