Saba Rouhani
Saba Rouhani
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiology
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Professional overview
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Dr. Saba Rouhani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at GPH. She conducts research in social epidemiology, policy evaluation, and overdose prevention.
Prior to joining NYU Dr. Rouhani worked as research faculty in the Department of Health, Behavior and Society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She also completed a fellowship funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Drug Abuse. Her research has been published in the International Journal of Drug Policy, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, the Journal of Urban Health, and the American Journal of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.
Dr. Rouhani received her PhD in global disease epidemiology and control from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She holds an MSc in the control of infectious diseases from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a BSc in medical microbiology from the University of Edinburgh.
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Education
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PhD Global Disease Epidemiology & Control, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USAMS Control of Infectious Diseases, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United KingdomBS Medical Microbiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Honors and awards
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Drug Dependency Epidemiology Training (T32) Fellowship, National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health (2018)The R. Bradley Sack Family Scholarship Award, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2016)Global Health Established Field Placement Scholarship, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2014)Save the Children Program Management Award, Save the Children International (2012)Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Award for Best Poster Presentation of Research in Progress (2012)
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Publications
Publications
Business and Service Provider Attitudes Towards Police Involvement in Overdose Response: A Cross-Sectional Survey in Rhode Island Overdose Hotspots.
Failed retrieving data.Ghost gun recovery and firearm deaths in California, 2014-2023.
Failed retrieving data.Higher levels of naloxone protection are associated with lower risk-taking: A longitudinal analysis of New York City residents using unprescribed opioids.
Failed retrieving data.HIV prevalence, risk behaviours, and cascade of care among men who have sex with men in Iran: a nationwide, cross-sectional, biobehavioural survey.
Failed retrieving data.If you've ever experienced it, you'd feel differently: Exploring willingness and skepticism toward using higher dose naloxone products among people who use drugs in Maryland, United States
Failed retrieving data.Legal Financial Obligations: An Understudied Public Health Exposure.
Failed retrieving data.Racial discrimination and perceptions of police among US adults.
Failed retrieving data.Specialized Mental Health Crisis Response Activities Within US Law Enforcement Agencies.
Failed retrieving data.Structural Vulnerability and Police Interaction among Women Who Use Drugs amid De Facto Decriminalization in Baltimore, Maryland.
Failed retrieving data.All You Can Do is What You Know to Do: Naloxone Knowledge and Uncertainty Among People Who Use Drugs in Maryland amid a Volatile Drug Market
Failed retrieving data.Beliefs of US chiefs of police about substance use disorder, fentanyl exposure, overdose response, and use of discretion: results from a national survey.
Failed retrieving data.Cumulative Racism and Substance use: Results from the 2023 Racism and Public Health Study
Failed retrieving data.Disparities in willingness to call the police in a 2023 survey of US adults: Implications for alternative crisis response programs.
Failed retrieving data.Examining the association between psychological resilience and chronic versus discrete stressors among individuals who use opioids in Baltimore, Maryland.
Failed retrieving data.Experiences of a drug decriminalization policy among police and people who use drugs in Baltimore City: a post-structural policy analysis
Failed retrieving data.Harms associated with injecting in public spaces: a global systematic review and meta-analysis.
Failed retrieving data.Navigating US illicit drug market volatility : Harm reduction strategies employed by people who inject drugs
Failed retrieving data.Racial Discrimination and Substance Use: Results from a 2023 Survey of Racism and Public Health in the United States.
Failed retrieving data.Substance Checking Outreach and PrEP Engagement (SCOPE) Study: protocol for a non-randomised clinical trial in Baltimore, Maryland USA.
Failed retrieving data.Syringe Service Program Utilization, Behavioral, and Experiential Factors Associated with Greater Naloxone Protection in a Longitudinal Cohort of People Who Use Illicit Opioids in New York City.
Failed retrieving data.Transforming first response through non-police, community safety response programmes: a peer-reviewed and grey literature scoping review protocol.
Failed retrieving data.Drug Decriminalization in the United States: Emerging Models, Implementation Experiences and Implications for Health and Racial Equity
Failed retrieving data.Education, Income, Wealth, and Discrimination in Black-White Allostatic Load Disparities.
Failed retrieving data.Emerging models of de facto drug policy reforms in the United States
Failed retrieving data.Epidemiology of drug arrests in the United States : Evidence from the national survey on drug use and health, 2015–2019
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