A-Z List of ARI Programs Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Group (AACTG) AIDS Action Network (UCSF student AIDS advocacy group) AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (ACSR) AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) National Resource Center AIDS Health Project AIDS Policy Research Center AIDS Research Institute at UCSF Laboratory of Clinical Virology AIDS Specimen Bank

ASPIRE (AIDS Services—Prevention, Interventions, Research, and Education) Bay Area Perinatal AIDS Center (BAPAC) Blood Systems Research Institute (BSRI) Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) Center for HIV Information (CHI) Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV Infection and AIDS Community Consortium Craik Laboratory Drug Research Unit at San Francisco General Hospital FACES (Family AIDS Care and Education Services) Family Treatment Fund Francis J. Curry National TB Center General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) at SFGH Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology HIV InSite Institute for Global Health Intl Center of HIV/AIDS Research & Clinical Training in Nursing International Training and Education Center on HIV (I-TECH) Laboratory for Molecular Pathogenesis Laboratory of Raul Andino Laboratory of Tumor and AIDS Virus Research Moffitt/Mt. Zion General Clinical Research Genter (GCRC) National HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Consultation Center (NCCC) Options Project Osher Center for Integrative Medicine Pacific AIDS Education and Training Center (PAETC) Pediatric Clinical Research Center Positive Health Program at SFGH Positive Health Program Education Unit San Francisco Area (UCSF) AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC) San Francisco Department of Public Health, AIDS Office San Francisco Department of Public Health, HIV Research Section 360: The Positive Care Center at UCSF UCSF Global Health Sciences UCSF Nursing HIV/AIDS Center UCSF-GIVI Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Women's Global Health Imperative Women's HIV Interdisciplinary Network Women's HIV Program at UCSF Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS)

ari scientists

George W. Rutherford, MD

Dr. Rutherford is the Salvatore Pablo Lucia Professor of Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine, and Pediatrics; director of the Institute for Global Health; head of the Division of Preventive Medicine and Public Health; and vice chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at UCSF. He is also adjunct professor of epidemiology and health administration at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. Educated at Stanford University and Duke University School of Medicine, he is board certified in pediatrics and general preventive medicine and public health.

He has worked primarily in public health, with an emphasis on the epidemiology and control of communicable diseases. He has held a number of positions in public health agencies, including serving as state health officer and state epidemiologist for California, director of the AIDS Office for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, director of immunizations for the New York City Department of Health, and EIS officer at the CDC. He has been in academic epidemiology and public health since 1995.

Dr. Rutherford is director of the International Core at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies and coordinating editor of the Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV Infection and AIDS at UCSF. He also directs the joint UCSF–UC Berkeley Residency Program in General Preventive Medicine and Public Health.

Dr. Rutherford’s research interests include the epidemiology and control of HIV infection especially in the developing world, the prevention of coccidioidomycosis, STD control, pediatric vaccination policy, the role of public health in managed care, evidence-based public health practice, the epidemiology and control of tuberculosis, emerging infectious diseases, and bioterrorism. He has a special interest in meta-analysis. He is also principal investigator of the University Technical Assistance Program with the CDC and works in collaboration with the CDC’s Global AIDS Program on projects in Angola, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, and Vietnam. He is an advisor to the World Health Organization and the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV and AIDS, and is vice chair of the HIV Knowledge Hub for the WHO Regional Office of Europe, based at the University of Zagreb in Croatia.

He currently chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Epidemiology and the California Tuberculosis Elimination Advisory Committee. He has served on several recent Institute of Medicine committees and is a current a member of the Committee on Methodologic Challenges in HIV Prevention Research Trials.