Alan Lifson
Instructor
About
Alan Lifson moved to Bellingham from Minnesota, where he was Professor with the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health’s Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, and School of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health. After completing his internal medicine residency and infectious disease fellowship in San Francisco, he joined the Centers for Disease Control as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer assigned to the AIDS Program. His also served as Chief of AIDS Research for the San Francisco Health Department, and Head of the Acute Disease Prevention Section with the Minnesota Department of Health. He is an author or coauthor on over 100 articles and book chapters, and has conducted research, taught, or consulted in multiple countries, including Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa, especially Ethiopia where he worked for more than a decade. His research and other activities have included multiple populations, including gay and bisexual men, injection drug users, native Americans, refugees and immigrants, COVID patients in nursing homes, and rural Africans. He loves teaching and advising students, and is excited about being part of Fairhaven College.