Sheri Weiser, MD, MPH, is an internist and Professor of Medicine in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine at UCSF. She co-founded and co-directs the University of California (UC) Center on Climate Change, Health and Equity where she is working to expand climate and health research, education, policy and clinical initiatives. Her research over the past 25 years focuses on the impact of food insecurity, extreme weather events, and other social and structural factors on treatment outcomes for HIV and chronic diseases. She also evaluates sustainable food insecurity and livelihood interventions as a way to improve health, and her work has been used to change policies, programs and practice nationally and globally. She has published over 250 peer reviewed manuscripts, has been principal investigator on over 30 grants on these topics (12 at NIH). She has mentored over 80 students, fellows and junior faculty, and was awarded the UCSF Distinction in Mentoring Award, awarded to one faculty member in the Associate Professor and Professor Series.
She co-leads an NIH Fogarty training program in the Nyanza region of Kenya called Sustainable Development for HIV Health, with a goal to train the next generation of Kenyan leaders on how to develop climate-adaptive and sustainable food security and livelihood interventions to improve HIV health. She has led UCSF and cross-UC curricular efforts to infuse themes of climate change and sustainability into health professional education. This education and research at the nexus of climate change and health earned her the UCSF and UC-wide Sustainability Awards. She serves on the Global Climate Leadership Council (GCLC), where she helps advise the University of California (UC) president on issues related to climate change and sustainability. She was elected to serve on the US Climate Security Roundtable to advise the Department of Defense and Congress about how climate change affects national security. She is an internist and has been working with disproportionately impacted populations with HIV since 2001. Dr. Weiser completed her medical degree at Harvard Medical School, and residency and fellowship training at UCSF. Dr. Weiser also earned an MA in Medical Anthropology from Harvard University and an MPH in Epidemiology from UC Berkeley.