Alden Blair, PhD, MS
Research Data Analyst 4
GHS - Programs
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

This sees me with over a decade of on-the ground fieldwork experience engaging with vulnerable populations in Uganda, Burundi, Cameroon, Malawi, Liberia, Canada, and the United States, building partnerships to unpack the drivers of health inequities in order to propose actionable and sustainable solutions. My research has been funded by major private and public donors including the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), the Wyss Foundation, and the NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). At UCSF I am currently the Director of Research for the Global Alliance in Nursing (GAIN) partnership and the Associate Director of the Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS) Masters of Science Program. I am also a member of the faculty at the UCSF School of Nursing. During my time at UCSF, I have been awarded the UCSF John L. Zeigler Award for Outstanding Mentorship, a UCSF SPOT Award and a UCSF Achievement Award. My current work with the UCSF GAIN partnership focuses on the identification and addressing of drivers of maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality both domestically and around the world.

• Alignment between expectations and experiences of egg donors: what does it mean to be informed?
  Reproductive biomedicine & society online 2020 Tober D, Garibaldi C, Blair A, Baltzell K
• A 14-day follow-up of adult non-malarial fever patients seen by mobile clinics in rural Malawi.
  Malawi medical journal : the journal of Medical Association of Malawi 2020 Baltzell KA, Kortz TB, Blair A, Scarr E, Mguntha AM, Bandawe G, Schell E, Rankin SH
• Hyperendemic Chlamydia trachomatis sexually transmitted infections among females represent a high burden of asymptomatic disease and health disparity among Pacific Islanders in Fiji.
  PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2020 Svigals V, Blair A, Muller S, Sahu Khan A, Faktaufon D, Kama M, Tamani T, Esfandiari L, O'Brien M, Dean D
• 'Not all fevers are malaria': a mixed methods study of non-malarial fever management in rural southern Malawi.
  Rural and remote health 2019 Baltzell K, Kortz TB, Scarr E, Blair A, Mguntha A, Bandawe G, Schell E, Rankin S
• Attacks on healthcare facilities as an indicator of violence against civilians in Syria: An exploratory analysis of open-source data.
  PloS one 2019 Ri S, Blair AH, Kim CJ, Haar RJ
• Cango Lyec (Healing the Elephant): Gender Differences in HIV Infection in Post-conflict Northern Uganda.
  Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2018 Spittal PM, Malamba SS, Ogwang MD, Musisi S, Ekwaru JP, Sewankambo NK, Pearce ME, Jongbloed K, Patel SH, Katamba A, Blair AH, Muyinda H, Schechter MT
• Characterizing Pediatric Non-Malarial Fever and Identifying the At-Risk Child in Rural Malawi.
  Global pediatric health 2018 Kortz TB, Blair A, Scarr E, Mguntha AM, Bandawe G, Schell E, Rankin S, Baltzell K
• The Cedar Project: mortality among young Indigenous people who use drugs in British Columbia.
  CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne 2017 Jongbloed K, Pearce ME, Pooyak S, Zamar D, Thomas V, Demerais L, Christian WM, Henderson E, Sharma R, Blair AH, Yoshida EM, Schechter MT, Spittal PM, Cedar Project Partnership
• The impact of BMI on non-malignant respiratory symptoms and lung function in arsenic exposed adults of Northern Chile.
  Environmental research 2017 Nardone A, Ferreccio C, Acevedo J, Enanoria W, Blair A, Smith AH, Balmes J, Steinmaus C
• The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT): Exploring the Factor Structure and Cutoff Thresholds in a Representative Post-Conflict Population in Northern Uganda.
  Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) 2017 Blair AH, Pearce ME, Katamba A, Malamba SS, Muyinda H, Schechter MT, Spittal PM
• "The Cango Lyec Project - Healing the Elephant": HIV related vulnerabilities of post-conflict affected populations aged 13-49 years living in three Mid-Northern Uganda districts.
  BMC infectious diseases 2016 Malamba SS, Muyinda H, Spittal PM, Ekwaru JP, Kiwanuka N, Ogwang MD, Odong P, Kitandwe PK, Katamba A, Jongbloed K, Sewankambo NK, Kinyanda E, Blair A, Schechter MT
• The Cedar Project * : historical trauma and vulnerability to sexual assault among young aboriginal women who use illicit drugs in two Canadian cities.
  Violence against women 2015 Pearce ME, Blair AH, Teegee M, Pan SW, Thomas V, Zhang H, Schechter MT, Spittal PM
• Changes in the 'healthy migrant effect' in Canada: are recent immigrants healthier than they were a decade ago?
  Journal of immigrant and minority health 2014 Blair AH, Schneeberg A
• The Cedar Project: impacts of policing among young Aboriginal people who use injection and non-injection drugs in British Columbia, Canada.
  The International journal on drug policy 2013 Pan SW, Christian CW, Pearce ME, Blair AH, Jongbloed K, Zhang H, Teegee M, Thomas V, Schechter MT, Spittal PM