Miriam Sabin is The Lancet’s North American Senior Executive Editor, based in New York City, where she has been with the journal since 2020, and oversees The Lancet’s North American acquisition strategy. Miriam is a social scientist and applied epidemiologist by training and was in global health prior to coming to The Lancet. Miriam lived for 13 years in Europe from 2008-2020 where she worked primarily in Geneva at the WHO, along with the Global Fund, and UNAIDS.
Before 2008, Miriam was at the CDC, first as a postdoctoral fellow in the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, and then as a Senior Scientist in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps in the CDC’s Division of Viral Hepatitis and the Division of Global HIV/AIDS under PEPFAR I. Dr. Sabin has also lived and worked in Tunisia, Bangladesh, and Brazil, and provided technical assistance in many countries for PEPFAR, WHO, UNAIDS and the Global Fund. She holds a PhD in Social Work from the University of Georgia, where she was also an Assistant Professor, a MSc in Social Work from Columbia University, and a BA in English literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.