Saqif Mustafa
Job Title
PhD student & global health consultant
Research interests
Research interests
Health policy, public health, health systems, health system strengthening, health system resilience, emergency preparedness and response.
Background
Saqif is a researcher at the Global Health Policy Unit, University of Edinburgh, and a Technical Officer (Health Systems Resilience and Essential Public Health Functions) in the Special Programme on Primary Health Care at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters. He was previously a Consultant in the Integrated Health Services Department at WHO.
His research focuses on health systems and policy responses to infectious diseases like Ebola and COVID-19 in low resource and fragile settings (such as Liberia). His research aims to examine policy formation and the approaches taken to strengthen emergency preparedness and response capacities, in tandem with routine health system functionality, in the wake of Ebola and how these have been deployed in the context of COVID-19 and beyond.
PhD Supervisors
Dr. Mark Hellowell and Prof. Devi Sridhar
Qualifications
2010-2019: MB ChB BSc (Hons.), Medicine and Pharmacology, Edinburgh Medical School; MSc, Global Health Policy, Global Health Policy Unit, The University of Edinburgh; 2019-present: PhD, Global Health Policy, Global Health Policy Unit, The University of Edinburgh; 2020-present: FRSPH, Fellow, Royal Society for Public Health UK.