Professor Stephen Patrick Kachur is professor of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University Medical Center. He directs the Advancing Research on Comprehensive Health Systems (ARCHeS) program — the principal academic and research entity for implementation science and embedded research in the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health. Professor Kachur formerly served as chief of the Malaria Branch at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is a medical epidemiologist by training. In this role, he conducted field research and provides technical assistance to malaria control programs and their partners in Africa and around the world. Professor Kachur’s research focuses on experimental and observational epidemiology and health systems studies to evaluate the effectiveness and equity of malaria control and elimination interventions, with a particular interest in understanding how communities adapt and interpret malaria policies and programs.

Professor Kachur also works as a consultant on behalf of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Malaria Programme, where he serves on multiple evidence review and technical expert groups and has supported the Special Programme on Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR). In 2017, he began service on the WHO’s Malaria Policy Advisory Committee. He has served as co-chair of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership’s Case Management Working Group and advised malaria and neglected tropical disease efforts on behalf of the Carter Center, Marathon Oil, the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, the US Agency for International Development, the US National Institutes of Health, the US Peace Corps, and The World Bank. In 2016, Professor Kachur served as acting/interim principal deputy director at CDC’s Center for Global Health, contributing to the Global Health Security Agenda and coordinating global efforts in support of CDC’s response to the transmission of the Zika virus in the western hemisphere.

Professor Kachur completed training at the following institutions: Kent State University in Ohio, Northeastern Ohio University’s College of Medicine in Ohio, University of Ilorin in Nigeria, Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, and Johns Hopkins University in Maryland. He also completed training at the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service Program.