Elizabeth Fair, PhD, MPH

Adjunct Professor

Elizabeth Fair, PhD, MPH is trained as infectious disease epidemiologist with a primary appointment in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. She holds affiliated faculty appointments with the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS) where she serves as the Director of Education and the UCSF Curry International Tuberculosis Center. Dr. Fair is a Co-Director of the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis.

Dr. Fair’s research interests include tuberculosis (TB), TB/HIV, global health, and implementation and operational research. Her work focuses on developing and evaluating public health interventions aimed at finding undiagnosed or under-reported TB, specifically intensified TB case finding and TB contact investigation in high TB-burden settings. Recent collaborations include projects exploring feasibility and acceptability of mobile health applications for implementation of TB contact investigation in Mozambique; use of drones and new technologies to find, diagnose, and treat TB in remote Madagascar; and causes of TB stigma in Bangladesh. She has consulted for the American Thoracic Society (ATS), World Health Organization (WHO), the Dutch Tuberculosis Group (KNCV) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Global TB team. Dr. Fair co-leads the NIH funded TB Research and Mentoring Program (TB RAMP) dedicated to mentoring early-stage investigators, based within the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis. She also co-leads the Developmental Core of the NIH Funded UC Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (UC TRAC) dedicated to mentoring UC and international early stage investigators in tuberculosis.

Dr. Fair is Director of Education for the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS) where she has served as an Associate Director for the MSc Program in Global Health Sciences (2016-17), and since 2017 has served as Director of the PhD Program in Global Health Sciences, where she teaches global health research practice and global health equity, develops innovative curricula, and mentors doctoral students.

Education
2022 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008 - Tuberculosis and Global Health, University of California, San Francisco
PhD, 2005 - Epidemiology and Infectious Disease, Stanford University School of Medicine
MPH, 1998 - Population and Family Health, Columbia University School of Public Health
AB, 1996 - Anthropology and African Studies, Harvard University
Publications

  1. Fieldhouse J, Nakiire L, Kayiwa J, Brindis CD, Mitchell A, Makumbi I, Ario AR, Fair E, Mazet JAK, Lamorde M. How feasible or useful are timeliness metrics as a tool to optimise One Health outbreak responses? BMJ global health 2024. PMID: 38991578


  2. Kaufman R, Fair E, Reid M, Mirzazadeh A. Authorship equity in global health research: who gets the credit at University of California, San Francisco? BMJ global health 2023. PMID: 37848271


  3. Fieldhouse JK, Randhawa N, Fair E, Bird B, Smith W, Mazet JAK. One Health timeliness metrics to track and evaluate outbreak response reporting: A scoping review. EClinicalMedicine 2022. PMID: 36097540


  4. Velleca M, Malekinejad M, Miller C, Abascal Miguel L, Reeves H, Hopewell P, Fair E. The yield of tuberculosis contact investigation in low- and middle-income settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC infectious diseases 2021. PMID: 34579667


  5. Dang KV, Rerolle F, Ackley SF, Irish AM, Mehta KM, Bailey I, Fair E, Miller C, Bibbins-Domingo K, Wong-Moy E, Glymour MM, Morris MD. A Randomized Study to Assess the Effect of Including the Graduate Record Examinations Results on Reviewer Scores for Underrepresented Minorities. American journal of epidemiology 2021. PMID: 33738464


  6. Bahrainwala L, Knoblauch AM, Andriamiadanarivo A, Diab MM, McKinney J, Small PM, Kahn JG, Fair E, Rakotosamimanana N, Grandjean Lapierre S. Drones and digital adherence monitoring for community-based tuberculosis control in remote Madagascar: A cost-effectiveness analysis. PloS one 2020. PMID: 32634140


  7. Reeves H, Grandjean Lapierre S, Razafindrina K, Andriamiadanarivo A, Rakotosamimanana N, Razafindranaivo T, Seimon T, Blalock B, Bello-Bravo J, Pittendrigh B, McKinney J, Small PM, Knoblauch AM, Fair E. Evaluating the use of educational videos to support the tuberculosis care cascade in remote Madagascar. The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2020. PMID: 32005304


