Dear UCSF Community:

I am delighted to announce that Payam Nahid, MD, MPH, will be the next executive director of the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences (IGHS).

A renowned expert on tuberculosis who has been a member of our UCSF community for two decades, Payam has dedicated his career to advancing global health equity. He has made significant contributions to TB care for millions of people around the world through NIH- and USAID-funded studies, along with his engagements with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); and he is part of a long tradition of excellence in research on TB at UCSF.

Payam currently directs Clinical Trials Operations in the Office of Research, as well as the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis, and he oversees the Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center at UCSF and UC Berkeley, which supports TB investigators on both campuses.

TB ranks as the world’s deadliest infectious disease, and Payam’s commitment to training the next generation of TB scientists is crucial to accelerating discoveries that will have an enormous global impact.

I thank George Rutherford for serving as acting IGHS executive director since Jaime Sepúlveda’s retirement last August, as well as Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Catherine Lucey for leading a competitive, international search to fill this important post.

Please join me in congratulating Payam on his new position, which begins on April 1.

You can read more about his work at UCSF.edu.

Sincerely,

Sam Hawgood, MBBS
Chancellor
Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Distinguished Professor