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
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
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
Professor (Clinical)
Department of Pediatrics
Human Milk Institute
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Viral response pathogens, vaccines, human milk, novel diagnostics, infants and children
Assistant 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
Associate Professor
Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology
Department of Pediatrics
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Inflammation, innate immunity, viral pathogenesis
Assistant Professor
Laboratory for Computational Immunology
Center for Vaccine Innovation
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
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
Vice President for Policy & University Relations
J. Craig Venter Institute
Professor of Practice
School of Global Strategy and Policy
UC San Diego
Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
UC San Diego
Areas of Expertise: Microbiome, ecology, built environment, human health
Areas of Expertise: Glycoengineering, chemical glycobiology
Associate Dean for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion 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
Areas of Expertise: Embryonic stem cell research, genomic technologies, extracellular miRNA, perinatology
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 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
Associate 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
Areas of Expertise: Research ethics, bioethics, privacy, informed consent, human centered design, community engagement
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
Professor
Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Areas of Expertise: Computational tools to address fundamental questions in immunology
Professor 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
Professor 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
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 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
Areas 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