Title: Rare Diseases: Addressing the Importance of Public Health Genetics in Developing Countries
Dr. Shazina Saeed is an Assistant Professor at the Amity
Institute of Public Health. She has completed her MBBS from Universal College
of Medical Sciences, Nepal. After practicing internal medicine for two years
she pursued her Masters of Public Health (MPH) in Public Health Genetics from
the prestigious Graduate School of Public Health, the University of Pittsburgh
which is among the top-rated public health programs in the US. Dr. Shazina has
also earned a Masters of Science (MS) degree in Clinical genetics from the
School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Dr. Shazina was awarded a full scholarship at the University
of Pittsburgh and worked as a Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) on prestigious
NIH (National Institute of Health) funded projects. Her Master’s thesis work
yielded her a prestigious publication in “Nature Genetics”.
She has over nine years of experience in the field of public
health and clinical genetics with wet bench work experience. She has research
expertise in the areas of public health genetics, population genetics, research
methodology in public health. Her research interests are related to
developmental cardiovascular genetics, public health cardiology, and infectious
disease of developing nations.