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Jack Colford, MD PhD
Jack is Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include waterborne infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, and meta-analysis and systematic reviews. He teaches several courses on advanced epidemiologic methods, systematic reviews and meta-analysis, and intervention trial design.
Wayne Enanoria, PhD, MPH
Wayne's research focuses on infectious disease epidemiology. He has conducted reviews involving treatment outcomes among persons infected with HIV/AIDS as well as hygiene interventions to decrease transmission of waterborne infectious diseases. He also teaches a course on epidemiologic investigations at the Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness in Berkeley.
Jennie Gorman, MD, MPH
Jennie is currently a rheumatologist at the University of California, San Francisco. The focus of her research is the genetic epidemiology of human autoimmune disease, particularly rheumatoid arthritis. This includes the study of gene-environment interactions and the use of meta-analysis in genetic research. Her current major research projects include investigation of the association between cigarette smoke exposure, genetic variation in enzymes that metabolize smoke with the susceptibility to and severity of several autoimmune and allergic diseases. Another project is examining the use of different meta-analytic methods to combine results from genome-wide linkage scans in systemic lupus erythematosus.
Alan Hubbard, PhD
Alan is Assistant Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently affiliated with both the Division of Biostatistics and Environmental Health Sciences. His research interests include causal inference, local efficient estimation in censored data models and statistical issues in toxicology and infectious diseases. He teaches several courses on longitudinal data analysis, causal inference, survival analysis and computational biology.
Asheena Khalakdina, PhD, MPH
In general, Asheena's interests lie in studying environmental risk factors for
infectious diseases especially in developing countries. In particular, she is involved in research on the health impacts of indoor air pollution (IAP)
exposure, specifically on acute respiratory infections among young children (NIH-funded intervention trial currently underway in
Guatemala) and pulmonary tuberculosis (currently conducting a systematic review on smoking and tuberculosis). Her interests are also in waterborne infectious diseases which she has studied
previously.
Michael McCulloch, MPH, LAc
What motivates Michael's research interests is an observation that the standoff
between conventional and alternative medicine is ending, and the two are
starting to come together in both the clinical and research arenas. With the
help of his colleagues and teachers at Berkeley (as a doctoral student in
epidemiology), and at Pine Street Clinic (as a practitioner of Chinese
medicine), Michael is researching the clinical benefits of integrative medical
practice.
Madhukar Pai, MD
Madhu, a physician from India, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University. Madhu's research interests involve
diagnostic research in the field of tuberculosis, and methodological
issues relating to meta-analyses of diagnostic test evaluations. He has
conducted systematic reviews on the accuracy of nucleic acid
amplification tests for tuberculosis. He is actively involved with
teaching courses on systematic reviews.
Nitika Pai, MD, MPH
Nitika is an Indian physician, who recently completed MPH (Epidemiology) and is continuing in the PhD program, supported by a fellowship from the NIH-Fogarty AIDS International Training Program at the University of California at Berkeley. Her interests lie in the realm of Clinical Research in HIV/AIDS, Evidence Based Medicine, Ethical issues in International research and Women’s Health in developing countries, with a focus on India. She is currently leading a Cochrane Review on Structured Treatment Interruptions in Antiretroviral treatment in the management of HIV/AIDS in adults. In addition, she is also looking at clinical, immunological and virological effects of unplanned antiretroviral treatment interruption among HIV infected incarcerated cohort in San Francisco. She intends to conduct part of her PhD dissertation research on HIV/AIDS prevention/care in North India.
Sona Saha, MPH
Sona is a doctoral student in Epidemiology at the University of
California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, focusing on waterborne
infectious diseases and gastrointestinal illness in immunocompromised
populations. She is conducting a review of rates of GI illness among
elderly and HIV+ individuals. Her research interests also include
applications of microarrays to epidemiological study designs. She is
currently developing a diagnostic microarray to detect bacterial and
protozoan organisms for use in a case-control study on the etiology of GI
illness in HIV+ patients.