Hello there. My name is Alex Goodell, and I'm a global health researcher at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California San Francisco. I am interested in health and healthcare costs in developing nations, especially related to HIV/AIDS. I graduated in the spring of 2011 with a degree in biology from the Clark Honors College, University of Oregon. I will be attending a yet-to-be-decided medical school in the fall of 2013.
I enjoy cooking with my girlfriend Lauryn Porte, hiking, travel, sailing, and gardening. We're based in beautiful Berkeley, California.
Current projects
Global Health Decisions, UCSF
Led by Professor James G Kahn and colleagues, this project aims to create a web software suite to help policy makers decide between different HIV intervention portfolios. The venture is unique in that in combines an effectiveness review approach with an epidemic simulation model, producing estimates for costs, infections, prevalence, etc for a 20-year period. I serve as the web lead. More info on our project site and we've even soft-released a very early test version.
MUHAS-UCSF Academic Learning Project
I was a research assistant for this project, led by Professors Sarah Macfarlane and Ephata Kaaya. The program was a long-term partnership between the largest medical school in Tanzania (the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences) and UCSF. The results of this partnership were published in a supplement to The Journal of Public Health Policy. Currently, I am working on finishing a model of physician training and movement in Tanzania, called the Increasing Clinically Active Doctors tool.
Babesia testing in the United States
Babesia microti is an emerging infection in the United States blood-banking community and is the highest infectious threat to US blood safety. I and colleagues at the Blood Systems Research Institute are studying the costs and effects of various testing strategies available to the United States
FACE AIDS alumni advisory committee.
After working with FACE AIDS in a variety of capacities for six years, I am now happy to be coordinating an alumni advisory committee to help further FACE AIDS mission and connect with students interested in social justice.
Freelance web design, development and marketing
I continue to be involved in a variety of small projects building simple and elegant designs for businesses and nonprofits, in addition to basic photography work. Please feel free to get in touch with me to learn more about my services.
Past projects
Community Health Worker research at Village Health Works
Village Health Works, an NYC-based non-profit, operates is a small clinic in the Bururi province of Burundi. It operates a variety of novel health programs, and its founder Deogratias was recently chronicled in a book, Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder. I spent six months on site in 2009 and 2010 and studied their community health worker program. My research there became my thesis, entitled Scaling Up: Expanding Community Health Worker Programs for Former Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Southwest Burundi.
Students for Global Health
In 2007, three friends and I started Students for Global Health as a University of Oregon-based chapter of FACE AIDS.
Lane County Special Populations
From 2007-2010, I worked with the Lane County Department of Environmental Health to develope the Lane Country Special Populations Register, an online map of all facilities in Oregon that may need special assistance due to especially vulnerable populations during an evacuation. The site was later expanded into the Oregon Disaster Registry.