Roger Detels, M.D., M.S.
UCLA Public Health-Epidemiology
BOX 951772, 71-267 CHS
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
(310) 206-2837 Fax (310) 206-6039
detels@ucla.edu
Roger Detels M.D., M.S., began his research career at the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit in Taipei, Taiwan in 1966. Professor Detels has served as Chair of Epidemiology (1971-1980, 2001-present), as Dean of the School of Public Health (1980-1985), as president of the Society of Epidemiologic Research (1977-1978), and as president of the IEA from 1990-1993.
He was an editor for the first and second editions of the Oxford Textbook of Public Health, and was the senior editor for the third and fourth editions. Professor Detels began his research in HIV/AIDS in 1981. Since then he has published a total of 175 papers in the epidemiology, natural history, immunology, and biology of HIV-1 infection out of a total of over 300 research papers. He was the editor for a special edition of AIDS Education and Prevention entitled “HIV Surveillance, Prevention, Intervention and Treatment in Asia : Where We Are Today” (July 2004). He is the director of the UCLA/Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program, which has trained over 100 health professionals from Asia , Southeast Asia , South Asia , Eastern Europe , and Latin America . He is also the director of the UCLA/NIAIDS AIDS Epidemiology Training Program. Over 50 students who have received their Ph.D. under his guidance have subsequently become professors, directors of state health departments, directors of HIV/AIDS programs at the local, country and international levels, and/or leaders in various fields of epidemiology and public health. Professor Detels has received over $70 million in grant support. He is the director of the UCLA Center of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, which has published over 900 papers on various aspects of HIV/AIDS, and he has directed research projects in China , India , Vietnam , Cambodia , Thailand , Myanmar , Philippines , Indonesia , Laos , and Thailand.
# Detels R, Tarwater P, Phair JP, Margolick J, Riddler SA, Munoz A. Effectiveness of potent antiretroviral therapies on the incidence of opportunistic infections before and after AIDS diagnosis, AIDS 2001;15:347-355
# Tam H, Zhang ZF, Jacobson L, Margolick JB, Chmiel JS, Rinaldo C, Detels R. Effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy on survival among HIV-infected men with Kaposi sarcoma or non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Int J Cancer 2002;98:916-922
# Saphonn V, Hor LB, Ly SP, Chhuon S, Saidel T, Detels R. How well do antenatal clinic (ANC) attendees represent the general population? A comparison of HIV prevalence from ANC sentinel surveillance sites with a population-based survey of women aged 15-49 in Cambodia. Int J Epidemiol 2002;31:449-455
# Liu C, Carrington M, Kaslow RA, Gao X, Rinaldo CR, Jacobson LP, Margolick JB, Phair J, O'Brien SJ, Detels R. Association of polymorphisms in human leukocyte antigen class I and transporter associated with antigen processing genes with resistance to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection. J Infect Dis 2003;187(9):1404-1410
# Liu H, Jamison D, Li X, Ma E, Yin Y, Detels R. Is syndromic management better than the current approach for treatment of STDs in China. Sex Transm Dis 2003;30(4):327-330
# Detels R, Wu Z, Rotheram MJ, Li L, Guan J, Yin Y, Liang G, Lee M, Lee M, Hu L, and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Collaborative HIV Prevention Trial Group. Sexually transmitted disease prevalence and characteristics of market vendors in eastern China. Sex Transm Dis 2003; 30(11):803-808.
# Nguyen AT, Nguyen TH, Pham KC, Le TG, Bui DT, Hoang TL, Saidel T, Detels R. Intravenous drug use among street-based sex workers: a high-risk behavior for HIV transmission. Sex Transm Dis 2004; 31(1):15-19.
# Leng HB, Detels R, Heng S, Mun P. The role of sex worker clients in transmission of HIV in Cambodia. Int J STD AIDS 2005; in press.
# Saphonn V, Parekh BS, Dobbs T, Mean CV, Leng HB, Sun LP, Heng S, Detels R. Trends of HIV-1 seroincidence among HIV-1 sentinel surveillance groups in Cambodia, 1999-2002. JAIDS 2005; in press.