Alon Unger, MD
Associate Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Alon Unger, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine in the Department of Medicine. He went to medical school at UCSF and completed dual residencies in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at UCLA. He also completed a Masters in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and he has worked in various settings including South Africa, Uganda, Thailand and Brazil.

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He recently completed one year of service to Doctors without Borders in Myanmar as the HIV advisor to a large treatment program.

Currently, Alon attends on the inpatient medicine service supervising residents and medical students, and also works part-time at the San Francisco General Hospital. He has a long-standing interest in global health, and he has been involved in research and service projects in both communicable and non-communicable diseases in slum settings.

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2020
• M.D. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2007

Publications (9)

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Poverty AreasPovertyGlobal HealthHealth Services Needs and DemandHealth PrioritiesHealth PromotionAntibiotics, AntitubercularPopulation DensityUrban HealthUrban PopulationHypertensionUnited NationsMedical IndigencySocial ProblemsRifabutin

• Hypertension in a Brazilian urban slum population.
  Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2015 Unger A, Felzemburgh RD, Snyder RE, Ribeiro GS, Mohr S, Costa VB, Melendez AX, Reis RB, Santana FS, Riley LW, Reis MG, Ko AI, Pau da Lima Urban Health Team
• Arch Dis Child
  Children's health in slum setting 2013 Unger A
• Factors associated with mortality in patients with drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis.
  BMC infectious diseases 2011 Nahid P, Jarlsberg LG, Rudoy I, de Jong BC, Unger A, Kawamura LM, Osmond DH, Hopewell PC, Daley CL
• Am J Trop Med Hyg
  Association of treatment of American cutaneous leishmaniasis prior to ulcer developmen with high rate of failure in northeastern Brazil 2009 Unger A, O'Neal S, Machado PR, Guimaraes LH, Morgan DJ, Schriefer A, Bacellar O, Glesby MJ, Carvalho EM
• Slum health: from understanding to action.
  PLoS medicine 2007 Unger A, Riley LW

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• Slum health: diseases of neglected populations.
  BMC international health and human rights 2007 Riley LW, Ko AI, Unger A, Reis MG
• Treatment outcomes of patients with HIV and tuberculosis.
  American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2007 Nahid P, Gonzalez LC, Rudoy I, de Jong BC, Unger A, Kawamura LM, Osmond DH, Hopewell PC, Daley CL
• BMC Int Health Hum Rights
  Slum health: diseases of neglected populations 2007 Riley LW, Ko AI, Unger A, Reis MG
• PLoS Med
  Slum health: from understanding to action 2007 Unger A, Riley LW