Kara Lugtu, MPH
Program Coordinator
Family Community Medicine
School of Medicine

A public health professional with almost 6 years experience in a variety of settings including clinics, research, training, stakeholder engagement, policy, and program development, capable of producing results across multiple simultaneous projects.

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She has been a part of various collaborations focused on planning processes, project implementation, and execution of public health interventions, with partners from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH), as well as local and state-level funders.

Education & Training

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• MPH Public Health Touro University, California
• BA Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley

Publications (4)

Top publication keywords:
Middle AgedCytokinesImmunoglobulin GPilot ProjectsSmoking CessationRNA, ViralAntibodies, ViralHumansAgedAdultCommunity Health CentersBiomarkersCounselingPovertyViral Load

• Early biological markers of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
  Nature communications 2024 Lu S, Peluso MJ, Glidden DV, Davidson MC, Lugtu K, Pineda-Ramirez J, Tassetto M, Garcia-Knight M, Zhang A, Goldberg SA, Chen JY, Fortes-Cobby M, Park S, Martinez A, So M, Donovan A, Viswanathan B, Hoh…
• Smoking Cessation Support in the Context of Other Social and Behavioral Needs in Community Health Centers.
  Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM 2024 Potter MB, Tsoh JY, Lugtu K, Parra J, Bowyer V, Hessler D
• Implementation of a novel program to support colorectal cancer screening in a community health center consortium before and after the onset of COVID-19: a qualitative study of stakeholders' perspectives.
  Implementation science communications 2023 Santiago-Rodríguez EJ, Hoeft KS, Lugtu K, McGowen M, Ofman D, Adler J, Somsouk M, Potter MB
• Addressing tobacco use in the context of complex social needs: A new conceptual framework and approach to address smoking cessation in community health centers.
  PEC innovation 2021 Tsoh JY, Hessler D, Parra JR, Bowyer V, Lugtu K, Potter MB