Susie Welty
Academic Program Manager
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susie.welty@ucsf.edu 415-476-5797
Susie Welty is a Senior Advisor for Business Development in the Institute for Global Health Sciences. She supports cross-collaboration across the Institute and UCSF. She also is the project director for CDC funded Global Health Security work in Latin America and the Middle East and Recent Infection Surveillance for HIV in PEPFAR countries.
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She has been involved in developing surveillance systems, supporting data use, and identifying innovative solutions to address the most pressing public health problems. She works closely with academic institutions in low and middle income countries to co-create programs and collaborate. She was part of a team that developed a masters program in Health Monitoring and Evaluation at Mzumbe University in Tanzania.
Before coming to UCSF in 2009, Ms. Welty was a Project Manager for Monitoring and Evaluation at the Institute for OneWorld Health where she worked on a Phase IV trial of a drug for visceral leishmaniasis.
After completing her MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, Berkeley in 2007, she worked for the Harvard School of Public Health in Tanzania as a Study Coordinator for a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of multivitamins on HIV/AIDS disease progression. Prior to her graduate studies, she was the Program Manager for the Program on Ethical Issues in International Health Research at the Harvard School of Public Health.
She has an established record of leading research teams to make use of complex routinely collected public health data. She has domain expertise in analytics using innovative social network and modeling methods, managing complex qualitative and quantitative data, data quality, leadership, communicating data findings visually, and problem solving in complex settings. She combines 15 years of experience in statistical analysis and modeling with a deep understanding of health outcomes.
Education & Training
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- MPH Epidemiology and Biostatistics University of California Berkeley 05/2007
- BS Biology Campbell University 05/2001
Publications (16)
Top publication keywords:
HIV AntigensImmunoassayHIV InfectionsSexual and Gender MinoritiesAIDS SerodiagnosisAsymptomatic InfectionsTanzaniaSpatial AnalysisSexual PartnersSex WorkersPrimary PreventionKenyaSentinel SurveillanceSubstance Abuse, IntravenousGlucosephosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency
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Factors Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Settings of High COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage: A Case-Control Study.
American journal of epidemiology 2022 Reid MJA, Bulfone TC, Blat C, Chen YH, Rutherford GW, Philip S, Gutierrez-Mock L, Nickerson A, Buback L, Welty S, Reingold A, Enanoria WTA -
Virtual Trainings Effectively Prepared the Public Health Workforce to Support Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic in California in 2021.
Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP 2022 Kiernan B, Alonis A, Diala JA, Willard-Grace R, Welty S, White K, Dorian A, Dunn C, Peare A, Westfall M, Shodahl S, Brickley DB -
Outdoor Activities Associated with Lower Odds of SARS-CoV-2 Acquisition: A Case-Control Study.
International journal of environmental research and public health 2022 Bulfone TC, Blat C, Chen YH, Rutherford GW, Gutierrez-Mock L, Nickerson A, Buback L, Welty S, Sokal-Gutierrez K, Enanoria WTA, Reid MJA -
Geospatial Transmission Hotspots of Recent HIV Infection - Malawi, October 2019-March 2020.
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2022 Telford CT, Tessema Z, Msukwa M, Arons MM, Theu J, Bangara FF, Ernst A, Welty S, O'Malley G, Dobbs T, Shanmugam V, Kabaghe A, Dale H, Wadonda-Kabondo N, Gugsa S, Kim A, Bello G, Eaton JW, Jahn A, … -
Performance of a novel rapid test for recent HIV infection among newly-diagnosed pregnant adolescent girls and young women in four high-HIV-prevalence districts-Malawi, 2017-2018.
PloS one 2022 Agyemang EA, Kim AA, Dobbs T, Zungu I, Payne D, Maher AD, Curran K, Kim E, Kwalira H, Limula H, Adhikari A, Welty S, Kandulu J, Nyirenda R, Auld AF, Rutherford GW, Parekh BS
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Experiences and lessons learned from the real-world implementation of an HIV recent infection testing algorithm in three routine service-delivery settings in Kenya and Zimbabwe.
BMC health services research 2021 de Wit MM, Rice B, Risher K, Welty S, Waruiru W, Magutshwa S, Motoku J, Kwaro D, Ochieng B, Reniers G, Cowan F, Rutherford G, Hargreaves JR, Murphy G -
Can HIV recent infection surveillance help us better understand where primary prevention efforts should be targeted? Results of three pilots integrating a recent infection testing algorithm into routine programme activities in Kenya and Zimbabwe.
Journal of the International AIDS Society 2020 Rice BD, de Wit M, Welty S, Risher K, Cowan FM, Murphy G, Chabata ST, Waruiru W, Magutshwa S, Motoku J, Kwaro D, Ochieng B, Reniers G, Rutherford G -
Brief Report: Recent HIV Infection Surveillance in Routine HIV Testing in Nairobi, Kenya: A Feasibility Study.
Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) 2020 Welty S, Motoku J, Muriithi C, Rice B, de Wit M, Ashanda B, Waruiru W, Mirjahangir J, Kingwara L, Bauer R, Njoroge D, Karimi J, Njoroge A, Rutherford GW -
Undiagnosed and Untreated HIV Infection Among Persons Who Inject Drugs: Results of Three National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Surveys, San Francisco, 2009-2015.
AIDS and behavior 2019 Kim N, Welty S, Reza T, Sears D, McFarland W, Raymond HF -
Illicit Drug Users in the Tanzanian Hinterland: Population Size Estimation Through Key Informant-Driven Hot Spot Mapping.
AIDS and behavior 2018 Ndayongeje J, Msami A, Laurent YI, Mwankemwa S, Makumbuli M, Ngonyani AM, Tiberio J, Welty S, Said C, Morris MD, McFarland W -
Risk Behaviors and Perceptions Among Self-identified Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM), Bisexuals, Transvestites, and Transgender Women in Western Guatemala.
AIDS and behavior 2018 Ikeda JM, Racancoj O, Welty S, Page K, Hearst N, McFarland W -
Prevalence and risk factors for asymptomatic malaria and genotyping of glucose 6-phosphate (G6PD) deficiencies in a vivax-predominant setting, Lao PDR: implications for sub-national elimination goals.
Malaria journal 2018 Lover AA, Dantzer E, Hongvanthong B, Chindavongsa K, Welty S, Reza T, Khim N, Menard D, Bennett A -
HIV and hepatitis B and C co-infection among people who inject drugs in Zanzibar.
BMC public health 2017 Khatib A, Matiko E, Khalid F, Welty S, Ali A, Othman A, Haji S, Dahoma M, Rutherford G -
Context and characteristics of illicit drug use in coastal and interior Tanzania.
The International journal on drug policy 2017 Tiberio J, Laurent YI, Ndayongeje J, Msami A, Welty S, Ngonyani A, Mwankemwa S, Makumbuli M, McFarland W, Morris MD -
Reproducibility of Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) in Repeat Surveys of Men Who have Sex with Men, Unguja, Zanzibar.
AIDS and behavior 2017 Khatib A, Haji S, Khamis M, Said C, Khalid F, Dahoma M, Ali A, Othman A, Welty S, McFarland W -
HIV prevalence and risk behaviors among people who inject drugs in two serial cross-sectional respondent-driven sampling surveys, Zanzibar 2007 and 2012.
AIDS and behavior 2015 Matiko E, Khatib A, Khalid F, Welty S, Said C, Ali A, Othman A, Haji S, Kibona M, Kim E, Broz D, Dahoma M