PhD Student Profile

Sarah Bassiouni, BS, MPH
- Doctoral Candidate
Education
MPH, Hospital and Molecular Epidemiology, University of Michigan, 2016
BS, Biochemistry (cum laude), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2011
BS, Biochemistry (cum laude), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2011
Research Interests & Projects
Molecular epidemiology, social epidemiology, and geospatial analysis to [1] better understand (re)emerging infectious diseases and parasitic diseases and [2] how to prevent them.
Selected Publications
- Bassiouni SS, Foster-Tucker JE, Callear AP, Godonou ET, Smith M, Johnson E, Martin ET, Monto AS.
A Comparative Profile of the Burden of Human Metapneumovirus, Respiratory Syncytial
Virus, and Influenza in the HIVE Cohort, 2010-2022. J Infect Dis. 2025 Jul 16;232(Supplement_1):S101-S108. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaf113.
PMID: 40668094; PMCID: PMC12265056.
- Banack HR, Rosella LC, Shiau S, Howe CJ, Martinez-Amezcua P, Fox MP, Adar SD, Harville EW, Young HA, Bassiouni SS, McBurney SH, Swift SL, Miller WC, Strickland MJ, Marino FR, Ehrhardt S, Pinney SM, Olola OO, Prins C, Zagarins SE, Haw NJL, Pollack AZ, Park SK, Goldmann E, Henkle EM, Kapadia F, Odegaard AO, Nguyen UDT, Oldenburg CE, Lesko CR. Defining methodologic and other core competencies for PhD-level training in epidemiology. Am J Epidemiol. 2025 Apr 9:kwaf073. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwaf073. 2025. PMID: 40202499.
- Shams-White, M.M., Tjaden A.H., Edelstein, S., Bassiouni S.S., Kim, C., Pi-Sunyer, X., Temple, K.A, Vendetti, E.M., Reedy, J., Heckman-Stoddard, B.M., Group DPP Research. The 2018 World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) and American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) Score and Diabetes Risk in the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS). BMC Nutr 8, 105 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40795-022-00596-7
- Bassiouni, S.S. Commentary on “First They Came for the Socialists . . . ”, Academic Medicine: May 2020 - Volume 95 - Issue 5 - p 739. doi: 10.1097/01.ACM.0000662220.06895.a1
- Bassiouni, S.S., White, E.M., Karvonen-Gutierrez, C., Harlow, S.D. (2020) Lack of food access and food consumption patterns of late midlife women in southeast Michigan. Michigan Journal of Public Health: Vol. 10 : Iss. 1, Article 8.