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Stephen Luby is the Lucy Becker Professor of Medicine at Stanford University's School of Medicine, with affiliations at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He holds a courtesy appointment in Epidemiology and Population Health. His career includes 5 years at Pakistan's Aga Khan University and 8 years in Bangladesh with the CDC and icddr,b before joining Stanford in 2012.
Education: MD from University of Texas Southwestern (1986), BA in Philosophy from Creighton University (1981). Board certifications include Internal Medicine (American Board of Internal Medicine) and a CDC Epidemiology Fellowship (1992).
Research focuses on global public health, environmental health, and infectious disease control in low-income settings. Key areas include reducing air pollution from brick kilns, lead exposure mitigation, typhoid vaccine efficacy, and planetary health. The Luby Lab emphasizes strategic research to drive scalable health impacts, collaborating globally on issues like Nipah virus outbreaks and antimicrobial resistance.
Notable awards include the Walter J. Gores Award for Exceptional Teaching (2024). His work spans interdisciplinary projects, such as evaluating fractional vaccine doses, assessing hospital hand hygiene in Liberia, and advancing environmental surveillance for typhoid.
Luby leads the Stanford Luby Lab, based at Y2E2 Building, Stanford CA. Collaborations include icddr,b, CDC, and global institutions like WHO and UNICEF. Current projects address climate change impacts on health, hospital infection control, and policy interventions for sustainable brick manufacturing.
