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Assistant Professor
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Refugee health, disaster relief, implementation science, clinical trials
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Distinguished Professor in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Computational virology, virus-host interactions, airborne transmission, structure-based immunogen design
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Professor and Founding Dean
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
UC San Diego -
Kristian Andersen, PhD
Professor
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
California Campus
Scripps Research -
Eliah Aronoff Spencer, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
Director, Center for Health and Strategic Health Initiatives, UC San Diego Design Lab
Director, Distributed Health Lab, Qualcomm Institute
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Community powered innovation, human centered and translational design, diagnostic and digital therapeutic development
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Janelle Ayers, PhD
Professor and Laboratory Head
Gene Expression Laboratory
Molecular and Systems Physiology Laboratory
NOMIS Center for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Helen McLoraine Developmental Chair
Salk Institute for Biological Sciences -
John W. Ayers, PhD, MA
Associate Professor and Vice Chief of Innovation
Division of Infectious Disease & Global Public Health
UC San Diego -
Constance Benson, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Disease & Global Public Health
UC San Diego -
Associate Professor
Department of Infectious Diseases, J. Craig Venter Institute
Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health, University of California, San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Fungal genomics and pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, antimicrobial discovery
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Professor
Division of Neonatology and Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Department of Pediatrics
Chair of Collaborative Human Milk Research
Director, Human Milk Institute (HMI)
Director, Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence (MOMI CORE)
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Breastfeeding safety, human milk biology, human milk antimicrobials
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Sandra Brown, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry
UC San Diego -
Dennis Burton, PhD
Chair
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
California Campus
Scripps Research -
Professor (Clinical)
Department of Pediatrics
Human Milk Institute
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Viral response pathogens, vaccines, human milk, novel diagnostics, infants and children
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Alan J. Card, PhD, MPH, DFASHRM
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Design Lab Affiliated Faculty, Global Health Program
UC San Diego -
Assistant Professor in Residence
Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
Director, SARS-CoV-2 BSL-3 Research
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Host-pathogen interactions, viral pathogenesis, genomics, systems biology
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Assistant Professor
San Diego Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Bioinformatics, molecular evolution, phylodynamics
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Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Co-Director, Center for Better Beginnings
Associate Director, Altman Clinical & Translational Research Institute
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Environmental causes of adverse pregnancy outcomes, birth defects, and childhood disabilities with a special focus on human teratogens; vaccine safety in pregnancy
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Sumit Chanda, PhD
Professor
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
California Campus
Scripps Research -
Ezra Cohen, MD, FRCPSC, FASCO
Professor and Chief, Division of Hematology‐Oncology
Co-Director, San Diego Center for Precision Immunotherapy
Associate Director, Clinical Science, Moores Cancer Center
Associate Director, Translational Science, Moores Cancer Center
UC San Diego -
Associate Professor
Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology
Department of Pediatrics
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Inflammation, innate immunity, viral pathogenesis
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Associate Professor
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
UC San Diego
Section Chief, Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine
VA San Diego Healthcare System -
Professor
Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
La Jolla Institute for Immunology -
Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
UC San Diego
Clinical Associate/Instructor
La Jolla Institute for Immunology -
Victor De Grutolla, ScD
Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics
Harvard University
Visiting Scholar
UC San Diego -
Assistant Professor
Laboratory for Computational Immunology
Center for Vaccine Innovation
La Jolla Institute for Immunology -
Rebecca Fielding-Miller, PhD, MSPH
Assistant Professor
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
Director, Global Health Equity and Health Justice Research Group
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: community engagement, health disparities, global health, prevention
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Gary Firestein, MD
Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences
Director, Altman Clinical & Translational Research Institute (ACTRI)
UC San Diego -
Derrick Fouts, PhD
Professor
Rockville Campus
J. Craig Venter Institute
Areas of Expertise: viral and bacteriophage genomics, bacterial genomics, comparative genomics, metagenomics of bacterial and viral communities -
Marcelo Freire, DDS, PhD, DMSc
Associate Professor
Department of Genomic Medicine and Infectious Disease
La Jolla Campus
J. Craig Venter Institute -
Caroline Freund, PhD
Dean
School of Global Policy and Strategy
UC San Diego -
Vice President for Policy & University Relations
J. Craig Venter Institute
Professor of Practice
School of Global Strategy and Policy
UC San Diego -
Mark Fuster, MD
Professor in Residence
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
UC San Diego -
Steven Garfin, MD
Interim Dean
School of Medicine
Distinguished Professor
Department of Orthopaedics
UC San Diego -
Pradipta Ghosh, MD
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Director, Center for Network Medicine
Executive Director, HUMANOID™ Center of Research Excellence (CoRE)
UC San Diego -
Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Microbiome, ecology, built environment, human health
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Kamil Godula, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Glycoengineering, chemical glycobiology
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Steven Gonias, MD, PhD
Chair and Distinguished Professor
Department of Pathology
