PREPARE Institute Faculty
Assistant Professor
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Refugee health, disaster relief, implementation science, clinical trials
Distinguished Professor in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Computational virology, virus-host interactions, airborne transmission, structure-based immunogen design
Professor and Founding Dean
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
UC San Diego
Kristian Andersen, PhD
ProfessorEliah 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 Diego
Areas of Expertise: Community powered innovation, human centered and translational design, diagnostic and digital therapeutic development
Janelle Ayers, PhD
Professor and Laboratory HeadJohn W. Ayers, PhD, MA
Associate Professor and Vice Chief of InnovationConstance Benson, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Disease & Global Public Health
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Fungal genomics and pathogenesis, host-pathogen interactions, antimicrobial discovery
Areas of Expertise: Breastfeeding safety, human milk biology, human milk antimicrobials
Sandra Brown, PhD
Distinguished ProfessorDennis Burton, PhD
ChairProfessor (Clinical)
Department of Pediatrics
Human Milk Institute
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Viral response pathogens, vaccines, human milk, novel diagnostics, infants and children
Alan J. Card, PhD, MPH, DFASHRM
Assistant ProfessorAssistant Professor in Residence
Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
Director, SARS-CoV-2 BSL-3 Research
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Host-pathogen interactions, viral pathogenesis, genomics, systems biology
Assistant Professor
San Diego Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Bioinformatics, molecular evolution, phylodynamics
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Co-Director, Center for Better Beginnings
Associate Director, Altman Clinical & Translational Research Institute
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Environmental causes of adverse pregnancy outcomes, birth defects, and childhood disabilities with a special focus on human teratogens; vaccine safety in pregnancy
Sumit Chanda, PhD
ProfessorEzra Cohen, MD, FRCPSC, FASCO
Professor and Chief, Division of Hematology‐OncologyAssociate Professor
Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology
Department of Pediatrics
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Inflammation, innate immunity, viral pathogenesis
Victor De Grutolla, ScD
Professor Emeritus of BiostatisticsAssistant 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 Diego
Areas of Expertise: community engagement, health disparities, global health, prevention
Gary Firestein, MD
Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Health SciencesDerrick Fouts, PhD
ProfessorMarcelo Freire, DDS, PhD, DMSc
Associate ProfessorCaroline Freund, PhD
DeanVice 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 ResidenceSteven Garfin, MD
Interim DeanPradipta Ghosh, MD
Professor, Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular MedicineProfessor
Department of Pediatrics
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Microbiome, ecology, built environment, human health
Kamil Godula, PhD
Associate ProfessorAreas of Expertise: Glycoengineering, chemical glycobiology
Steven Gonias, MD, PhD
Chair and Distinguished ProfessorJohn Guatelli, MD
Professor of MedicineRajesh Gupta, PhD
Professor and Qualcomm Endowed ChairMichael Hogarth, MD
Professor and Clinical Research Information OfficerAssociate Dean for Research and Professor of Biostatistics
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Biostatistics, clinical trial design, analysis of complex data
Ahnika Kline, MD, PhD, D(ABMM)
Assistant Professor, Clinical PathologyMiroslav Krstic, PhD
Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for ResearchAndrea LaCroix, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Chief of EpidemiologyRatnesh Lal, PhD
Professor of BioengineeringAreas of Expertise: Embryonic stem cell research, genomic technologies, extracellular miRNA, perinatology
Sandra Leibel, MD, MS
Assistant ProfessorProfessor 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 Diego
Areas 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
Areas of Expertise: Health systems research, quality improvement, clinical informatics
Jess Mandel, MD, FACP, ATSF
Kenneth M. Moser Professor of Medicine and ChiefNatasha Martin, DPhil
Associate ProfessorAssociate Teaching Professor and Associate Dean
School of Global Policy and Strategy
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Health economics, environmental economics
Areas of Expertise: Computational viral epidemiology, phylogenetics, models of sequence and tree evolution, Massive Adaptive Interactive Text (MAIT) development
Camille Nebeker, EdD, MS
Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise: Research ethics, bioethics, privacy, informed consent, human centered design, community engagement
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 Diego
Areas of Expertise: Bacterial pathogenesis, innate immunity
Jerrold Olefsky, MD
Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean for Scientific AffairsErica Ollmann Saphire, PhD
President & CEOStanley Opella, PhD
ProfessorSang Park, PhD
Project ScientistCorinne Peek-Asa, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Vice Chancellor for ResearchProfessor
Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Areas of Expertise: Computational tools to address fundamental questions in immunology
David T. Pride, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of PathologyGiorgio Quer, PhD
Director, Artificial Intelligence, Scripps Research Translational InstituteBorsika Rabin, PhD, MPH, PharmD
Associate ProfessorProfessor of Public Health
Executive Director, Newcomb Institute
Tulane University
Professor of Medicine
UC San Diego
Areas 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
Tariq Rana, PhD
Distinguished Professor and Head of GeneticsProfessor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
UC San Diego
Medicine Senior Scientific Advisor
FIND, Geneva, Switzerland
Areas of Expertise: Antimicrobial resistance, rapid POC diagnostics for infectious diseases, global policy on treatment and diagnosis of infectious disease
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 Diego
Areas of Expertise: Viral prevention, pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy, rapid diagnostics
Associate Professor
Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Areas 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
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering and the Halicioğlu Data Science Institute
Executive Committee, Center for Circadian Biology
Member, Center for Wearable Sensors
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Biological time series analysis, wearable devices, personalized detection systems
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 Diego
Areas of Expertise: Neuropathology, virologic correlates of end organ damage, HIV shedding in genital tract, molecular epidemiology, HIV superinfection, transmission of HIV, translational virology
Stephen Spector, MD
Distinguished Professor of PediatricsAssistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Director of Dissemination and Evaluation, ACTRI Dissemination and Implementation Science Center
Researcher, Child and Adolescent Services Research Center
UC San Diego
Areas 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
Associate Dean, Global Health Sciences
Harold Simon Distinguished Professor, Department of Medicine
Co-Director, Center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Infectious disease epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, phage therapy, vaccine hesitancy
Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases
J. Craig Venter Institute
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
UC San Diego
Areas 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
John Teijaro, PhD
Associate ProfessorEric Topol, MD
Gary & Mary West Endowed Chair of Innovative MedicineFrancesca Torriani, MD
Professor of MedicineAreas of Expertise: Vaccine efficacy and effectiveness, epidemiology, community engagement
Research Assistant Professor
Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Areas of Expertise: Emerging infectious disease, viral immunity, T cells
Assistant Professor
Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Public Health
UC San Diego
Assistant Professor
Institute for Health Policy, Management & Evaluation
University of Toronto
Director, Centre on Drug Policy Evaluation
St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto
Gene Yeo, PhD, MBA
Professor