Steffanie Strathdee, PhD

Steffanie Strathdee, PhD is the Harold Simon Distinguished Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. She co-founded and co-directs UCSD’s center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH).

Tracks: Global Health

Dr. Strathdee is 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 600 peer-reviewed publications and has recently begun working to move bacteriophage therapy into clinical trials at IPATH. Currently, she leads a multidisciplinary team of research on HIV risk behaviors among drug users and sex workers on the Mexico-US border.

• International Health
• Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs
• Population, Reproductive and Sexual Health
• HIV/AIDS