Shehnaz Alidina

Shehnaz Alidina, ScD, MPH, MHA is a health systems researcher at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Her research has focused on how health systems can improve health for people in high and low-income countries. Her areas of investigation have included surgical quality, integrated delivery systems, and primary care innovation.

Dr. Alidina’s recent efforts have focused on researching interventions to strengthen surgical systems in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Cambodia. Her research has contributed important findings about organizational behavior and quality of care within healthcare settings in low resource settings. She has also examined how to build human resource capacity in surgery and in research in low resource settings.

Prior to coming to Harvard, she held leadership roles in redesigning health delivery systems. She was the founding executive director of the Nipissing-Timiskaming District Health Council and of the Child Health Network in Canada where she led collaborative planning across organizational boundaries to develop and implement strategic plans for health system reform, and promote an environment for integration. She has also led planning to facilitate integrated, regionalized health delivery networks in Tajikistan and East Africa.

Dr. Alidina earned her MHA from the University of Ottawa, and her MPH and ScD in Health Management and Policy from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. She was awarded the McGaw Medal of Excellence and the Father Danis Award at the University of Ottawa, and the Duke Global Health Fellowship, Alice E. Wilson Dissertation Award, and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs’ Research Fellowship at Harvard.