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
Businesses in high drug use areas as potential sources of naloxone during overdose emergencies.
Failed retrieving data.Discordance Between Self-reported and Biologically Tested Exposure to Fentanyl Among People at Risk of Opioid Overdose.
Failed retrieving data.HIV Risk Among Urban and Suburban People Who Inject Drugs : Elevated Risk Among Fentanyl and Cocaine Injectors in Maryland
Failed retrieving data.Identifying pathways to recent non-fatal overdose among people who use opioids non-medically: How do psychological pain and unmet mental health need contribute to overdose risk?
Failed retrieving data.NIMBYism and Harm Reduction Programs : Results from Baltimore City
Failed retrieving data.PWUD Experiences of Criminal Justice Reform : Enduring Tensions Between Policing and Harm Reduction in Baltimore, MD
Failed retrieving data.Racial resentment and support for decriminalization of drug possession in the United States
Failed retrieving data.Safe Drug Consumption Spaces: Implications for Baltimore City A Report for the Abell Foundation
Failed retrieving data.Self and professional treatment of skin and soft tissue infections among women who inject drugs: Implications for wound care provision to prevent endocarditis
Failed retrieving data.Selling sex in the context of substance use : social and structural drivers of transactional sex among men who use opioids in Maryland
Failed retrieving data.The Epidemiology of Sapovirus in the Etiology, Risk Factors, and Interactions of Enteric Infection and Malnutrition and the Consequences for Child Health and Development Study : Evidence of Protection Following Natural Infection
Failed retrieving data.Understanding the longitudinal relationship between substance use and violent victimization among street-based women who exchange sex in Baltimore, Maryland
Failed retrieving data.Attitudes and Beliefs about the COVID-19 Vaccine Among United States Adults: A Latent Class Analysis
Failed retrieving data.Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Construct Validity of the Internalized Sex Work Stigma Scale among a Cohort of Cisgender Female Sex Workers in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Failed retrieving data.Evaluation of prosecutorial policy reforms eliminating criminal penalties for drug possession and sex work in Baltimore, Maryland
Failed retrieving data.Food access among people who inject drugs in West Virginia
Failed retrieving data.Homotypic and Heterotypic Protection and Risk of Reinfection following Natural Norovirus Infection in a Highly Endemic Setting
Failed retrieving data.Implications of attitudes and beliefs about COVID-19 vaccines for vaccination campaigns in the United States : A latent class analysis
Failed retrieving data.Incidence and predictors of violence from clients, intimate partners and police in a prospective US-based cohort of women in sex work
Failed retrieving data.Perceived vulnerability to overdose-related arrests among people who use drugs in Maryland.
Failed retrieving data.Practical implications of naloxone knowledge among suburban people who use opioids
Failed retrieving data.Resilience among Cisgender and Transgender Women in Street-Based Sex Work in Baltimore, Maryland.
Failed retrieving data.Agency in the fentanyl era: Exploring the utility of fentanyl test strips in an opaque drug market.
Failed retrieving data.Diarrhea as a Potential Cause and Consequence of Reduced Gut Microbial Diversity Among Undernourished Children in Peru.
Failed retrieving data.Gut Microbiota Features Associated With Campylobacter Burden and Postnatal Linear Growth Deficits in a Peruvian Birth Cohort.
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