Current Research > CAPS Faculty and Staff > Kimberly Page Shafer, PhD MPH, Associate Professor

Kimberly Page Shafer, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor

Research interests

HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), sexually transmitted infections, bloodborne infections, prevention, transmission dynamics, chemoprophylaxis, vaccine research, acute HCV infection, viral clearance, international research, international training, injection drug users, sex workers, vulnerable populations, incarceration

Current research

• Acute HCV infection in young Injectors
• State of CA , DHS - Studying Drug-using Population in 5 Northern California Counties
• Hepatitis C: Studies of Immunity and Pathogenesis
• Safety and pharmacokinetics of tenofovir and emtricitabine in HIV negative Thai women (preparatory phase)
• Chemoprophylaxis for HIV prevention in Peruvian men
• A randomized trial of vaccine adherence in young injectors
• International Clinical, Operational and Health Services Research and Training Award
• International Traineeships in AIDS Prevention Studies (ITAPS)
• Center for AIDS Prevention Studies/International Core
• Community based HIV Prevention in high risk young women in Cambodia

Education

• 1998, Fellow (HIV Prevention), University of California San Francisco
• 1996, Fellow (Epidemiology), Municipal Health Department (GGGD) Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• 1995, Ph.D. (Epidemiology), University of California Berkeley
• 1992, M.P.H (Epidemiology/Biostatistics), University of California Berkeley
• 1981, M.S (Physiology), North Texas State University
• 1977, B.A. (Fine Arts), University of California, Santa Barbara

Publications

Articles by Kimberly Page Shafer.

Contact

Unversity of California San Francisco
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
50 Beale Street, Suite 1200
San Francisco, CA 94105
Voice: (415) 597-4954
Fax: (415) 597-8299
E-mail: shafer@psg.ucsf.edu