Elizabeth Fair, PhD, MPH
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

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.

• 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 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 …
• Home-based tuberculosis contact investigation in Uganda: a household randomised trial.
  ERJ open research 2019 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
• Impact of Choice of Test for Latent Tuberculosis Infection on Treatment Acceptance and Completion.
  Microbiology insights 2018 Lambert LA, Katz D, Feng PJ, Djojonegoro BM, Fair E, Jasuja S, Marantz S, Horsburgh CR, Ho C
• Linking private, for-profit providers to public sector services for HIV and tuberculosis co-infected patients: A systematic review.
  PloS one 2018 Hudson M, Rutherford GW, Weiser S, Fair E
• Drop-out from the tuberculosis contact investigation cascade in a routine public health setting in urban Uganda: A prospective, multi-center study.
  PloS one 2017 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
• '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 Miller C, Huston J, Samu L, Mfinanga S, Hopewell P, Fair E
• Identifying barriers to and facilitators of tuberculosis contact investigation in Kampala, Uganda: a behavioral approach.
  Implementation science : IS 2017 Ayakaka I, Ackerman S, Ggita JM, Kajubi P, Dowdy D, Haberer JE, Fair E, Hopewell P, Handley MA, Cattamanchi A, Katamba A, Davis JL
• 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 Fair E, Miller CR, Ottmani SE, Fox GJ, Hopewell PC
• Updating the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care. Entering the era of molecular diagnostics.
  Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2014 Hopewell PC, Fair EL, Uplekar M
• 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 World Health Organization
• International Standards for Tuberculosis Care: revisiting the cornerstones of tuberculosis care and control.
  Expert review of anti-infective therapy 2007 Fair E, Hopewell PC, Pai M
• Handbook for Using the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care
  Handbook for Using the International Standards for Tuberculosis Care. 2007 Tuberculosis Coalition for Technical Assistance
• Microevolution of the direct repeat locus of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a strain prevalent in San Francisco.
  Journal of clinical microbiology 2006 Aga RS, Fair E, Abernethy NF, Deriemer K, Paz EA, Kawamura LM, Small PM, Kato-Maeda M
• Molecular epidemiologic investigation of tuberculosis in an area of increasing incidence in inner-city Dublin.
  Irish medical journal 2006 Fair E, O'Meara M, Corbally N, Keogh B, Hannan M
• Younger age at vaccination may increase risk of varicella vaccine failure.
  The Journal of infectious diseases 2002 Galil K, Fair E, Mountcastle N, Britz P, Seward J
• Philosophic objection to vaccination as a risk for tetanus among children younger than 15 years.
  Pediatrics 2002 Fair E, Murphy TV, Golaz A, Wharton M
• Intussusception among infants given an oral rotavirus vaccine.
  The New England journal of medicine 2001 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, Rotavirus Intussusception Investigation Team