Andrew Maher

MPH
Director of Learning Hub
[email protected]

For nearly 15 years, Andrew has collaborated with ministries of health, national laboratories, statistics agencies, and non-governmental organizations to monitor, prevent and train public health workers to control HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. As Director of the Learning Hub for UCSF’s Pandemic Initiative for Equity and Inclusion (UPIEA), Andrew oversees standards for the design, delivery, and evaluation of trainings related to COVID-19 preparedness and response. Andrew is inspired by his many brilliant and dedicated colleagues from Namibia, Mozambique, Malawi, Uganda and elsewhere who have led the fight against the global HIV/AIDS epidemic and looks forward to applying the many lessons learned from them to respond to the COVID-19 emergency in the U.S. 

Publications: 

Trauma-informed health coaching: A practical guide for COVID-19 and other disease intervention interviews

Public Health Challenges

Mejía P, Smith Di Faustino L, DiGiammarino A, Sigerman T, Sanchez S, Dunn C, Tougas J, Krygern V, Maher AD, Willard-Grace R

Rapid and sustained contact tracing training for COVID-19 in San Francisco: a training model for developing an emergency public health workforce.

Frontiers in public health

Martin S, Kalra A, Jenny A, Maher AD, Foreman A, Chavez A, Gagliano J, Reid MJA, Brickley DB

Health Coaching Across the Stages of Vaccine Readiness and Action: A Practical Guide for Public Health Nurses.

American journal of public health

Harris OO, Taylor KD, Maher A, Willard-Grace R

Use of HIV Recency Assays for HIV Incidence Estimation and Other Surveillance Use Cases: Systematic Review.

JMIR public health and surveillance

Facente SN, Grebe E, Maher AD, Fox D, Scheer S, Mahy M, Dalal S, Lowrance D, Marsh K

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

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

MERS-CoV Confirmation among 6,873 suspected persons and relevant Epidemiologic and Clinical Features, Saudi Arabia - 2014 to 2019.

EClinicalMedicine

Ebrahim SH, Maher AD, Kanagasabai U, Alfaraj SH, Alzahrani NA, Alqahtani SA, Assiri AM, Memish ZA

Establishment and Evaluation of a Large Contact-Tracing and Case Investigation Virtual Training Academy.

American journal of public health

Golston O, Prelip M, Brickley DB, Cass A, Chen L, Dorian A, Gandelman A, Keh C, Maher A, Myrick R, Reid MJA, White K, Willard-Grace R, Shafir S

California's COVID-19 Virtual Training Academy: Rapid Scale-Up of a Statewide Contact Tracing and Case Investigation Workforce Training Program.

Frontiers in public health

Brickley DB, Forster M, Alonis A, Antonyan E, Chen L, DiGiammarino A, Dorian A, Dunn C, Gandelman A, Grasso M, Kiureghian A, Maher AD, Malan H, Mejia P, Peare A, Prelip M, Shafir S, White K, Willard-Grace R, Reid M

Rates and Correlates of HIV Incidence in Namibia's Zambezi Region From 2014 to 2016: Sentinel, Community-Based Cohort Study.

JMIR public health and surveillance

Maher AD, Nakanyala T, Mutenda N, Banda KM, Prybylski D, Wolkon A, Jonas A, Sawadogo S, Ntema C, Chipadze MR, Sinvula G, Tizora A, Mwandemele A, Chaturvedi S, Agovi AM, Agolory S, Hamunime N, Lowrance DW, Mcfarland W, Patel SV

HIV Prevalence, Risk Factors for Infection, and Uptake of Prevention, Testing, and Treatment among Female Sex Workers in Namibia.

Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health

Jonas A, Patel SV, Katuta F, Maher AD, Banda KM, Gerndt K, Pietersen I, Menezes de Prata N, Mutenda N, Nakanyala T, Kisting E, Kawana B, Nietschke AM, Prybylski D, McFarland W, Lowrance DW

Estimating the Population Size of Female Sex Workers in Namibia Using a Respondent-Driven Sampling Adjustment to the Reverse Tracking Method: A Novel Approach.

JMIR public health and surveillance

Wesson PD, Adhikary R, Jonas A, Gerndt K, Mirzazadeh A, Katuta F, Maher A, Banda K, Mutenda N, McFarland W, Lowrance D, Prybylski D, Patel S

Task-shifting point-of-care CD4+ testing to lay health workers in HIV care and treatment services in Namibia.

African Journal of Laboratory Medicine

Kaindjee-Tjituka F, Sawadogo S, Mutandi G, Maher AD, Salomo N, Mbapaha C, Neo M, Beukes A, Gweshe J, Muadinohamba A, Lowrance DW

Estimated Prevalence of Cryptococcus Antigenemia (CrAg) among HIV-Infected Adults with Advanced Immunosuppression in Namibia Justifies Routine Screening and Preemptive Treatment.

PloS one

Sawadogo S, Makumbi B, Purfield A, Ndjavera C, Mutandi G, Maher A, Kaindjee-Tjituka F, Kaplan JE, Park BJ, Lowrance DW

Limited utility of dried-blood- and plasma spot-based screening for antiretroviral treatment failure with Cobas Ampliprep/TaqMan HIV-1 version 2.0.

Journal of clinical microbiology

Sawadogo S, Shiningavamwe A, Chang J, Maher AD, Zhang G, Yang C, Gaeb E, Kaura H, Ellenberger D, Lowrance DW

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