The Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Applied Studies (IDEAS) Initiative and the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (IIGH) invite you to a virtual seminar featuring Dr. Steffanie Strathdee, Harold Simon Distinguished Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Strathdee also serves as a Co-director of UCSD’s center for Innovative Phage Applications and Therapeutics (IPATH) and the International Core of UCSD’s Center for AIDS Research. 

An infectious disease epidemiologist, she has spent the last two decades focusing on HIV prevention in marginalized populations in developing countries and has published over 700 peer-reviewed publications. Currently, she leads a multidisciplinary team of research on HIV risk behaviors among people who use drugs on the Mexico-US border.

She has co-authored her memoir, The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug (https://theperfectpredator.com/), which was published in 2019. It discusses how she, her colleagues at UC San Diego and a global village of phage researchers sought bacteriophage therapy to save her husband from a life-threatening multidrug resistant bacterial infection. For her efforts to revitalize phage therapy in North America, she was named as one of TIME's 50 Most Influential People in Health Care in 2018.

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