Sarah Taha

Sarah Taha

Research Assistant
Sarah Taha

Sarah Taha is from Beirut, Lebanon and recently graduated from a two-year Master of Science Program in Global Health and Population at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed her master’s thesis on the association between parental interactions and early child development outcomes that won the Global Health John Snow Inc. best thesis award at Harvard T.H. Chan. Prior to her master’s, she received a B.S. in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University. During her time at Emory she focused her thesis project on the neural correlates of autobiographical memory. Ever since, she transitioned to working on addressing various aspects related to mental health (i.e. access issues, interventions, etc.) and child development. She was a student research assistant at the Mental Health for All Lab at HMS for a year and a half and is now a full-time research assistant III with the lab working on various projects. Currently, her focus is on the EMPOWER project.