Dr. Ruanne Barnabas
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
Associate Professor
Department of Global Health
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
Related Links: 
UW Department of Medicine
UW Department of Global Health
UW Department of Epidemiology
UW/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research UW (CFAR)

Faculty Information

Biography

Dr. Barnabas is an Infectious Disease Physician-Scientist at the University of Washington and affiliate at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Her research focuses on HIV treatment and prevention, specifically on interventions that reduce HIV viral load and, consequently, disease progression and transmission. Her projects use both empiric data and mathematical models to better understand HIV clinical progression and transmission, and estimate the potential impact of HIV interventions at population level. The ultimate aim of her work is to estimate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of HIV treatment and prevention interventions to inform clinical trial design.

Education & Training: 
MD
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
1997
DPhil, Clinical Medicine - Epidemiology
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
2005
Medical Intern
Groote Schuur Hospital Complex
Cape Town, South Africa
1998
Research Fellow, Cancer Epidemiology Unit
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
2006
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, HIV Vaccines Trials Network
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA
2006-2009
Honors: 
Rhodes Scholar
Oxford Nuffield Medical Fellow
NIH KL2 Scholar Award
New Investigator Award, NIH Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)
Contact
Email: 
rbarnaba@uw.edu
Phone: 
(206) 520-3813
Mailing Address: 

325 9th Ave

Box 359927

Seattle, WA 98195

Publications
PubMed: 
PubMed Bibliography
Publications: 

Barnabas RV, Van Rooyen H, Tumwesigye E, et al. Initiation of antiretroviral therapy and viral suppression after home HIV testing and counselling in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and Mbarara district, Uganda: a prospective, observational intervention study. Lancet HIV. 2014 Nov; 1(2).
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Barnabas RV, Webb EL, Weiss HA and Wasserheit JN. The role of co-infections in HIV epidemic trajectory and positive prevention: A systematic review and meta-analysis. AIDS. 2011; 25(13): 1559-73.
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Barnabas RV, Wasserheit JN, Huang Y, et al and NIAID HIV Vaccine Trails Network. Impact of herpes simplex virus type 2 on HIV-1 acquisition and progression in an HIV vaccine trial (the Step study). J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2011; 57(3): 238-44.
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Smith MA, Canfell K, Brotherton JML, Lew JB, Barnabas RV. The predicted impact of vaccination on human papillomavirus infections in Australia. Int J Cancer. 2008; 123(8): 1854-63.
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Barnabas RV, Laukkanen P, Koskela P, Kontula O, Lehtinen M, Garnett GP. Epidemiology of HPV 16 and cervical cancer in Finland and the potential iImpact of vaccination: mathematical modelling analyses. PLoS Med. 2006; 3(5): e138.
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Barnabas RV, Carabin H, Garnett G. The potential role of suppressive therapy for sex partners in the prevention of neonatal herpes: a health economic analysis. Sex Transm Infect. 2002; 78(6): 425-9.
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