Fellowships

The Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine at UCSF offers a competitive one-year HIV Clinical Fellowship aimed at addressing the workforce shortage of HIV providers in the United States. Started in 2004, this intensive program provides hands-on training in HIV clinical care under the mentorship of experienced faculty, focusing on managing complications, antiretroviral therapy, and providing leadership in HIV medicine, and is funded by unrestricted educational grants or the HIV Medical Association's Clinical Fellowship.

Our NIH-funded HIV Translational Research T32 program aims to provide rigorous training for physicians in high-impact HIV research areas, with an emphasis on critical thinking and methods that prepare trainees for a dynamic research career. The program is co-directed by two physician-scientists (Havlir and Deeks) who have extensive and complementary experience across the spectrum of translational research via laboratory-based, clinical, implementation, and population-level research in HIV and its complications in domestic and international settings. The Directors are supported by an Executive Committee of distinguished and diverse investigators that will ensure linkage of UCSF research training, pilot funding, laboratory work, and resources such as the UCSF Center for AIDS Research, CFAR (Gandhi and Hunt), Prevention and Vaccine Networks (Buchbinder), and diversity initiatives (Marquez).

Each trainee works with a primary mentor and a mentorship team that develop and support individualized training plans. At the completion of the program, graduates will have achieved the following: (1) be well on their way to becoming productive, independent researchers at an academic or other public or private research entity; (2) have a track record of publications; and, when applicable, (3) have secured NIH K-level funding, VA career development awards, R21, or R01 funding. We strive to train the leading HIV scientists of the future, and for these leaders to consist of persons of diverse gender, racial, and ethnic backgrounds.

The UCSF Primary Care Addiction Medicine Fellowship is designed to empower primary care physicians with the expertise to take leadership roles in addressing unhealthy substance use within the safety net communities of the San Francisco Bay Area. Fellows, having completed their residency in their primary specialty, undergo comprehensive training that emphasizes patient-centered communication, integration of addiction medicine services, and harm reduction practices through clinical rotations and scholarly projects.

The Division of HIV, ID & Global Medicine at ZSFG is a primary training site for clinical care and research for the Adult Infectious Diseases Fellowship program of the ​​​​​​Division of Infectious Diseases at UCSF Health.