Dr Saima Afaq
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) Global Public Health
Profile
Biography
Saima currently serves as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Global Public Health at the Department of Health Sciences, University of York, UK. Within this role, she leads the Population Health and Diabetes intervention adaptation groups for the Centre of IMPACT. At the forefront of her responsibilities is leading the Proving Optimised TB and Diabetes Integrated Care (POTENTIAL) project in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). Additionally, Saima spearheads projects such as DiaDeM (Diabetes and Depression Multimorbidity) and TB multimorbidity. She has also been actively involved in the LOLIPOP study, iHealth T2Dstudy, and IMPACT-CCD initiative.
Saima's research endeavours center on enhancing physical and mental health and addressing multimorbidity, with a particular focus on migrant South Asians and LMICs, all aimed at advancing universal health coverage.
Qualifications
- Fellowship of Faculty of Public Health (FFPH) UK (Jun’2022)
- PhD in Public Health (Clinical medicine/Epidemiology and Biostatistics) from Imperial College London (Mar’ 2018).
- MBBS (NUST, Pakistan Dec’2010)
Departmental roles
- Member of the Culture Club Dept. of Health Sciences
- Member of the Global Public Health Group
- Faculty at the Public Health Society
- Leadership learning set, Centre for IMPACT