OUR PEOPLE
Valerie Flaherman, MD, MPH
Professor
School of Medicine
490 Illinois Street, #72P
San Francisco, CA 94158
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Education and Training
Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges, A.B. - 1987 Social Studies
Harvard University, M.D. - 1992 School of Medicine
Children's Hospital Oakland, Pediatrics Residency - 1996 Pediatrics
University of California, Berkeley, M.P.H. - 2004 School of Public Health
University of California, San Francisco, Preventive Medicine Residency - 2005 Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Overview
I am a pediatrician, epidemiologist and clinical investigator with a research program focused on preventive interventions in early childhood. I have been Principal Investigator (PI) of seven randomized controlled trials of breastfeeding interventions during the birth hospitalization, which have been funded by a variety of federal and philanthropic sources. This work has been conducted in the U.S. as well as internationally in a variety of low- and middle-income countries including Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan and Uganda. Additionally, I serve in the leadership of of the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) study, a trans-NIH initiative to examine the effects of Long COVID on children and adults, and as a co-investigator for the 11-country Global Scales of Early Development Norms & Standards Study (GSED 2.0). My clinical practice includes pediatric primary care and lactation consultation at the UCSF Newborn Nursery and at Pediatric Acute Care at Mt. Zion.