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
Factors associated with daily use of benzodiazepines/tranquilizers and opioids among people who use drugs.
Failed retrieving data.Love after lockup : examining the role of marriage, social status, and financial stress among formerly incarcerated individuals
Failed retrieving data.Public support for reinvesting resources from enforcing drug possession to health-promoting alternatives : A nationally representative poll of adults in the United States
Failed retrieving data.Sleep-related impairment among people who use opioids: The critical role of structural vulnerability.
Failed retrieving data.The effects of message framing on US police chiefs' support for interventions for opioid use disorder: a randomized survey experiment.
Failed retrieving data.The effects of message framing on US police chiefs’ support for interventions for opioid use disorder : a randomized survey experiment
Failed retrieving data.Understaffed and beleaguered: a national survey of chiefs of police about the post-George Floyd era.
Failed retrieving data.Understanding sensitivity and cross-reactivity of xylazine lateral flow immunoassay test strips for drug checking applications.
Failed retrieving data.“What I should be doing is harm reduction, if I'm doing my job right” : Engagement with harm reduction principles among prosecutors enacting drug policy reform in the United States
Failed retrieving data.De Facto Decriminalization for Drug Possession and Sex Work in Baltimore, Maryland
Failed retrieving data.De Facto Decriminalization for Drug Possession and Sex Work in Baltimore, Maryland.
Failed retrieving data.Decriminalization of drug possession in Oregon: Analysis and early lessons
Failed retrieving data.Disruptions to naloxone training among lay and occupational responders in Maryland during the emergence of COVID-19: Early impacts, recovery, and lessons learned
Failed retrieving data.Factors associated with receptive injection equipment sharing among people who inject drugs : findings from a multistate study at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic
Failed retrieving data.High willingness to use overdose prevention sites among suburban people who use drugs who do not inject
Failed retrieving data.Implementation of Overdose Prevention in Maryland : Implications for Resource Allocation, Program Scale-Up, and Evaluation
Failed retrieving data.Increased solitary drug use during COVID-19 : An unintended consequence of social distancing
Failed retrieving data.Interest in treatment with injectable diacetylmorphine among people who use opioids in Baltimore City, Maryland (USA)
Failed retrieving data.Pathways to racial disparities in the effects of Good Samaritan Laws : A mixed methods pilot study
Failed retrieving data.Persistent Criminalization and Structural Racism in US Drug Policy : The Case of Overdose Good Samaritan Laws
Failed retrieving data.Racial Disparities in Drug Arrest Before and After De Facto Decriminalization in Baltimore
Failed retrieving data.Racial/ethnic disparities in drug arrests among people with past year illicit drug use in the United States: Evidence from the NSDUH 2015-2019
Failed retrieving data.Safety in solitude? Competing risks and drivers of solitary drug use among women who inject drugs and implications for overdose detection.
Failed retrieving data.Acceptability of Overdose Prevention Sites in the Business Community in Baltimore, Maryland.
Failed retrieving data.Alternative use of buprenorphine among people who use opioids in three U.S. Cities.
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