Susie Welty

MPH

Director of Strategic Initiatives

https://profiles.ucsf.edu/susie.welty

Susie Welty is the lead on special initiatives for the UCSF Pandemic Initiative for Equity and Inclusion (UPIEA). She has 15 years of public health experience primarily in HIV/AIDS in east Africa. She works as a contact tracer, case investigator, team lead, and trainer for the San Francisco Department of Public Health pandemic response. She also supports new initiatives for UPIEA. Susie grew up in a Quechua Indian village in Ecuador, and witnessed firsthand people turned away from health care because of their ethnicity. She went into public health with a heart for working toward equitable access to health for all. Up until the COVID-19 pandemic her work had been overseas, Susie joined UPIEA to bring the fight for health equity home.

Publications

Evaluation of a novel virtual reality training intervention to address implicit bias among healthcare workers, using an implementation science framework.

PloS one

Olmos-Rodriguez M, Anicete LM, Wilson N, Gutierrez-Mock L, Bailenson JN, Mirzazadeh A, Harris OO, Dandu M, Welty S, Fernandez A, Rojo EM, Harris S, Taylor KD, Reid MJA

Pandemic preparedness and response priorities in Latin America: A regional Delphi consensus.

Public health

Méndez Lizárraga CA, Armas-González R, Loyola S, Bruno A, Pando-Robles V, Fernández-Niño JA, Muñoz RF, Coloma J, Lescano AG, Bravo-García E, García PJ, Garza J, Pardo E, Welty S, Reid MJA, Sepúlveda J

The impact of adherence counseling incorporating a point of care urine tenofovir assay on virologic suppression among individuals failing tenofovir-lamivudine-dolutegravir: A pre-post intervention study.

International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases

Bikinesi L, Spinelli MA, Nyoni N, Mouton D, Mengistu A, Kamangu J, Konstantinus I, Kalimugogo P, Mutandi G, Negussie F, Wang G, Welty S, McFarland W, Beard RS, Haberer J, McCluskey S, Gandhi M, Hong SY

Factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 transmission in setting of high COVID-19 vaccination coverage: a case-control study.

American journal of epidemiology

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

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

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

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, Nyirenda R, Parekh BS, Shiraishi RW, Kim E, Tobias JL, Curran KG, Payne D, Auld AF

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

Lover AA, Dantzer E, Hongvanthong B, Chindavongsa K, Welty S, Reza T, Khim N, Menard D, Bennett A

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

Matiko E, Khatib A, Khalid F, Welty S, Said C, Ali A, Othman A, Haji S, Kibona M, Kim E, Broz D, Dahoma M

Publications

Evaluation of a novel virtual reality training intervention to address implicit bias among healthcare workers, using an implementation science framework.

Pandemic preparedness and response priorities in Latin America: A regional Delphi consensus.

The impact of adherence counseling incorporating a point of care urine tenofovir assay on virologic suppression among individuals failing tenofovir-lamivudine-dolutegravir: A pre-post intervention study.

Factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 transmission in setting of high COVID-19 vaccination coverage: a case-control study.

Virtual Trainings Effectively Prepared the Public Health Workforce to Support Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic in California in 2021.

Outdoor Activities Associated with Lower Odds of SARS-CoV-2 Acquisition: A Case-Control Study.

Geospatial Transmission Hotspots of Recent HIV Infection - Malawi, October 2019-March 2020.

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.

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.

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.

Brief Report: Recent HIV Infection Surveillance in Routine HIV Testing in Nairobi, Kenya: A Feasibility Study.

Undiagnosed and Untreated HIV Infection Among Persons Who Inject Drugs: Results of Three National HIV Behavioral Surveillance Surveys, San Francisco, 2009-2015.

Illicit Drug Users in the Tanzanian Hinterland: Population Size Estimation Through Key Informant-Driven Hot Spot Mapping.

Risk Behaviors and Perceptions Among Self-identified Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM), Bisexuals, Transvestites, and Transgender Women in Western Guatemala.

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.

HIV and hepatitis B and C co-infection among people who inject drugs in Zanzibar.

Context and characteristics of illicit drug use in coastal and interior Tanzania.

Reproducibility of Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) in Repeat Surveys of Men Who have Sex with Men, Unguja, Zanzibar.

HIV prevalence and risk behaviors among people who inject drugs in two serial cross-sectional respondent-driven sampling surveys, Zanzibar 2007 and 2012.