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Willi McFarland, MD, PhD

  1. Director, HIV/AIDS Statistics and Epidemiology, San Francisco Department of Public Health
  2. Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
  Phone: 415-597-8200  
Fax: 415-597-8299


Education

Stanford University, Stanford, CaliforniaBS1987Medical Microbiology
Tulane School of Public Health, New OrleansMPH/TM1991Tropical Medicine
Tulane School of MedicineMD1991Medicine
University of California, BerkeleyPh.D.1995Epidemiology

Career history

1992Internship, Primary Care Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco
1992-1994Residency, Preventive Medicine, University of California, Berkeley
1996-1997Post-doctoral fellow, Infectious Diseases, Stanford University
1993-1996Post-doctoral fellow, NIMH-funded, AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California, San Francisco
1996-2002Physician Specialist, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
1995-Director, HIV/AIDS Statistics and Epidemiology Unit, San Francisco Department of Public Health
1997-Regional Director for Africa, CAPS International Program, University of California, San Francisco
2002-Associate Professor, Dept. Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco

Community and Professional Service

  • Public service: San Francisco Mayor's AIDS Scientific Advisory Council, HIV Prevention Planning Council of San Francisco, HIV Epidemiology and Priority Setting Committee, Committee for the San Francisco Mayor's Summit on AIDS.
  • Reviewer for grant applications: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; National Institutes of Health, Cell Regulation and Development Group (FIRCA); National Institutes of Health, Global Health Research Initiative (GRID); Medical Research Council, United Kingdom; California AIDS Research Center and AIDS Research Insititute.
  • Referee for journal publications: New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Journal of the American Public Health Association, American Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of Infectious Diseases, AIDS, Journal of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology, Pediatrics, AIDS and Behavior, AIDS Education and Prevention; AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, AIDS Care
  • Working groups: HIV Surveillance among Hard to Reach Populations (UNAIDS); Global AIDS Activity Monitoring and Evaluation Review Group for the LIFE Initiatives (CDC); International Advisory Committee member for the Polaris Study, Toronto, Canada.

Honors

2001Charles C. Shepard Science Award, Assessment and Epidemiology, CDC
1995Warren Winkelstein Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation, UC Berkeley
1991Alpha Omega Alpha, Honor Medical Society
1991Delta Omega, Honor Public Health Society
1991Tulane Alumni Association Student Recognition Award
1987-1991Julian Hawthorne Scholarship, tuition scholarship, Tulane School of Medicine
1990Thomas A. Giddings Humanitarian Award
1987BS degree with Distinction, Stanford University
1987Departmental Honors in Medical Microbiology, Stanford University
1982-1987National Merit/Pfizer Scholarship, Stanford University
1986Jeff Rogers Memorial Award for Excellence in Research

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