Professor, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Global Health

Dr. Carey Farquhar, MD, MPH, received her MD at Harvard Medical School. She completed a residency and chief residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in infectious disease at the University of Washington, where she also earned a Masters in Public Health. She currently spends approximately 2 months each year in Nairobi and Kisumu mentoring US and Kenyan trainees and conducting research on HIV-discordant couples, HIV partner services, correlates of immunity against HIV-1, and mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission. Ongoing studies explore the provision of partner notification and HIV testing services in a cluster-randomized trial of 18 voluntary counseling and testing sites in Kenya and examine home-based education and HIV testing for male partners of pregnant women. The latter is a randomized clinical trial assessing maternal and child health outcomes that is taking place in Kisumu, Kenya. She has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers and is the Director of two international training programs (listed above) as well as the UW Internal Medicine Global Health Pathway. Dr. Farquhar teaches 3 courses in the School of Public Health -- AIDS: A Multidisciplinary Approach, the Responsible Conduct of International Research, and the Integrated Residency Global Health Leadership course. In addition, she sees HIV-infected patients one half-day per week at Madison Clinic and attends in the Infectious Disease clinic and on the wards at Harborview Medical Center.
Publications
- Shakil, SS, Korir, S, Omondi, G, Ale, BM, Gitura, B, Tofeles, MM et al.. Early Structural Cardiovascular Disease, HIV, and Tuberculosis in East Africa (ASANTE): Cross-sectional study protocol for a multimodal cardiac imaging study in Nairobi, Kenya. medRxiv. 2025; :. doi: 10.1101/2025.03.16.25323832. PubMed PMID:40166534 PubMed Central PMC11957073.
- Owuor, M, Wamuti, B, Katz, DA, Liu, W, Lagat, H, Kariithi, E et al.. Factors influencing community demand for assisted partner services for HIV in western Kenya: a multilevel qualitative analysis. BMJ Open. 2025;15 (3):e088436. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088436. PubMed PMID:40090685 PubMed Central PMC11911700.
- Kingston, H, Chohan, BH, Mbogo, L, Bukusi, D, Monroe-Wise, A, Sambai, B et al.. Using HIV and Hepatitis C Molecular Epidemiology to Investigate Assisted Partner Services Recruitment Among People Who Inject Drugs in Kenya. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2025;41 (2):76-86. doi: 10.1089/aid.2024.0036. PubMed PMID:39686724 .
- Kingston, H, Nduva, G, Chohan, BH, Mbogo, L, Monroe-Wise, A, Sambai, B et al.. A phylogenetic assessment of HIV-1 transmission trends among people who inject drugs from Coastal and Nairobi, Kenya. Virus Evol. 2024;10 (1):veae092. doi: 10.1093/ve/veae092. PubMed PMID:39678353 PubMed Central PMC11640816.
- Mudhune, V, Roy Paladhi, U, Owuor, M, Ngure, K, Katz, DA, Otieno, G et al.. Uptake and acceptability of oral HIV self-testing in the context of assisted partner services in Western Kenya: A mixed-methods analysis. PLOS Glob Public Health. 2024;4 (11):e0003960. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0003960. PubMed PMID:39546456 PubMed Central PMC11567626.