Dr. Suzue Saito is an epidemiologist and public health specialist with over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing large-scale strategic information systems for public health service delivery and surveillance programs. Dr. Saito is currently the principal investigator of the global health security surveillance project that supports wide ranging priority disease and antimicrobial resistance surveillance capacity strengthening initiatives in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Central America, and Southern African regions. Further, building on her extensive experience in public health evaluations to evaluate the impact of innovative HIV-related health services using implementation science and quasi-experimental study methods, she is the evaluation lead for the CDC-funded regional centers for public health preparedness and response project, spearheading approaches to design evaluations to generate evidence-based strategies and interventions. Previously, as the project director for the Tracking with Recency Assays to Control the Epidemic (TRACE) Project, and, as director of Strategic Information for the Population-based HIV Impact Assessment (PHIA) Project, Dr. Saito gained extensive experience standing up surveillance systems to identify and track HIV-1 recent infections and conducting HIV-focused, national household surveys in resource-limited settings. Additionally, as the principal investigator of strategic information strengthening projects in Lesotho and the Democratic Republic of Congo, she has also supported the national health information management systems to collect and manage high-quality program data to improve data-driven public health decision making. Dr. Saito holds a Doctoral Degree in Epidemiology from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University.
