Primary Faculty
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Patience Afulani, PhD, MD, MPH
Associate 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
![Dennis Black](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/DennisBlack_0.jpg?itok=Q0nDvIyj)
Dennis Black, PhD
Professor (recall)
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Lifecourse
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Alison Cohen, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Lifecourse
- Social Epidemiology
- health equity, adolescent and young adult health, social determinants of health, community-based participatory research, program and policy evaluation, environmental health justice, research-practice partnerships
![Mara Decker, assistant professor in UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/Mara%20Decker.jpeg?itok=1_k502Tm)
Mara Decker, DrPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Lifecourse
- Social Epidemiology
- Sexual and reproductive health, youth and adolescents, applied research, social epidemiology, health and empowerment, program evaluation, health disparities, global health and development, demographic change and the environment, human rights, social ecology
![Nadia Diamond-Smith, assistant professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/Nadia42-crop.jpg?itok=fgtemzI-)
Nadia Diamond-Smith, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Maternal and child health in the developing world with a focus on gender inequality/women's empowerment, family planning and abortion and nutrition in the preconception and pregnancy period
![Margaret Handley, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/margaret-handley.jpg?itok=OXAQ8Afi)
Margaret Handley, PhD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]
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
![Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski is associate professor at UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/laura.jelliffe-pawlowski.jpg?itok=PPKh2DZA)
Laura Jelliffe-Pawlowski, PhD, MS
Professor
[email protected]
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
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Suzanna Martinez, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Lifecourse
- Social Epidemiology
- The interconnected relationship between sleep, physical activity and diet and as it relates to obesity and cardiometabolic health; food insecurity in higher education; food insecurity as it relates to dementia risk; health equity; minority health; Latino health
![Kala Mehta, associate professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/kalamehta_0.jpg?itok=TGxCUK2G)
Kala Mehta, DSc, MPH
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Global Health
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Health disparities, race/ethnicity, pathway programs, social entrepreneurship, global health
![Dominic Montagu](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/Dominic-Montagu_0.jpg?itok=THU-8IZ6)
Dominic Montagu, DrPH, MPH, MBA
Professor (recall)
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Implementation Science, Health Service Quality, Patient Experience, Maternal and Neonatal Health, Family Planning, Abortion and Post-Abortion Care, Children/youth, Socioeconomically marginalized groups, International (public health), Policy-making institute or agency, Education, Social marketing, Policy advocacy, Web site, tuberculosis, malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia, safe delivery, Interdisciplinary research collaboration, Works-in-progress seminars, Implementation & dissemination science listservs
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Rosalyn Plotzker, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- anal cancer, sexually transmitted infections, congenital syphilis
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Eva Raphael, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
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
![Peggy Reynolds, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/PeggyReynolds.jpg?itok=nda5W1bM)
Peggy Reynolds, PhD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Cancer Epidemiology
- Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
- Lifecourse
- The role of physical/occupational environmental exposures and windows of susceptibility on cancer risk.
![Ann Schwartz, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/annschwartz3-small.jpg?itok=yDwJjwbI)
Ann V. Schwartz, PhD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Lifecourse
- Diabetes, osteoporosis, bone marrow adiposity, dual x-ray absorptiometry, body composition
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Samira Soleimanpour, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Implementation Science
- Lifecourse
- Social Epidemiology
- school health, child and adolescent health, health equity, child and adolescent mental health, program and policy evaluation, community-based participatory research
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Dara Torgerson, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Bioinformatics
- Biostatistics
- Genetic Epidemiology
- Lifecourse
- Machine Learning
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- Integrative Genomics, Metabolomics, Statistical Genetics, Minority Health, Neonatology, Respiratory Outcomes
![Jacqueline Torres, assistant professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/JackieTorres.jpg?itok=mTa4ppRm)
Jacqueline Torres, MPH, MS, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Global Health
- Lifecourse
- Social and migration-related determinants of health and aging in the US and Latin America; health effects of immigration policy across the life-course; health disparities; family dynamics and health
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Jennifer Velloza, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
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
![Jennifer Yarger](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/jennifer-yarger.jpg?itok=Nua8WD05)
Jennifer Yarger, PhD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- sexual and reproductive health, contraception, sexually transmitted infections, urinary tract infections, adolescent and young adult health, health equity, access to care, telehealth, health insurance, health education, health literacy, program and policy evaluation
Secondary Faculty
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Willa Brenowitz, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Lifecourse
- Research Methods in Epidemiology
- Social Epidemiology
- Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, role of sensory impairments and other chronic diseases in brain aging, social determinants of health, causal inference methods
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Kristine Yaffe, MD
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Epidemiology of Aging
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Lifecourse
- epidemiology of dementia and cognitive aging, modifiable risk factors for dementia, dementia prevention trials
Emeritus Faculty
![Dennis black, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics](https://epibiostat.ucsf.edu/sites/g/files/tkssra2066/f/styles/150x150/public/DennisBlack.jpg?itok=22AlJWm5)
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Dominic Montagu, DrPH, MPH, MBA
Professor
[email protected]
Research Area(s):
- Global Health
- Infectious Disease
- Lifecourse
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Implementation Science, Health Service Quality, Patient Experience, Maternal and Neonatal Health, Family Planning, Abortion and Post-Abortion Care, Children/youth, Socioeconomically marginalized groups, International (public health), Policy-making institute or agency, Education, Social marketing, Policy advocacy, Web site, tuberculosis, malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia, safe delivery, Interdisciplinary research collaboration, Works-in-progress seminars, Implementation & dissemination science listservs