John M. Colford Jr. is a Professor of Epidemiology who has served as the Principal Investigator for numerous randomized field trials and observational studies evaluating the impact of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in India, Bolivia, Guatemala, Bangladesh, Kenya, Mexico and the United States.

John M. Colford Jr. is a Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. He trained at Johns Hopkins (MD); Stanford (Chief Medical Resident); UCSF (residency in Internal Medicine and fellowships in ID and HIV/AIDS); and UC Berkeley (Epi PhD). He has served as the Principal Investigator for numerous randomized field trials and observational studies evaluating the impact of water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in India, Bolivia, Guatemala, Bangladesh, Kenya, Mexico and the United States. He teaches courses each year at UC Berkeley on Epidemiologic Methods, the Design of Randomized Controlled Trials, and on Impact Evaluation for Health Professionals. He is an attending physician in Infectious Diseases at the UCSF/VA Medical Center in San Francisco.

Waterborne infectious diseases (domestic, developing country and recreational water settings)
Clinical trial design (individual and community-level)

PhD – Epidemiology
University of California, Berkeley, 1996

MPH – Public Health
University of California, Berkeley, 1992

MD – Johns Hopkins University, 1985

BS – Chemistry
Santa Clara University, 1981

PubMed

PH 250B
Epidemiologic Methods

PH 252C
Intervention Trial Design