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About

Risa Hoffman, MD, MPH, Co-Director, Global Health Education Program

Email: rhoffman@mednet.ucla.edu

Dr. Hoffman is Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. She graduated from Stanford University and received her M.D. from UCLA, and M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. After completing her MD/MPH training, she entered the Harvard Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program, completing Internal Medicine training at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Pediatric training at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children's Hospital. Dr. Hoffman completed her adult Infectious Disease training at UCLA in 2008 and has remained with the Division as junior faculty where she works closely with both the UCLA Program in Global Health (mentor Tom Coates) and the Center for AIDS Research and Education (mentor Judith Currier). Her research focus is in the area of optimizing care for HIV-infected women. She currently serves as the UCLA site PI of the PROMISE study (Promoting Maternal and Infant Survival Everywhere), an IMPAACT/ACTG sponsored clinical trial of postpartum antiretroviral treatment strategies in women with CD4 cell counts above current thresholds for treatment. She has also developed a collaboration with the Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit (RHRU) in Johannesburg, South Africa, evaluating outcomes of combination antiretroviral therapy in pregnant womenwith advanced immunosuppression. Dr. Hoffman works as part of the UCLA-based team of the EQUIP program (Expanding QUality ImProvement in Malawi), a PEPFAR/USAID- funded project focused on improving the quality of HIV care in Malawi. The project involves workforce training,integrating and strengthening linkages within the continuum of care for HIV, and performing operational research to inform the future of Malawi's HIV programs and policies.

Dr. Hoffman has an interest in supporting and improving medical education in the international setting, and is currently serving asprogram co-director of the new David Geffen School of Medicine Global Health Education Program (with UCLA colleagues Drs. Lee Miller and Tom Coates). This initiative includes developing programs for medical students and residents,networking with various UCLA medical and non-medical faculty involved in global health, and establishing foundations for the development of a global healtheducation pathway.

Dr. Hoffman continues to work in the field of pediatrics with a Malawian non-governmental organization (Children in the Wilderness) to develop nutrition and food security programs for orphans andvulnerable children in rural northern Malawi.