Heidi Hopkins, M.D.
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Step 2
hhopkins@medsfgh.ucsf.edu

Mailing Address:
University of California, San Francisco
Division of Infectious Diseases
Box 0811
521 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0654

Office Location:
SFGH/Uganda

Research Interests:
Epidemiology of malaria, malaria diagnostics, cost-effectiveness of malaria control interventions, health care in resource-limited environments, translating research into practice

Selected Publications:
Hopkins H, Bebell L, Kambale W, Dokomajilar C, Rosenthal PJ, Dorsey G. Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria at sites of varied transmission intensity in Uganda; J Infect Dis, in press, 2007.

Hopkins H, Talisuna A, Whitty CJM, Staedke SG. Impact of home-based management of malaria in Africa on health outcomes: a systematic review of the evidence; Malaria J, in press, 2007.

Lubell Y, Hopkins H, Whitty CJM, Staedke SG, Mills A. An interactive model for choice of a rapid diagnostic test for malaria; submitted.

Hopkins H, Kambale W, Staedke S, Kamya M, Dorsey G, Rosenthal PJ. Comparison of HRP2- and pLDH-based rapid diagnostic tests for malaria with longitudinal follow-up in Kampala, Uganda. Am J Trop Med Hyg 76(6):1092-7, Jun 2007.

Kemble SK, Davis JC, Nalugwa T, Njama-Meya D, Hopkins H, Dorsey G, Staedke S. Prevention and treatment strategies used for the community management of childhood fever in Kampala, Uganda. Am J Trop Med Hyg 74(6):999-1007, Jun 2006

Education and Training:

BA, University of Iowa, 1994

MD, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, 1999

Internal Medicine residency, New York-Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia campus), 1999-2002

Infectious Diseases fellowship, UCSF, 2002-2005

MPH, University of California, Berkeley, 2005