The UCSF Master’s in Global Health Sciences prepares graduates for careers that are as diverse as the field of global health.
Our alums go on to careers in teaching, research, program management and more. They pursue advanced training or professional education, such as medical school, residency, fellowship or a doctoral program. They work in sectors such as health care, government, NGOs, academia and the private sector. Many graduates are hired by UCSF and our partners.
Alumni Job Sectors
2009-2024
![A pie chart showing the employment sectors of 473 alumni. The sectors are broken down as follows: Academia 50%, For-profit 16%, Unknown 13%, Non-profit 12%, Government 6%, Academic-non profit collaboration 2%, and Other 1%.](https://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/wp-content/plugins/phastpress/phast.php?service=images&src=https%3A%2F%2Fglobalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F12%2FSectors-1024x868.png&cacheMarker=1734981393-85187&token=ff6c7d3e13756946)
Alumni Job Functions
2009-2024
![A horizontal bar chart showing the main job functions of 307 alumni survey respondents. Healthcare provider is the most common with 128 respondents, followed by Unknown with 48, Completing further education: MD with 44, and Research staff or technical director with 20. Business development, consulting, and strategic alliances has 15 respondents, while Epidemiology/public health has 13, and Administration has 9. Several categories have 6 respondents each: Completing further education: other professional, Science policy and government affairs, and Technical support and product development. Clinical research management, Clinical services, Data science, analytics, and software engineering, and Science education and outreach each have 3 respondents.](https://globalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu/wp-content/plugins/phastpress/phast.php?service=images&src=https%3A%2F%2Fglobalhealthsciences.ucsf.edu%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F12%2FJobFunctions-1024x1024.png&cacheMarker=1734981517-117396&token=614a17a04625dd93)
See more career outcomes compiled by the UCSF Graduate Division.
Global Health Graduates Today
Anika Kalra, MS ’20, program coordinator, Pandemic Initiative for Equity and Action, UCSF
Jorge Ramírez, MD, MS ’16, director, Global Health Program, School of Public Health, University of Chile; emergency medicine doctor
Laila Soudi, MS ’15, founder and director, Sana Relief, Stanford University School of Medicine
Jennifer Zech, MS ’15, project officer, OpCon, ICAP, Columbia University
John Weinstein, PhD, MS ’14, assistant professor, Boston University School of Medicine
Ingrid Chen, PhD, MS ’13, assistant professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Malaria Elimination Initiative, UCSF
Stephanie Klees, MD, MS ’13, pediatrics faculty, Rwanda Human Resources for Health, Yale University, Rwanda
Nicole Santos, PhD, MS ’13, discovery research manager, Preterm Birth Initiative-East Africa, UCSF
Megan Rose Curtis, MS ’12, fellow, Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General/Brigham and Women’s Hospitals
Kathy Burke, MM, MS ’12, DCI fellow, senior advisor, Stanford Global Health, Stanford University
Pei Hao, MS ’19, bilingual editor, China CDC Weekly, Beijing
Ola Alani, MS ’17, regional international service coordinator, AmeriCorps California Disaster Action Team; volunteer recruitment team, American Red Cross
Jay Garcia, MS ’17, project manager, COVID-19 US Technical Assistance, Partners in Health
Katie Lesyna-Mlaponi, MS ’16, co-founder, Thrive Afya Tanzania
Alysse Maglior, MS ’16, technical program officer, J.C. Flowers Foundation
Laura Pineda, MS ’16, National Food and Drug Surveillance Institute (INVIMA), Colombia
Harinder Chahal, PharmD, MS ’14, senior public health advisor and researcher, Office of Public Health Strategy and Analysis, Office of the Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration
Guzyal Gabitova, MS ’12, editorial research associate, Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Amethyst Gillis, MS ’11, senior laboratory advisor and capacity building expert, DAI, Cameroon
Teri Reynolds, MD, PhD, MS ’10, scientist, Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention, World Health Organization, Geneva
Brittney Butler, MS ’19, research analyst, Milken Institute
Resego Bokete, MS ’18, clinical project associate, Gilead Sciences
Vikram Sridharan, MS ’18, data scientist, Metabiota
Emma Zorensky, MS ’17, head of operations, Sempre Health
Ashley Lucas, RN, MS ’15, clinical specialist, Labyrinth Global Health
Ariana Afshar, MS ’14, VP operations, Cricket Health
Thea Sutton, MS ’14, senior manager, Alliance & Advocacy Relations, Genentech
Katie Fox, MS ’13, solutions and delivery, Evidation Health
Nicholas Hu, MS ’13, head of global operations, Zipline International Inc.
Maggie Schultz, MS ’19, nursing student, Family Nurse Practitioner Program, Simmons University
Jeffery Ezennia, MS ’18, medical student, UC Riverside School of Medicine
Camila Hurtado, MS ’18, Tommaso Bulfone, MS ’17, and Anthony Nardone, MS ’16, MS/MD students, UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program
Pal Shah, MS ’17, medical student, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Emma Wilde Botta, MS ’16, nursing student, School of Nursing, Samuel Merritt University
Alex Chin, DDS, MS ’15, resident, VA Palo Alto; visiting resident, Stanford Health Care
Anton Avanceña, MS ’14, PhD candidate, Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Katherine McClendon, MS ’14, PhD student, UCSF School of Nursing
Harry Whittle, MBBS, MS ’14, academic clinical fellow, National Institute of Health Research, University College London
Maryam Zafer, MD, MS ’14, internal medicine resident, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago
Jillian Armstrong, MS ’13, PhD student, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health; fellow, Global Health Equity Scholars, Fogarty International Center
Frey Gugsa, MD, MS ’13, resident physician, Johns Hopkins Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Keely Jordan (Bisch), MS ’13, PhD candidate, School of Global Public Health, New York University
Renata Abrahão, MD, PhD, MS ’11, genetic epidemiology fellow, International Agency for Research on Cancer, France