The Faculty have a wide range of backgrounds and research interests.
Epidemiology
Barbara Abrams, DrPH, RD: Maternal and child nutrition; nutrition and AIDS; current developments in public health nutrition; maternal weight gain and pregnancy outcome.
Jennifer Ahern, PhD, MPH: Social Epidemiology; Population Health
Tomas Aragon, MD, DrPH (Adjunct): Epidemiology of HIV infection; bioterrorism; emerging infections.
Lisa Barcellos, PhD: Application of statistical methods to complex genetic disorders; human genetics; identification of gene-environment interactions in complex disorders; genetic epidemiology of autoimmune diseases.
Michael Bates, PhD, MPH (Adjunct): Health effects of arsenic and of organoclorines.
Heidi Bauer, MD, MS, MPH (Adjunct): Women’s health including human papillomavirus (HPV), cervical cancer, domestic violence, and sexually transmitted diseases including HIV prevention.
Gladys Block, PhD: Nutritional epidemiology; antioxidant nutrient intake and disease relationships; undernutrition in the United States.
W. Thomas Boyce, MD (Adjunct): Social and cultural influences on infectious and noninfectious diseases.
Patricia Buffler, PhD, MPH: Exposure assessment in environmental epidemiology; environmental tobacco smoke and lung cancer in nonsmoking women; health effects associated with exposure to hazardous waste sites; epidemiology of childhood cancer.
Ray Catalano, PhD, MRP: Economic antecedents of alcohol abuse, specialty mental health surveys.
James Chin, MD, MPH (Clinical Professor): Estimation/ Projection methods for HIV/AIDS in developing countries.
John Colford, MD, PhD, MPH: Epidemiology of infectious diseases, including AIDS, cryptosporidiosis and other waterborne infectious diseases, and the public health effects of wastewater control strategies. Application of tree-based survival methods (recursive partitioning) to epidemiologic studies.
Brenda Eskenazi, PhD: Reproductive hazards in the workplace, behavioral toxicology and teratology, and reproductive epidemiology.
Lia Fernald, PhD: Psychosocial and biological determinants of health; malnutrition, international child health and development.
William Jagust, MD: Cerebral metabolism; cognitive neuroscience, behavioral neurology and neuropsychology.
Kathleen Mortimer, ScD, MPH (Adjunct): Air pollution effects on asthmatic children; controlling asthma in school-age children.
Amani Nuru-Jeter, PhD, MPH: Race and socioeconomic inequalities in health; social disadvantage.
Emily Ozer, PhD: Promotion of mental and physical health among adolescents; violence prevention; trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Nancy Padian, PhD, MPH (Adjunct): Sexually transmitted diseases and HIV infection.
David R. Ragland, PhD, MPH (Adjunct): Social and behavioral influences on disease and injury; systems approach to health and disease.
Arthur L. Reingold, MD: The epidemiology of infectious diseases, particularly bacterial, mycobacterial, and fungal infections; control of infectious disease in developing countries; emerging and re-emerging infections.
Lee Riley, MD: The epidemiology of infectious diseases, particularly tuberculosis and diarrheal diseases in the U.S. and in developing countries.
George Rutherford, MD (in Residence): The epidemiology of infectious diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS.
William A. Satariano, PhD, MPH: Epidemiology of aging and cancer epidemiology. Special interest in the epidemiology of disability in older women with breast cancer.
Gary Shaw, DrPH, MPH (Adjunct): Genetic/environmental interactions in birth defects.
Allan H. Smith, MD, PhD: Epidemiology of environmentally- and occupationally-related diseases; particularly cancer. Health effects of arsenic in drinking water, exposure to silica, and exposure to diesel exhaust.
Craig Steinmaus, MD, MPH (Adjunct): Occupational and environmental epidemiology, arsenic carcinogenicity, beryllium surveillance.
S. Leonard Syme, PhD: Social and cultural influences on the occurrence of disease, especially stress and the cardiovascular diseases.
Ira B. Tager, M.D., MPH: Epidemiology of chronic lung diseases; effects of environmental tobacco smoke on the respiratory health of infants and children; effects of ambient air pollution on respiratory health; asthma.
Contance Weisner, DrPH, MSW (Adjunct): Epidemiology of alcohol and drug use and related problems.
Warren Winkelstein, Jr., MD, MPH: Disease effects of air pollution; cancer epidemiology; AIDS; epidemiological considerations in public policy; history of epidemiology.
Biostatistics
Chin Long Chiang, PhD: Stochastic processes, life tables, competing risks, stages of disease, and survival methods.
Sandrine Dudoit, PhD: Application of statistics to problems in genetics and molecular biology.
Alan E. Hubbard, PhD: Survival analysis and missing data.
Nicholas P. Jewell, PhD: Statistical methods in AIDS research, survival analysis.
Maureen Lahiff, PhD: Applied multivariate methods, time series.
Steve Selvin, PhD: Data analysis applied to environmental and epidemiologic issues, particularly graphical analysis.
Michael E. Tarter, PhD: Nonparametric estimation, computer and graphical methodology, cancer and environmental studies.
Mark J. van der Laan, PhD: Semi-parametric methods and survival analysis.
In addition to the faculty listed above, over two dozen outstanding epidemiologists, biostatisticians, survey researchers, and other scientists working at various other institutions in the San Francisco Bay area (UC San Francisco, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, California Department of Public Health, California Birth Defects Monitoring Program, Northern California Cancer Center, Human Population Laboratory, UC Berkeley Survey Research Center, and local county health departments) have appointments as lecturers and/or contribute to both classroom teaching and mentoring of masters and doctoral student research.
These individuals include:
• Cheryl Cherpitel, DrPH, RN, University of California, Berkeley (UCB) Epidemiology of Alcohol-related problems
• Maria Ekstrand, PhD, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Behavior and Policy Science in HIV Treatment and Prevention
• Wayne Enanoria, PhD, MPH, University of California, Berkeley (UCB) Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness (CIDP)
Disaster Epidemiology
• Lee Kaskutas, DrPH, University of California, Berkeley (UCB) Ethnic Differences in Alcohol-Related Problems Among Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics
• Leslie Louie, PhD, MPH, Children’s Hospital, Oakland
Genetic Epidemiology
• Janet Mohle-Boetani, MD, MPH, University of California, Berkeley (UCB) Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness (CIDP)
Conducting an Outbreak Investigation
• Stephen F. Morin, PhD, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Behavior and Policy Science in HIV Treatment and Prevention
• Thomas L. Piazza, PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Applied Sampling
• Travis C. Porco, PhD, MPH, California Department of Public Health Services, Division of Communicable Disease Control
Modeling the Dynamics of Infectious Disease Processes
• Joseph Selby, MD, MPH, Kaiser-Permanente, Division of Research
Cancer and Cancer Screening
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