Zeina Waheed

Bio

Zeina is a PhD Candidate at the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health with Dr. Stirling Bryan as her supervisor. She previously completed her BSc in Cell and Developmental Biology and MSc in Neuroscience. Zeina joined the C2E2 team in October 2021 as a Graduate Research Assistant working with Dr. Stirling Bryan, Dr. Jehannine Austin and Dr. Kim McGrail’s team on the Pharmacogenomics for Depression project. Zeina’s research interests include health economics, patient outcomes, health care systems analysis, epidemiology, patient-oriented research, knowledge mobilization, and health services and policy research. Zeina’s PhD research will focus on identifying, developing and evaluating alternative implementation strategies for pharmacogenomic testing for major depressive disorder. Zeina will be using qualitative and quantitative methodologies (e.g., administrative data analysis, simulation modelling) during her PhD research.