Saad Omer
Professor Omer, Inaugural Director of the Yale Institute for Global Health
Professor Saad Omer, MBBS, MPH, Ph.D., FIDSA.
Saad B. Omer is the Director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, and a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Yale University, Schools of Medicine and Public Health. He has conducted studies in the United States, Guatemala, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and South Africa. Dr. Omer’s research portfolio includes epidemiology of respiratory viruses such as influenza, RSV, and - more recently - SARS-Cov-2 (COVID-19); clinical trials to estimate the efficacy of maternal and/or infant influenza, pertussis, polio, measles, and pneumococcal vaccines; and trials to evaluate drug regimens to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV. He has published over 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and has mentored over 100 junior faculty, clinical, research post-doctoral fellows, Ph.D., and other graduate students.