Stanford
Luby Lab

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Stephen P. Luby, MD

Principal Investigator 

Stephen Luby, MD, is the Lucy Becker Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine), Faculty Lead for Stanford’s Center for Human and Planetary Health, Director of Research for Stanford’s Center for Innovation and Global Health, Professor (by courtesy) of Epidemiology & Population Health, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute and Freeman Spogli Institute, and director of the Stanford Existential Risks Initiative. His affiliations include the Doerr School of Sustainability, King Center on Global Development, Bio-X, MCHRI, Science, Technology & Society, and Stanford Impact Labs. He received Stanford’s 2024 Walter J. Gores Award, Stanford’s highest award for excellence in teaching. 

Dr. Luby has conducted research at the interface between the environment and health in low-income countries for the last 30 years. He lived in Pakistan for 5 years and in Bangladesh for 8 years. Since joining Stanford 13 years ago, he has increasingly focused on developing and evaluating approaches to counter the perverse incentives where people earn money by destroying the environment and health. [Google Scholar] • [ResearchGate] • [Email]

 

Lab Members

FORMER LAB MEMBERS

Ronan Arthur, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Infectious Diseases, Stanford University

Whitney Bagge, Disease Ecologist, EcoHealth Alliance

Clara Rose Bonaventura, Disease Ecologist, EcoHealth Alliance

Nina Brooks, Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health

Sahar El Abbadi, ​​​​​​​Post-doctoral Researcher, Energy Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Christlee Elmera, Researcher, Economics

Zahra Fazal, Health Equity Researcher, Intuitive

Brooke Forde, Peace Corps, Peru

Jenna Forsyth, Director, Project Unleaded

Jessica Grembi, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State

Latifah Hamzah, Water Resources Engineer, Geosyntec Consultants

Angela Harris, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University

Michael Harris, E-IPER PhD

Lily Horng, Medical Officer, Immunization Branch, California Department of Public Health

Yana Emmy Hoy-Schulz, Infectious Disease Project Manager, ADJUST Center, Emory University School of Medicine

Layla Kwong, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Max Lamparth, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution Technology Policy Accelerator

Christopher LeBoa, PhD student, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Moogdho Mahzab, Associate Research Fellow, Poverty, Gender, and Inclusion Unit: International Food Policy Research Institute 

John Openshaw, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine), Stanford University

Amy Pickering, Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering; Blum Center Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice, Blum Center for Developing Economies, University of California Berkeley

Joelle Rosser, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases), Stanford University

Allison Sherris, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington

Ashley Styczynski, Division of Quality Healthcare Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Trond Undheim, Research scholar in Global Systemic Risk, Innovation, and Policy

Eric Yin, Research Professional, Project Unleaded

Alexander Yu, Medical Epidemiologist, Infectious Diseases Branch, California Department of Public Health

Daniel Zimmer, Lecturer with the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education program at Stanford University