SUPR Speaker Series

Natasha Ludwig-Barron, PhD, MPH, is a Chicana Epidemiologist and Assistant Professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Department of Medicine, Division of Prevention Science with more than 15-years of public health research and practice. She applies mixed methods and ecological approaches to understanding the co-occurring epidemics of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, substance use, and gender inequity, with the goal of improving the health and wellbeing of marginalized communities in the US, Mexico and Kenya. Dr. Ludwig-Barron earned an MPH at Emory University, PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Washington and completed her post-doctoral training at UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. Since joining UCSF faculty, Dr. Ludwig-Barron has conducted three community-based, harm reduction pilot studies along the Texas-Mexico Border and was awarded a K01 that merges implementation science with phylogenetic analysis to address the co-occurring epidemics of HIV, hepatitis C, and opioid use among people who inject drugs in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. She was recently awarded a California HIV/AIDS Research Program (CHRP) Grant, which tests a universal opt-out HIV and primary health screenings for people who use drugs in Greater Los Angeles Area, and received the 2026 John A. Watson Faculty Scholar Award for her research and mentoring impact in Latino communities.