Training
Dr. Maria Garcia
PRISE Center Co-Director for Implementation Science Training
Dr. Garcia obtained an MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, an MPH from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and an MAS in Clinical Research and a Certificate in Implementation Science from the University of California, San Francisco.
As a clinician investigator, Dr. Garcia focuses on co-morbid mental health and chronic diseases and their disproportionate impact on vulnerable and marginalized populations. She conducts research on mental health integration in primary care, with a focus on racially, ethnically and linguistically diverse populations. Dr. Garcia has researched the unique challenges that patients with co-morbid mental health and chronic diseases face and focused on implementation work in mental health integration and improvement of service delivery for populations with language barriers using implementation science and mixed methods.
Dr. Priya Shete
PRISE Center Program Co-Director for Implementation Science Training
Dr. Shete received her MD from Yale University School of Medicine, MPH from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Certificate in Implementation Science from UCSF. Dr. Shete combines methods in implementation science, social epidemiology, and health economics to expand and improve tuberculosis care for vulnerable populations globally and locally. She uses implementation science methods to design and evaluate context-appropriate interventions that reduce the social and financial consequences of having TB and accessing TB care as a way to improve socioeconomic and public health outcomes of this disease. Dr. Shete often uses her skills in implementation science by working within public health institutions. She previously worked for the Global TB Programme of the World Health Organization to support high-burden countries in developing implementation science research agendas to fold into existing TB control programs. Dr. Shete served as a public health advisor with a focus on health system strengthening in USAID’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance. Most recently, she has been leading the Modeling and Analytics team for COVID-19 response at the California Department of Public Health.