Elizabeth Fair, PhD, MPH
Professor
Elizabeth Fair, PhD, MPH is trained as infectious disease epidemiologist with a primary appointment in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. She holds affiliated faculty appointments with the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS) where she serves as the Director of Education and the UCSF Curry International Tuberculosis Center. Dr. Fair is a Co-Director of the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis.
Dr. Fair’s research interests include tuberculosis (TB), TB/HIV, global health, and implementation and operational research. Her work focuses on developing and evaluating public health interventions aimed at finding undiagnosed or under-reported TB, specifically intensified TB case finding and TB contact investigation in high TB-burden settings. Recent collaborations include projects exploring feasibility and acceptability of mobile health applications for implementation of TB contact investigation in Mozambique; use of drones and new technologies to find, diagnose, and treat TB in remote Madagascar; and causes of TB stigma in Bangladesh. She has consulted for the American Thoracic Society (ATS), World Health Organization (WHO), the Dutch Tuberculosis Group (KNCV) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Global TB team. Dr. Fair co-leads the NIH funded TB Research and Mentoring Program (TB RAMP) dedicated to mentoring early-stage investigators, based within the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis. She also co-leads the Developmental Core of the NIH Funded UC Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (UC TRAC) dedicated to mentoring UC and international early stage investigators in tuberculosis.
Dr. Fair is Director of Education for the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS) where she has served as an Associate Director for the MSc Program in Global Health Sciences (2016-17), and since 2017 has served as Director of the PhD Program in Global Health Sciences, where she teaches global health research practice and global health equity, develops innovative curricula, and mentors doctoral students.
Dr. Fair’s research interests include tuberculosis (TB), TB/HIV, global health, and implementation and operational research. Her work focuses on developing and evaluating public health interventions aimed at finding undiagnosed or under-reported TB, specifically intensified TB case finding and TB contact investigation in high TB-burden settings. Recent collaborations include projects exploring feasibility and acceptability of mobile health applications for implementation of TB contact investigation in Mozambique; use of drones and new technologies to find, diagnose, and treat TB in remote Madagascar; and causes of TB stigma in Bangladesh. She has consulted for the American Thoracic Society (ATS), World Health Organization (WHO), the Dutch Tuberculosis Group (KNCV) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Global TB team. Dr. Fair co-leads the NIH funded TB Research and Mentoring Program (TB RAMP) dedicated to mentoring early-stage investigators, based within the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis. She also co-leads the Developmental Core of the NIH Funded UC Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (UC TRAC) dedicated to mentoring UC and international early stage investigators in tuberculosis.
Dr. Fair is Director of Education for the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS) where she has served as an Associate Director for the MSc Program in Global Health Sciences (2016-17), and since 2017 has served as Director of the PhD Program in Global Health Sciences, where she teaches global health research practice and global health equity, develops innovative curricula, and mentors doctoral students.