UC San Diego -
Assistant ProfessorDivision of Infectious Diseases & Global Public HealthUC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Biostatistics, network science, modeling complex systems
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John Guatelli, MD
Professor of Medicine
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Molecular virology, HIV, cellular resistance factors -
Rajesh Gupta, PhD
Professor and Qualcomm Endowed Chair
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Co-Director, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
UC San Diego -
Michael Hogarth, MD
Professor and Clinical Research Information Officer
Division of Biomedical Informatics
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Public health informatics, clinical natural language processing/understanding, biomedical ontologies and terminologies -
Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Biostatistics
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Biostatistics, clinical trial design, analysis of complex data
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Ahnika Kline, MD, PhD, D(ABMM)
Assistant Professor, Clinical Pathology
Associate Director, Microbiology Laboratory
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Quality improvement in infectious disease diagnostics, rare fungal infections -
Professor
Departments of Pediatrics, Bioengineering, and Computer Science & Engineering
Director, Center for Microbiome Innovation
UC San Diego -
Miroslav Krstic, PhD
Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
Director, Center for Control Systems and Dynamics
Daniel L. Alspach Endowed Chair in Dynamic Systems and Control
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
UC San Diego -
Andrea LaCroix, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Chief of Epidemiology
Department of Family Medicine and Public Health
UC San Diego -
Ratnesh Lal, PhD
Professor of Bioengineering
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Materials Science
Co-Director, Center of Excellence in Nanomedicine and Engineering
Jacobs School of Engineering
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Nanobiotechnology, multidimensional biological atomic force microscopy, ion channel biophysics, nanomedicine -
Professor and Vice Chair for Translational Research
Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Reproductive Sciences
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Embryonic stem cell research, genomic technologies, extracellular miRNA, perinatology
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Sandra Leibel, MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Division of Neonatology
Department of Pediatrics
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Lung development, surfactant, stem cell derived lung organoids, breast milk, microbiome, non-invasive ventilation -
Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Disease & Global Public Health
Director, Antiviral Research Center (AVRC)
Clinical Research Site Leader, AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG)
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Prevention and treatment of acute and very recent HIV infection and the use of molecular epidemiologic methods to infer and characterize HIV transmission networks
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Chief Medical Officer
Chief Digital Officer
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Health systems research, quality improvement, clinical informatics
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Jess Mandel, MD, FACP, ATSF
Kenneth M. Moser Professor of Medicine and Chief
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine
Vice-Chair for Education
Department of Medicine
UC San Diego -
Natasha Martin, DPhil
Associate Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: HCV, HIV, substance use, prevention, epidemic modeling, economic modeling -
Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Dean
School of Global Policy and Strategy
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Health economics, environmental economics
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Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Medicine
Director, Institute of Engineering in Medicine
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Systems biology, multiscale modeling, computational biology -
Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Computational viral epidemiology, phylogenetics, models of sequence and tree evolution, Massive Adaptive Interactive Text (MAIT) development
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Camille Nebeker, EdD, MS
Associate Professor
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity
Director, Research Ethics Program Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
Co-Founder and Director, Research Center for Optimal Digital Ethics - Health
Science Voting Faculty, UCSD Design Lab
UC San Diego
Chair, Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAreas of Expertise: Research ethics, bioethics, privacy, informed consent, human centered design, community engagement
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Victor Nizet, MD
Distinguished Professor and Vice-Chair for Basic Research, Department of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Host-Microbe Systems & Therapeutics
Distinguished Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Bacterial pathogenesis, innate immunity
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Jerrold Olefsky, MD
Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Scientific Affairs
UC San Diego -
Erica Ollmann Saphire, PhD
President & CEO
Professor, Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
La Jolla Institute for Immunology -
Stanley Opella, PhD
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC San Diego -
Sang Park, PhD
Project Scientist
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC San Diego -
Associate Professor
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
Scripps Research -
Corinne Peek-Asa, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Vice Chancellor for Research
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
UC San Diego -
Professor
Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
La Jolla Institute for ImmunologyAreas of Expertise: Computational tools to address fundamental questions in immunology
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David T. Pride, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pathology
Director of Molecular Microbiology
Associate Director of Microbiology
UC San Diego -
Giorgio Quer, PhD
Director, Artificial Intelligence, Scripps Research Translational Institute
Senior Staff Scientist
Scripps Research
Areas of Expertise: Artificial intelligence, probabilistic modeling, wearable sensors -
Borsika Rabin, PhD, MPH, PharmD
Associate Professor
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
Co-Director, Dissemination and Implementation Science Center
UC San Diego
Co-Director, ACCORDS Dissemination and Implementation Science Graduate Certificate Program
Areas of Expertise: Dissemination and implementation science, adapting evidence-based interventions, theories, models, frameworks for dissemination and implementation science, pragmatic measures -
