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About FIND > FIND Team > Heidi Hopkins
Dr Heidi Hopkins joined the FIND (Uganda) team in August 2008 to coordinate the design and conduct of field trials in malaria diagnostics. Pending studies include multi-site evaluations of positive control wells (PCWs) for malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs), field evaluations of newer RDTs, and demonstration projects to address questions critical to policy decisions and large-scale implementation such as the safety of RDT use in fever case management for children under 5 years. For the five years prior to joining FIND, Dr Hopkins worked as study coordinator and principal investigator with the Makerere University – University of California, San Francisco (MU-UCSF) Malaria Research Collaboration and the Uganda Malaria Surveillance Project (UMSP). She led studies evaluating RDT accuracy in various clinical settings, the effectiveness and safety of training in fever case management with RDTs at peripheral health centers, and collaborated on work to assess the cost-effectiveness of RDT use. She works closely with the Uganda Malaria Control Program and other national stakeholders to draft and implement evidence-based policy for malaria diagnosis. Dr Hopkins received a BA in Anthropology from the University of Iowa (USA). She obtained her MD from Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York, and pursued an MPH at University of California, Berkeley. She completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia campus), and fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at UCSF. She maintains a position as Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF.
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