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Tomás Aragón, Medical Epidemiologist

Tomás Aragón

Dr. Tomás Aragón is adjunct faculty at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, where he is Principal Investigator, Cal PREPARE at the Center for Infectious Diseases and Emergency Readiness. He is trained in primary care internal medicine (UC San Francisco / SF General Hospital), clinical infectious diseases (UCSF), HIV/AIDS research fellowship (UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies), and epidemiology (DrPH, UC Berkeley School of Public Health).

Dr. Aragón is also Health Officer, City and County of San Francisco; and Director, Population Health & Prevention (PHP), San Francisco Department of Public Health. As health officer, he exercises leadership and legal authority to protect and promote health and health equity for all. As PHP Director, he directs services in communicable disease prevention and control, environmental and occupational health, public health laboratories, health promotion and disease and injury prevention, and emergency preparedness and response.

LINKS: medepi.com (home) | Curriculum vitae (PDF)

Posts by Tomás Aragón

2-13-13Health & Medicine: What's on your mind?San Francisco plastic-bag ban associated with 46% increase in foodborne illness deaths — Not!
9-1-12Health & Medicine: What's on your mind?Thoughts on health leadership
9-1-12Health & Medicine: What's on your mind?A healthier San Francisco through alignment, connections, equity (ACE)
4-28-12Health & Medicine: What's on your mind?Health care workers have ethical responsibility to protect their patients from preventable infectious diseases