George Rutherford

Dr. George Rutherford is the Director for the Institute for Global Health, the Salvatore Pablo Lucia Professor of Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics, and the head of the Division of Prevention Medicine and Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. He is also Professor of Pediatrics and of Family and Community Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology and Health Administration at the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. Educated at Stanford University and the Duke University School of Medicine, Dr. Rutherford is board certified in pediatrics and in general preventive medicine and public health, and has spent the majority of his professional career in public health practice, with a primary emphasis on the epidemiology and control of communicable diseases.