About Us
The EPIX Lab focuses on answering timely, feasible, impactful applied health services research questions. We leverage diverse data sources, epidemiological methods, and community partnerships as an interdisciplinary team to maximize knowledge mobilization.
Currently, EPIX’s research involves evaluating public health policies and gaps in health service delivery, with a focus on infectious diseases (syphilis, HIV/AIDS, and SARS-CoV-2) and chronic liver conditions (metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and hepatitis C).
Collaboration, advocacy, and community are central to the EPIX Lab's research. Our goal is to help inform public health decision-making. Therefore, we partner with a vast network of healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, and individuals with lived experiences.
Our Principal Investigator
Sahar Saeed PhD, MSc
Dr. Sahar Saeed is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen's University and the Principal Investigator of the EPIX Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from McGill University (2019) and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Implementation Science at Washington University in St. Louis (2022). Her research interests lie at the intersection of policy evaluation, health outcome disparities, and knowledge translation. As an epidemiologist and health services researcher, Sahar leverages innovative methods and data to study population-level health inequalities among underserved populations. Since 2016, her research has consistently been funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), and she has published more than 50 papers.
Our Collaborators.
