- Director, Program Development
- Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
As senior advisor to UCSF Global Health Sciences, Sarah Macfarlane brings
extensive expertise in statistics and epidemiology to the program. A native
of Great Britain, she formerly served as associate director in the Health
Equity Theme of the Rockefeller Foundation, where she had responsibility
for programs to improve public health and research capacities in sub-Saharan
Africa and Southeast Asia. Previously, as a reader at the Liverpool School
of Tropical Medicine, she headed the Unit for Statistics and Epidemiology.
In addition to her responsibilities with Global Health Sciences, Sarah
Macfarlane coordinates a PARIS 21 Task Team seeking ways to improve data
sharing between sectors and disciplines. She is a fellow of the Faculty
of Public Health of the Royal Colleges of Physicians; a chartered statistician
of The Royal Statistical Society, UK; and received a master's degree in
operational research from the London School of Economics, London University.
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