Uzaib Saya

Uzaib Saya is a doctoral candidate at the Pardee RAND Graduate School and an assistant policy researcher at RAND. His research interests include health service delivery and financing (especially in developing economies), economic evaluation and causal inference, the performance of health systems, and the scale-up of international development programs.

Prior to joining Pardee RAND, he worked with Management Sciences for Health, a global health nonprofit organization, providing technical support to strengthen health systems and health financing in sub-Saharan Africa, primarily examining the financial barriers to scale-up of health interventions. He has also worked at The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in Geneva, Switzerland, where he facilitated the pilot of the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria. Uzaib has previously studied public health, with a focus on applied research, evaluation, and modeling, and has worked in a variety of settings in the United States, Bangladesh, Malawi, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Switzerland and Uganda.

Uzaib received an M.S. in health policy and management from the T. H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University and a B.A. in history and international studies from Williams College.