Dr. Sahar Saeed is an epidemiologist and CIHR-funded post-doctoral fellow at Washington University in St. Louis. Over the past 15 years, she has developed specialized knowledge and methodological expertise studying inequities among people living with HIV. While completing her doctoral studies at McGill University (2015-2019), she made significant advances uncovering barriers to accessing hepatitis C treatments among people co-infected with HIV. She spearheaded research evaluating the generalizability of clinical trials (CID, 2016); described the impact of patient-level barriers (JIAS, 2017) and system-level barriers (CID, 2019) on access to hepatitis C treatments; and evaluated how curing hepatitis C improved health-related quality of life (JVH, 2018). Additionally, she published two tutorials on quasi-experimental methodologies (IJPH 2018 & 2019) to support public health practitioners in understanding and applying these methods broadly. In the last five years she was awarded 17 competitive fellowships and prizes, including a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Frederick Banting and Charles Best Doctoral Award. Currently, Sahar is expanding her training to include implementation science and employs machine learning methods to characterize psycho-social syndemics and how they relate to disengagement from HIV care in the United States and Zambia.
