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Adam Bennett, PhD, MA
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Malaria, surveillance, impact evaluation and spatial epidemiology
Caryn Bern, MD, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Chagas disease, visceral leishmaniasis, pathogenesis, diagnosis
Joelle Brown, PhD, MPH
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- Global HealthImplementation ScienceInfectious DiseaseReproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Implementation Science, reproductive health, HIV prevention, safer conception, sub-Saharan Africa, prevention of sexually transmitted infections, HPV, HSV-2, clinical trials, microbicides, vaccines, intravaginal practices
Ingrid Chen, PhD
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Malaria
Richard Feachem, DSc, PhD
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Malaria
Roly Gosling, PhD, MS
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- malaria
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
Rachel King, PhD
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
Ali Mirzazadeh, MD, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- HIV/AIDS
Dominic Montagu, DrPH, MPH, MBA
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- Global HealthInfectious DiseaseLifecourseReproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Maternal health, family planning, and abortion services in low- and middle-income countries, measurement, people-centered care, quality improvement
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
Travis Porco, PhD, MPH
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Trachoma, disease outbreaks, mathematical analysis of disease transmission
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
Hugh Sturrock
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Spatial epidemiology, malaria
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
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
Saam Morshed, MD, PhD
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- Global HealthInfectious Disease
- Orthopaedics, trauma, post-traumatic arthritis