Professor of Public Health
Executive Director, Newcomb Institute
Tulane UniversityProfessor of Medicine
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Epidemiologic and qualitative assessment of gendered, social, and cultural vulnerabilities compromising reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health across national settings; assessment of the etiology and public health impact of gender inequities including early and child marriage, intimate partner violence and sexual assault, and son preference; development and evaluation of social and behavioral interventions for socially vulnerable populations (e.g., minorities, people contending with substance abuse/misuse, youth); gender empowerment theory for survey design, application of social and behavioral theories for measurement and evaluation research in cross-national settings; gender data and data to policy impact; gender parity in academia and in leadership; gender equity and quality of care
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Tariq Rana, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Head of Genetics
Vice Chancellor for Innovation in Therapeutics
Department of Pediatrics
Institute for Genomic Medicine & Moores Cancer Center
UC San Diego -
Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
UC San Diego
Medicine Senior Scientific Advisor
FIND, Geneva, SwitzerlandAreas of Expertise: Antimicrobial resistance, rapid POC diagnostics for infectious diseases, global policy on treatment and diagnosis of infectious disease
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Director of Informatics
J. Craig Venter Institute -
Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
Co-Director, Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics
Senior Director, International Initiatives
Interim Faculty Director, Global Education
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Viral prevention, pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy, rapid diagnostics
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Professor
Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation
La Jolla Institute for Immunology -
Associate Professor
Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
La Jolla Institute for ImmunologyAreas of Expertise: Immunology and pathogenesis of human viruses such as the flaviviruses dengue virus (DENV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) and the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
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Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering and the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute
Executive Committee, Center for Circadian Biology
Member, Center for Wearable Sensors
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Biological time series analysis, wearable devices, personalized detection systems
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Director, PREPARE Institute
Protocol Co-Chair, ACTIV-2
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
Professor and Vice-Chair of Research, Department of Medicine
Co-Director, San Diego Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
Florence Riford Seeley Chair in AIDS Research
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Neuropathology, virologic correlates of end organ damage, HIV shedding in genital tract, molecular epidemiology, HIV superinfection, transmission of HIV, translational virology
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Stephen Spector, MD
Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics
Chief of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Director of the UC San Diego Mother-Child-Adolescent HIV Program
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Human Immunodeficiency Virus type-1, HIV-1, HIV, HIV associated neurocognitive impairment, human cytomegalovirus, CMV, atherosclerosis, viral pathogenesis, antiviral treatment, HIV mother-to-child transmission, MTCT, autophagy, vitamin D -
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Director of Dissemination and Evaluation, ACTRI Dissemination and Implementation Science Center
Researcher, Child and Adolescent Services Research Center
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Implementation science, autism, pediatrics, mental health services, health policy, community engagement, public health, health equity, global health, mixed methods, capacity building, system interventions, HIV prevention and intervention
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Associate Dean, Global Health Sciences
Harold Simon Distinguished Professor, Department of Medicine
Co-Director, Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Infectious disease epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, phage therapy, vaccine hesitancy
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Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases
J. Craig Venter InstituteAdjunct Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
UC San DiegoAreas of Expertise: Molecular virology, monoclonal antibodies, antibody response, Fc-dependent cell-mediated antiviral responses, novel vaccines, viral pathogenesis, viral genome sequencing, influenza virus, non-neutralizing antibodies, neutralizing antibodies
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John Teijaro, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Immunology and Microbiology
California Campus
Scripps Research -
Eric Topol, MD
Gary & Mary West Endowed Chair of Innovative Medicine
Executive Vice President
Professor, Molecular Medicine
Director & Founder, Scripps Research Translational Institute
Department of Molecular Medicine
California Campus
Scripps Research -
Francesca Torriani, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Clinical Epidemiology
UC San Diego -
Guest Researcher
Centers for Disease Control and PreventionAreas of Expertise: Vaccine efficacy and effectiveness, epidemiology, community engagement
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Research Assistant Professor
Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
La Jolla Institute for ImmunologyAreas of Expertise: Emerging infectious disease, viral immunity, T cells
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Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
UC San DiegoAssistant Professor
Areas of Expertise: Open science, pandemic policy, epidemiology, policy analysis, inequity, population health
Institute for Health Policy, Management & Evaluation
University of Toronto
Director, Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation
St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto -
Professor, Department of Immunology and MIcrobiology
Senior Director, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) Neutralizing Antibody Center
Scripps Consortium for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Development (CHAVD)
Scripps Research
Areas of Expertise: Novel vaccines, HIV pathogenesis, coronavirus therapeutics -
Gene Yeo, PhD, MBA
Professor
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Co-Director, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Graduate Program
UC San Diego
PREPARE Institute Faculty