study team

Maggie Hoover worked as the Clinical Nurse Facilitator, Research Coordinator and Outreach Lead at Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington Public Health from 2023-2024 and has remained part of the SPRITE team as a Consultant.

Mary Southall is a Public Health Nurse with 15 years of expertise in the Infectious Disease Prevention Division at South East Health Unit. She holds a BScN and a MPH with a specialization in Infection Prevention and Control from Queen's University. In her current role as Clinical Nursing Facilitator on the Knowledge Management team at South East Health Unit, Mary is the team lead for the SPRITE study.

Megan holds an MSc in epidemiology and a PhD in population health, with a keen interest and expertise in social epidemiology, health equity, implementation science and program evaluation. She is a Research Associate at South East Health Unit as well as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University. Megan leverages her 15+ years of experience in public and population health while overseeing the implementation of SPRITE project coordination across health units and community partners. She is Principal Applicant on several SPRITE study grants.

Sahar Saeed is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University and the Principal Investigator of the EPIX Lab. She received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from McGill University in 2019 and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Implementation Science at Washington University in St. Louis in 2022. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on addressing health inequities in infectious diseases by examining health policies and novel models of care. She fosters collaborations across public health, clinical, and academic sectors to drive policy change and enhance healthcare delivery by integrating advanced epidemiological methods with patient-centred implementation science. Consistently funded by the CIHR since 2016 and with over 60 peer-reviewed publications, her work advances access to equitable care models and improves outcomes for underserved communities. She is the Nominated Principal Applicant on several CIHR proposals that fund the SPRITE Study, where she leads the research objectives and mentors' trainees.