Affiliate
M_Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Dr. Jennifer Flood is the Chief of the Tuberculosis Control Branch at the California Department of Public Health. She is an infectious disease physician and UCSF Clinical Professor of Medicine and has provided clinical care for patients with TB infection at the San Francisco Department of Public Health TB Clinic for over two decades. In her capacity as state TB controller, Dr. Flood has led the development of a TB elimination plan for California and established the California multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) service. She also serves as Principal Investigator for the California site of the CDC TB Epidemiologic Studies Consortium. Her research interests are TB elimination and prevention of TB deaths.
Publications
Identifying gaps in tuberculosis preventive care for non-U.S.-born persons at community health clinics in the United States.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences
Policy Impediments to Tuberculosis Elimination: Consequences of an Absent Medicare National Coverage Determination for Tuberculosis Prevention.
Journal of immigrant and minority health
Tuberculosis Diagnostic Delays and Treatment Outcomes among Patients with COVID-19, California, USA, 2020.
Journal of general internal medicine
Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection Among Non-US-Born Adults in the US: A Path Toward Elimination.
Nature medicine
Low-Dose Linezolid for Treatment of Patients With Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis.
Gates open research
Health insurance, healthcare utilization and language use among populations who experience risk for tuberculosis, California 2014-2017.
Research Square
Assessing Complexity Among Patients With Tuberculosis in California, 1993-2016.
Gates open research
Modeling the Impact of Recommendations for Primary Care-Based Screening for Latent Tuberculosis Infection in California.
Frontiers in oncology
Policy Implications of Mathematical Modeling of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Testing and Treatment Strategies to Accelerate Tuberculosis Elimination.
Frontiers in oncology
Residential urban tree canopy is associated with decreased mortality during tuberculosis treatment in California.
M_MED-VAMC-INFD
Evaluation of the Impact of a Sequencing Assay for Detection of Drug Resistance on the Clinical Management of Tuberculosis.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Outlook for tuberculosis elimination in California: An individual-based stochastic model.
Research Square
Treatment Outcomes in Global Systematic Review and Patient Meta-Analysis of Children with Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis.
Journal of general internal medicine
Treatment correlates of successful outcomes in pulmonary multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: an individual patient data meta-analysis.
M_PEDS-INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Treatment and outcomes in children with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: A systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis.
M_MED-ZSFG-AIDS
Tuberculosis Mortality in the United States: Epidemiology and Prevention Opportunities.
M_MED-ZSFG-PULM
Mainstreaming Latent Tuberculosis Infection Testing and Treatment in the United States: Who and How.
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews
Traffic-Related Air Pollution and All-Cause Mortality during Tuberculosis Treatment in California.
H_PPH-Domestic-TB
Risk Factors for Central Nervous System Tuberculosis.
BMJ global health
Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection.
M_MED-CORE-PULM
Correction: Cost Resulting from Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Shortages in the United States: A Hypothetical Cohort Study.
Research Square
Transnational Record Linkage for Tuberculosis Surveillance and Program Evaluation.
Frontiers in oncology
Cost Resulting from Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Shortages in the United States: A Hypothetical Cohort Study.
Research Square
Tuberculosis Elimination Efforts in the United States in the Era of Insurance Expansion and the Affordable Care Act.
Frontiers in oncology
Epidemiology of human Mycobacterium bovis disease, California, USA, 2003-2011.
Journal of general internal medicine
Tuberculosis treatment managed by providers outside the Public Health Department: lessons for the Affordable Care Act.
Research Square
Death with tuberculosis in california, 1994-2008.
Gates open research
Treatment practices, outcomes, and costs of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, United States, 2005-2007.
Journal of general internal medicine
Timely HIV diagnosis and HIV/TB comanagement among California patients in 2008.
Frontiers in oncology
Rifampin monoresistant tuberculosis and HIV comorbidity in California, 1993-2008: a retrospective cohort study.
The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia
Improved outcomes found after implementing a systematic evaluation and program improvement process for tuberculosis.
Frontiers in oncology
Transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the USA: a cross-sectional study.
Essential Strategies for Leveraging AI in the Global HIV Response
Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection, California, USA, 1993–2008.
Journal of general internal medicine
Antituberculosis drug resistance acquired during treatment: an analysis of cases reported in California, 1994-2006.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis treatment regimens and patient outcomes: an individual patient data meta-analysis of 9,153 patients.
M_MED-ZSFG-AIDS
Determinants of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis clusters, California, USA, 2004-2007.
Journal of general internal medicine
Diagnostic challenges of central nervous system tuberculosis.
Journal of general internal medicine
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in california, 1993-2006.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
Assessing the validity of tuberculosis surveillance data in California.
PLOS global public health
Cost-effectiveness of tuberculosis evaluation and treatment of newly-arrived immigrants.
PLOS global public health
Laboratory reporting of tuberculosis test results and patient treatment initiation in California.
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Mycobacterium africanum cases, California.
Journal of general internal medicine
Human exposure following Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of multiple animal species in a Metropolitan Zoo.
Journal of general internal medicine
Identifying the sources of tuberculosis in young children: a multistate investigation.
Journal of general internal medicine
Surveillance for unexplained deaths and critical illnesses due to possibly infectious causes, United States, 1995-1998.
Journal of general internal medicine