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Thomas Livingston Hall MPH

Lecturer, UCSF Medical School

San Francisco, CA

Professional summary

Thomas L. Hall, MD, DrPH, is lecturer in the UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Executive Director of the Global Health Education Consortium. He received undergraduate, MD and MPH degrees from Harvard and his DrPH degree in international health from Johns Hopkins. He has held faculty appointments in the schools of public health of the Univ. of Puerto Rico, Johns Hopkins, Univ. of NC at Chapel Hill, and the Univ. of Washington (Seattle). At UNC he was director of the Carolina Population Center. Non-academic positions have included medical director of a rural hospital, director of a regional health planning agency, and Chief Medical Officer (Research) in the New Zealand Dept. of Health (1985-86). He joined UCSF in 1988, directed a postdoctoral training program in HIV research (1989-96) and since then has taught and mentored students in international health. He has consulted with WHO, the World Bank and many countries on strategic health workforce planning. He is primary author of the WHO ToolKit for Human Resources Development. — Thomas L. Hall, UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology, San Francisco, CA 94107; 415/731-7944; 415-731-3132(fax); thall@epi.ucsf.edu