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Allison Tatarsky, MPH

Director, Malaria Elimination Initiative and Co-Director, Center for Malaria and Vector-Borne Diseases
University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Institute for Global Health Sciences

Allison Tatarsky is the Director of the Malaria Elimination Initiative and Co-Director of the Center for Malaria and Vector-Borne Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco, Institute for Global Health Sciences. Allison has 17 years of experience working alongside and in service of ministries of health on malaria elimination strategy, program implementation, and operational research. During her tenure with the MEI, Allison established the MEI’s vector control and surveillance portfolio of work, including research on innovative vector control tools and vector surveillance strengthening, and led MEI’s advocacy, financing, and sustainability portfolio. As MEI Director, Allison shapes strategy, develops partnerships, and contributes to regional and global malaria eradication policymaking. As CMVBD Co-Director, Allison fosters scientific collaboration and community-building across UCSF and the Bay Area, designs center programs, and fundraises to catalyze innovative research to fight malaria and other vector-borne diseases.
Allison is the Co-Chair of the global Malaria Elimination Interest Group, former member of the Expert Scientific Advisory Committee for the Innovative Vector Control Consortium, and former Co-Chair of the RBM Partnership to End Malaria Vector Control Working Group New Tools Workstream.
Prior to joining UCSF, Allison worked with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in southern Africa on regional and country malaria elimination efforts, living and working in Mauritius, Botswana, and South Africa, and subsequently in Boston where she coordinated CHAI’s HIV, TB, and Health Financing efforts across the organization.
Allison has degrees in public health and health science from Boston University.

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