Sasha Fahme, MD

Sasha Fahme, MD

HIGH IRI Fellow | Weill Cornell Medicine

Dr. Sasha Fahme is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and Affiliate Research Faculty at the American University of Beirut. Informed by her clinical work, Dr. Fahme’s research examines the impact of armed conflict and protracted forced displacement on women’s sexual and reproductive health in complex humanitarian settings. She led the first mixed-methods study of Syrian refugee women’s sexual health which demonstrated a syndemic of sexually transmitted infections, violence against women, war trauma, poor mental health, and food insecurity in this population. She is currently leading an NIH-Fogarty International Center K01-funded study which seeks to systematically adapt, pilot-test, and preliminarily evaluate an evidence-based, refugee-led sexual health intervention in a single-group feasibility study of Syrian refugee women displaced in Lebanon. Dr. Fahme serves on the research committee of the Syrian American Medical Society and the leadership committee of the Weill Cornell Women in Global Health Research Initiative. She is the Co-Director of the Female Global Scholars Program, a peer mentorship program for early-career women conducting health research in low- and middle-income countries. Dr. Fahme holds an M.D. degree from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.