Sarah Shaw

Sarah Shaw (she/her) is a Research Scientist with the UW Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children (GWACh) in the Department of Global Health. Sarah completed her PhD in Global Health Implementation Science at the University of Washington in 2025. Her research focuses on the optimization, scale-up, and sustainability of evidence-based interventions and the adaptation of research tools for pragmatic community settings, prioritizing community-based participatory research methods to meaningfully engage partners and community collaborators across the research and practice continuums.

Her doctoral work examined organizational and health systems strengthening to enhance holistic service delivery models that integrate HIV and social determinants of health (SDH) services within community-based organizations in King County, Washington and investigated drivers of intervention scale-up and sustainability to maximize reach and impact in health facilities in Kenya.

In her current role, Sarah supports a hybrid implementation-effectiveness cluster randomized controlled trial (ATTACH-scale) testing an implementation strategy for scaling up the Adolescent Transition Package (ATP) in Kenya. Prior to starting her PhD, Sarah worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and Malawi, supporting program implementation and research activities related to HIV prevention, gender-based violence prevention and response, and sexual and reproductive health, particularly among youth populations in southern Africa. Sarah also received her MPH in Health Behavior and Health Education from the University of Michigan and has an undergraduate degree in Anthropology from UCLA.

Email: sarahs29@uw.edu