Staff

The EPPIcenter fosters the careers of our staff, and delights in their achievements 

Faith De Amaral

Faith De Amaral

Faith is a Berkeley graduate who has recently finished studying avian malaria at San Francisco State. She has a background in environmental science and conservation biology, and has found a passion for parasitology and disease ecology. She is looking forward to working with malaria in the human realm and seeing this science through a new lens

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Aaron Elliot 

Aaron Elliot

Aaron is a recent graduate from UC Davis with a major in Genetics. He has a background in animal genomics and veterinary genetics and has found excitement and passion in the fridge of parasitology and disease genomics.

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Inna Gerlovina 

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Inna is an Assistant Researcher. She is interested in the application, development, and implementation of statistical methods that contribute to understanding malaria epidemiology and transmission. She holds a PhD in Biostatistics from UC Berkeley where she worked on methods to improve reliability of finite sample inference.

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Finterly H 

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Fin is a bioinformatician. She earned her MS in Bioinformatics from KU Leuven in Belgium. She worked at Maastricht University in the Netherlands before joining EPPIcenter. She is looking forward to exploring and developing tools for global health research

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Arefin Keya 

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Arefin is a bioinformatician with interests in immunological, genomics and transcriptomic data analysis. She received her masters in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from UC Berkeley. Her undergrad was in Biochemistry and her formative years were spent at biotech industries developing immunotherapies for cancer and auto-immune diseases. At the EPPI center, she wants to explore large/epidemiologic-level infectious disease data and solve problems that are biologically meaningful.

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Charles Le

Charles Le

Charles is a Staff Research Associate, and Lab Manager . He earned his BS in Physiology from SF State University. He then worked at the University of San Francisco before moving to UCSF.

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Sophie Maxfield

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Sophie is a Staff Research Associate in our lab.

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Teresa Moeller

Teresa Moeller

Teresa is a Project Policy Analyst and Program Manager for the EPPIcenter. She joins us with a background in managing global health projects at UCSF for nearly 30 years.

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Brian Palmer

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Brian is a Bioinformatician.

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Sophia Tan

Sophia Tan

 

Sophia is a recent graduate from UC Berkeley with a double major in Data Science and Molecular & Cell Biology. She has worked with the WASH Benefits team to understand the complex relationships between child biomarkers and child growth and development outcomes. She's interested in exploring the intersection of global health and data science and utilizing computational tools to inform public health policy.

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Eric Vickers

Eric Vickers

Eric is a Staff Research Associate in our lab.

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