Lee Riley, professor of epidemiology and infectious diseases

Lee Riley, MD is professor and head of the Division of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology and a member of the Division of Epidemiology at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health. He is a physician who has been trained in both epidemiology and molecular biology research. His current research work involves tuberculosis, drug-resistant bacterial infections, and infectious diseases of urban slums. He is also studying the spread of drug-resistant bacteria through globalization of the food trade. He has published more than 180 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, as well as a textbook entitled "Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: Principles and Practices." He has served as the program director at UC Berkeley for Fogarty's International Training and Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases, and he currently has collaborations in Brazil, India, Japan, and the Czech Republic.

Before joining the UC Berkeley faculty in 1996, he was an assistant professor of medicine at Cornell University Medical College. He has also worked with the Epidemic Intelligence Service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and was an infectious disease fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine. After the fellowship, he joined the World Health Organization (WHO) to work as a project manager for a program called India Biomedical Support Project in New Delhi, India for two years.