Klausner Research Group
The Klausner Research Group, directed by Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, is housed in the Division of Inequalities of Global Health within the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the University of Southern California.
Research Opportunity for USC Students
In collaboration with the Hepatitis Unit of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, our team will develop a case management protocol and train a team of volunteer student case workers. We are contacting cases of Hepatitis C infection to educate, recommend treatment and assess the barriers to treatment.
We are looking for volunteer student case workers.
Responsibilities: Case workers will conduct phone calls during the week; join team meeting calls; participate in mandatory training activities; data reporting and presentation,
We ask for at least 10hr/week commitment to participate in the project.
Opportunities: Students will have the opportunity to learn about Hepatitis C case management, epidemiology and public health response, patient education, and the use of REDCap (data entry, reporting, presentation),
Applicants must be USC students. Send your CV to Chrysovalantis.stafylis@med.usc.edu
EVENT
From Bog to Bedside: A Personal Perspective on Phage Therapy for Treating Superbug Infections
The Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Applied Studies (IDEAS) Initiative and the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (IIGH) invite you to a virtual seminar featuring Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, Harold Simon Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Strathdee also serves as a Co-director of UCSD’s center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) and the International Core of UCSD’s Center for AIDS Research.
An infectious disease epidemiologist, she has spent the last two decades focusing on HIV prevention in marginalized populations in developing countries and has published over 700 peer-reviewed publications. Currently, she leads a multidisciplinary team of research on HIV risk behaviors among people who use drugs on the Mexico-US border.
She has co-authored her memoir, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist’s Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug (https://theperfectpredator.com/), which was published in 2019. It discusses how she, her colleagues at UC San Diego and a global village of phage researchers sought bacteriophage therapy to save her husband from a life-threatening multidrug resistant bacterial infection. For her efforts to revitalize phage therapy in North America, she was named as one of TIME’s 50 Most Influential People in Health Care in 2018.
Researcher Spotlight
Jeffrey Klausner, MD, Awarded Funding from Open Philanthropy Towards Improving Sexual and Reproductive Health in Low-Resource Settings
Over the last 2 years, Jeffrey Klausner, MD, MPH, has received four gifts from Open Philanthropy towards his research on the prevention and control of infectious diseases centering on sexual and reproductive health in low- and middle- income countries. Open Philanthropy is a grantmaking organization which aims to use its resources to help others address gaps in global public health. Klausner, a physician and epidemiologist, has worked in public health for over 25 years with entities such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the San Francisco Department of Public Health. With the ongoing global syphilis crisis, Klausner has dedicated his research towards interventions that have a practical and direct application to communities with the greatest need.
