Jess Celentano
Deputy Director
Pandemic Prep & Response
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

Jess has a split appointment between the Institute for Global Health Sciences where she is the Management Lead in the Center for Pandemic Preparedness and the SON's Institute for Health and Aging where she serves as the Chief Administrative Officer.

Awards

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• Chancellor Award for Public Service, UCSF, 2021

Education & Training

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• MS Global Health Harvard School of Public Health

Publications (4)

Top publication keywords:
Contact TracingHumansSocial WorkSan FranciscoCohort StudiesHealth PersonnelResilience, PsychologicalClinical CompetenceEfficiency, OrganizationalQuarantinePublic Health AdministrationPandemicsHIV InfectionsCurriculum

• Evaluating the impact of a multicountry interprofessional training programme to improve HIV knowledge and clinical confidence among healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa: a cohort study.
  BMJ open 2022 Kiguli-Malwadde E, Forster M, Martin S, Chilemba E, Couper I, Motlhatlhedi K, Celentano J, Haruzivishe C, Sears D, Budak JZ, Khanyola JN, Von Zinkernagel D, Molwantwa M, Semitala F, de Villiers M, …
• Evaluating the Impact of Language Concordance on Coronavirus Disease 2019 Contact Tracing Outcomes Among Spanish-Speaking Adults in San Francisco Between June and November 2020.
  Open forum infectious diseases 2021 Eliaz A, Blair AH, Chen YH, Fernandez A, Ernst A, Mirjahangir J, Celentano J, Sachdev D, Enanoria W, Reid MJA
• The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: the race to trace: contact tracing scale-up in San Francisco-early lessons learned.
  Journal of public health policy 2021 Reid M, Enanoria W, Stoltey J, Philip S, Fuchs J, Lockwood A, Krueger E, White K, Celentano J, Rutherford G, Scheer S, Nguyen T, Sachdev D
• Mobilizing a COVID-19 Contact Tracing Workforce at Warp Speed: A Framework for Successful Program Implementation.
  The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2021 Celentano J, Sachdev D, Hirose M, Ernst A, Reid M