Professor Saiqa Mullick is a Reader/Associate Professor and Director of Implementation Science at Wits RHI. Prof Saiqa Mullick is a medical doctor with a PhD in infectious disease epidemiology. She specialises in innovative interventions for HIV, sexual and reproductive health, and the intersections of climate and health. At Wits RHI, she leads a multi-disciplinary team driving implementation science research, policy support, demand creation, market shaping, and large-scale program execution.
Notably, she is the principal investigator on multiple implementation science studies focusing on generating real-world data on biomedical HIV prevention as part of integrated service delivery for young women and providing technical assistance for introduction at scale. She has served as Deputy Director for the USAID-funded OPTIONS Consortium, enhancing PrEP access for women in South Africa, Kenya, and Zimbabwe. She was also a strategic leader in the MOSAIC project, accelerating new biomedical HIV prevention products across 10 countries in East and Southern Africa.
Prof Mullick serves on several national and international technical expert committees, including the national PrEP and STI technical working groups and the WHO STI Global Guidelines Development Group. She is a frequent speaker at global conferences on HIV prevention and adolescent health and has published extensively in these fields.
