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–Bay Area Center for AIDS Research (CfAR; Gandhi and Hunt), Prevention and Vaccine Networks (Buchbinder), the Advancing Clinical Therapeutics Globally for HIV/AIDS and Other Infections network (ACTG; Luetkemeyer), and two large Martin Delaney Collaboratories focused on developing an HIV cure (HOPE and DARE; Ott and Deeks).

We strive to train the future leaders of HIV science. 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, or the equivalent. The Infectious Diseases Fellowship also hosts T32 training awards to support fellows during their research training years.

Our Addiction Medicine Fellowship prepares primary care physicians to become leaders in the care of persons affected by unhealthy substance use in the safety net communities of the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Fellows, all of whom have completed a residency in their primary specialty, will receive training in the knowledge and skills essential for the scope of practice of Addiction Medicine and to develop an identity as an addiction medicine physician.

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