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Public Health Research Institute
Institute:
Public Health Research Institute
Host Investigator:
Dr. Purnima Madhivanan
UC Berkeley Investigators:
Dr. Arthur L. Reingold is a Professor of Epidemiology and Associate Director of the Center for Global PublicHealth, in the School of Public Health. Dr Reingold's research has focused for the past 30 years on the prevention and control of infectious diseases in the US and in developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. He has studied and continues to study a wide range of bacterial and viral infections, including bacterial meningitis, pneumonia and other respiratory infections, influenza, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS. Reingold's group is particularly interested in vaccines and their effectiveness and impact, as well as in other prevention and control strategies. He currently directs the CDC-funded California Emerging Infections Program, which studies a variety of infectious diseases in the US setting, and has collaborations with current and former students in Brazil, Peru, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and India relating to encephalitis, leptospirosis, tuberculosis, malaria, HIV/AIDS, STIs, and bacterial vaginosis.
Dr. Lee Riley is a Professor of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases in the School of Public Health. The Riley group focuses on three general areas: I) basic biology of infectious disease pathogenesis, II) epidemiology of drug-resistant infectious diseases, and III) global health focused on infectious diseases of urban slums. Knowledge gained from each of the research areas is used to generate databases and reagents that can be used as research tools. All of these projects focus on infectious diseases of global importance, including tuberculosis, E. coli, and leptospirosis.
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