Saiqa Mullick is Director of Implementation Science at Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (Wits RHI) responsible for leading the development and implementation of a large portfolio of programmatic research and technical assistance. Her qualifications include a PhD in epidemiology, a medical degree, two Masters level degrees in Public Health Methodology and in Public Health in Developing Countries.
Dr Mullick has over 20 years’ experience in clinical services, implementation science, M&E, sexual and reproductive health and HIV. She has provided technical assistance and capacity building in developing country settings including Kenya, Lesotho, Swaziland, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and South Africa. She provides oversight to design and conduct of implementation science studies and has worked closely with governments, NGOs and stakeholders to promote utilisation of research through support to policy and guideline development at national and global level.
Her areas of technical expertise include adolescent sexual and reproductive health, sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), integration of HIV and sexual and reproductive health services, maternal health including contraception, antiretroviral (ARV) based HIV prevention and sexually transmitted and reproductive tract infections. She currently serves as Principal Investigator on a national initiative providing technical support to programming for adolescent girls and young women and is also Deputy Director of OPTIONS, a multi-country programme supporting creative research and innovation critical to advancing potential ARV-based HIV prevention products for women.