  8. Davis JL, Turimumahoro P, Meyer AJ, Ayakaka I, Ochom E, Ggita J, Mark D, Babirye D, Okello DA, Mugabe F, Fair E, Vittinghoff E, Armstrong-Hough M, Dowdy D, Cattamanchi A, Haberer JE, Katamba A. Home-based tuberculosis contact investigation in Uganda: a household randomised trial. ERJ open research 2019. PMID: 31367636


  9. Lambert LA, Katz D, Feng PJ, Djojonegoro BM, Fair E, Jasuja S, Marantz S, Horsburgh CR, Ho C. Impact of Choice of Test for Latent Tuberculosis Infection on Treatment Acceptance and Completion. Microbiology insights 2018. PMID: 30505150


  10. Hudson M, Rutherford GW, Weiser S, Fair E. Linking private, for-profit providers to public sector services for HIV and tuberculosis co-infected patients: A systematic review. PloS one 2018. PMID: 29634772


  11. Armstrong-Hough M, Turimumahoro P, Meyer AJ, Ochom E, Babirye D, Ayakaka I, Mark D, Ggita J, Cattamanchi A, Dowdy D, Mugabe F, Fair E, Haberer JE, Katamba A, Davis JL. Drop-out from the tuberculosis contact investigation cascade in a routine public health setting in urban Uganda: A prospective, multi-center study. Volume 12 of Issue 11. PloS one 2017. PMID: 29108007


  12. Miller C, Huston J, Samu L, Mfinanga S, Hopewell P, Fair E. 'It makes the patient's spirit weaker': tuberculosis stigma and gender interaction in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2017. PMID: 29025484


  13. Ayakaka I, Ackerman S, Ggita JM, Kajubi P, Dowdy D, Haberer JE, Fair E, Hopewell P, Handley MA, Cattamanchi A, Katamba A, Davis JL. Identifying barriers to and facilitators of tuberculosis contact investigation in Kampala, Uganda: a behavioral approach. Volume 12 of Issue 1. Implementation science : IS 2017. PMID: 28274245


  14. Fair E, Miller CR, Ottmani SE, Fox GJ, Hopewell PC. Tuberculosis contact investigation in low- and middle-income countries: standardized definitions and indicators. The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2015. PMID: 25686131


  15. Hopewell PC, Fair EL, Uplekar M. Updating the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care. Entering the era of molecular diagnostics. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2014. PMID: 24673691


  16. World Health Organization. Recommendations for investigating contacts of persons with infectious tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries Recommendations for investigating contacts of persons with infectious tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries. 2012. PMID:


  17. Fair E, Hopewell PC, Pai M. International Standards for Tuberculosis Care: revisiting the cornerstones of tuberculosis care and control. Expert review of anti-infective therapy 2007. PMID: 17266454


  18. Tuberculosis Coalition for Technical Assistance. Handbook for Using the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care Handbook for Using the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care. 2007. PMID:


  19. Aga RS, Fair E, Abernethy NF, Deriemer K, Paz EA, Kawamura LM, Small PM, Kato-Maeda M. Microevolution of the direct repeat locus of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a strain prevalent in San Francisco. Journal of clinical microbiology 2006. PMID: 16597893


  20. Fair E, O'Meara M, Corbally N, Keogh B, Hannan M. Molecular epidemiologic investigation of tuberculosis in an area of increasing incidence in inner-city Dublin. Irish medical journal 2006. PMID: 16700262


  21. Galil K, Fair E, Mountcastle N, Britz P, Seward J. Younger age at vaccination may increase risk of varicella vaccine failure. The Journal of infectious diseases 2002. PMID: 12089668


  22. Fair E, Murphy TV, Golaz A, Wharton M. Philosophic objection to vaccination as a risk for tetanus among children younger than 15 years. Pediatrics 2002. PMID: 11773570


  23. Murphy TV, Gargiullo PM, Massoudi MS, Nelson DB, Jumaan AO, Okoro CA, Zanardi LR, Setia S, Fair E, LeBaron CW, Wharton M, Livengood JR, Livingood JR. Intussusception among infants given an oral rotavirus vaccine. The New England journal of medicine 2001. PMID: 11207352