Heidi Bauer, MD, MS, MPH

Chief, Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD)
Control Branch, California Department of Public Health (CDPH)

Academic Appointments:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Division of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of California, San Francisco
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Division of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley

Email: heidi.bauer@cdph.ca.gov

Biosketch:

Since 1999, Heidi M. Bauer, MD, MS, MPH has worked for the STD Control Branch in the California Department of Public Health, first as a medical epidemiologist, then Chief of the Office of Medical and Scientific Affairs, Chief of the Program Development and Evaluation Section, and now branch Chief. The goal of the STD Control Branch is to reduce the impact of STDs in California.  Since 2002, she has been on faculty for the California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center (CA PTC).  The CA PTC is part of the National Network of STD/HIV Prevention Training Centers that provide courses designed to meet the needs of a wide array of medical, health promotion, and community professionals serving persons and communities impacted by STD and HIV.  Since 2006, she has been an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley.  In this role, she teaches the graduate seminar (PH 292): Sexual Health Promotion and STD Control.

Areas of Interest:

    • STD screening, diagnosis, treatment, and management
    • Chlamydia and gonorrhea screening and control
    • Syphilis prevention and control
    • HIV-STD interactions
    • Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection
    • Cervical cancer prevention, including Pap and HPV testing
    • HPV vaccine
    • Genital herpes infection
    • Racial, gender, and social inequities that impact sexual health

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    Research Interests:
      • Evaluation of the impact of HPV vaccination programs on the incidence of pre-cancerous cervical disease.
      • Interventions to improve screening and retesting for chlamydia and gonorrhea among young women.
      • Interventions for increasing the proportion of sexual partners of those infected with STDs who receive treatment, including expedited partner treatment

     

Ongoing Research Projects:

 

Title: In-TOUCH: Innovative Technology-based Outreach and Utilization of Client Home-testing to Improve Chlamydia/Gonorrhea Re-testing

Key Funder(s):  Office of Population Affairs

Major Project Goal:  The primary goal of this multi-clinic study is to identify effective, easy-to-implement strategies to improve chlamydia and gonorrhea retesting in family planning clinical settings.

Principal Investigator:  Heidi Bauer

 

Title:  HPV Vaccine Impact Monitoring Project through Surveillance of Cervical Precanerous Lesions

Key Funder(s):  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Major Project Goal:  This is a demonstration project to assess feasibility of establishing a surveillance system for HPV-associated cervical disease.

Role: co-Principal Investigator

 

Title:  Comprehensive STD Prevention Systems

Key Funder(s):  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Major Project Goal:  This program grant funds STD control activities in the CDC-designated California Project Area.

Role:  Contributor

 

Title:  Infertility Prevention Project

Key Funder(s):  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Major Project Goal:  This program grant funds STD control activities in collaboration with family planning partners to prevent and control chlamydia.

Role:  Contributor

 

Updated May 2011