Dr. Sarah Masyuko is an assistant professor with the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington.
Prior to joining the University of Washington, she led the HIV prevention team, the HIV testing services and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) program, and the adolescents and young people program in the Kenya Ministry of Health-HIV program. She is a medical doctor and an implementation scientist who received her Masters in Global Health and a PhD in Global Health-Implementation Science from the University of Washington. Her research spans from designing, optimizing, implementing, disseminating and bringing to scale evidence-based health interventions in HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment and Non-communicable diseases in low and middle income countries.
She is currently the Implementation science co-lead for the American Heart Association funded RURAL-PROCARE grant that supports 5 implementation science projects in the US focused on improving cardiovascular health in rural America. She is also a principal investigator for a NIH funded supplement to assess frailty and osteoporosis among women aging with HIV in Kenya and to develop culturally appropriate tools for geriatric assessment in this population.
