Amira Haidar is an At-Large Presidential Management Fellow on the Health Specialist track at the National Institutes of Health. She is currently completing a rotation with the Implementation Science (IS) Team in the Office of the Director in the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the National Cancer Institute
Amira received her Master of Public Health in Health Management and Policy from the University of Michigan School of Public Health where she researched the impacts of federal and state policies on healthcare access among minority communities. She is currently pursuing a Master of Business from Wayne State University with a double concentration in marketing and finance.
Amira has experience in nonprofit organizations and local government, where she worked on various community health initiatives that addressed health challenges and improved lives. These experiences helped her foster a strong background in health policy, program implementation and development, health communication, and community health.
Interests
- Health Communications
- The impact of health literacy on access to care
- Intervention implementation among vulnerable populations