Sapha Barkati
Dr. Sapha Barkati is an Associate Professor of infectious diseases and medical microbiology. She completed a master鈥檚 degree in virology at Universit茅 de Montr茅al and a postdoctoral fellowship in tropical medicine and parasitology at 平特五不中. Dr Barkati is the associate director- education of the J.D MacLean Centre for Tropical and Geographic Medicine at 平特五不中 and the director of this site within the GeoSentinel network. Since 2024, she is the program director of the training program in Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology at 平特五不中 university. Since 2018, she has become an established international faculty of the Gorgas Diploma Course, Instituto De Medicina Tropical 鈥淎lexander Von Humboldt鈥� at a Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru. She is the chair of the ISTM Migration and Refugee Interest Group Council. Her main interest is the epidemiology of tropical and parasitic diseases in vulnerable individuals, migrants and immunocompromised hosts.