George Rutherford

Dr. George Rutherford is the former director of the Institute for Global Health and a professor emeritus in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UC San Francisco School of Medicine. He is also professor emeritus of pediatrics and of family and community medicine, and adjunct professor of epidemiology and health administration at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health.

Rutherford plays a leading role in California’s COVID-19 response. His recent publications include: Will Coronavirus Disease 2019 Become Seasonal? (Journal of Infectious Disease June 21, 2020), and Estimation of effects of contact tracing and mask adoption on COVID-19 transmission in San Francisco: a modeling study (medRxiv June 11, 2020).

Educated at Stanford University and the Duke University School of Medicine, Rutherford is board certified in pediatrics and in general preventive medicine and public health. Following training in epidemiology in the Centers for Disease Control’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, he spent the majority of his professional career in public health practice, with a primary emphasis on the epidemiology and control of communicable diseases. He has held a number of positions in public health agencies.