Dr. Diane Havlir, MD
Principal Investigator
Dr. Havlir is Professor of Medicine at UCSF and Chief of the HIV, ID and Global Medicine Division at San Francisco General Hospital. She was a physician in training at UCSF when the AIDS epidemic emerged in the 1980s and has cared for HIV- infected patients for over 30 years. She is an accomplished researcher who pioneered some of the first studies of HIV antiretroviral therapy and drugs to prevent AIDS complications. SEARCH is a the next bold endeavor in her mission to end the HIV epidemic.
Dr. Moses Kamya, MBChB, MMed, PhD
Co-Principal Investigator
Dr. Moses R. Kamya is a Professor and past Dean at Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Kampala, Uganda and the director of the Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration. Dr. Kamya has been taking care of HIV infected patients since the beginning of the epidemic and is an opinion leader for HIV care and treatment in Uganda. He has also been conducting research on malaria and HIV for over 25 years. He is one of the editors of the Uganda antiretroviral therapy (ART) clinical guidelines and currently chairs the Ministry of Health adult ART management committee.
Dr. Maya Petersen, MD, PhD
Co-Principal Investigator
Dr. Petersen is a Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Co-Director of Joint Program in Computational Precision Health, and Co-Director for Targeted Machine Learning and Causal Inference at the University of California, Berkeley, who focuses on the development and application of novel causal inference methods to problems in health, community-based interventions, and HIV treatment and prevention. Over the past 15 years, she has collaborated extensively to develop and evaluate improved HIV prevention and care strategies in resource-limited settings.
LEADERSHIP
SAPPHIRE INVESTIGATIVE TEAM
Name | Title | Institution |
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Gabriel Chamie, MD, MPH | Study Vice Chair / Investigator | UCSF |
James Ayieko, MBChB, MPH, PhD | Investigator | KEMRI |
Laura Balzer, PhD | Study Statistician / Investigator | U Mass Amherst |
Elizabeth Bukusi, MBChB, MMed, MPH, PhD | Kenya site PI / Investigator | KEMRI |
Carol Camlin, MPH, PhD | Investigator | UCSF |
Edwin Charlebois, MPH, PhD | Investigator | UCSF |
Tamara Clark, MHS | Executive Administrator / Investigator | UCSF |
Craig Cohen, MD, MPH | Investigator | UCSF |
Eric Goosby, MD | Investigator | UCSF |
Judy Hahn, MA, PhD | Investigator | UCSF |
Priscilla Hsue, MD | Investigator | UCSF |
Jane Kabami, MPH | Investigator | IDRC |
Elijah Kakande, MBChB, MPH | Investigator | IDRC |
Catherine Koss, MD | Investigator | UCSF |
Florence Mwangwa, MBChB, MPH | Investigator | IDRC |
Marilyn Nyabuti, MBChB | Investigator | KEMRI |
Asiphas Owaraganise, MBChB, MMed | Investigator | IDRC |
Andrew Phillips, MSc, PhD | Modelling / Investigator | UCL |
Theodore Ruel | Investigator | UCSF |
Norton Sang, MA | Investigator | KEMRI |
Starley Shade, MPH, PhD | Investigator | UCSF |
Harsha Thurimurthy, PhD | Economist / Investigator | Univ Penn |