Sarah Mccuskee, MD, MPhil

Sarah McCuskee, MD, MPhil, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Global Health & Health Systems Design, is a physician-scientist focusing on catastrophic threats to health systems and the consequences to patients these systems serve. Dr. McCuskee is core faculty in the Mount Sinai Center for Healthcare Readiness, in which her work focuses on climate and environmental events and integration and analysis of routine data. She analyzes healthcare supply during catastrophic events, and predicts health system demand, concentrating on identifying and mitigating drivers of vulnerability. Dr. McCuskee also is research faculty within the Mount Sinai Center for Sickle Cell Disease, for which she conducts National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)-funded research on patient outcomes and biologic mechanisms of environmental stress in several longitudinal cohorts of patients with sickle cell disease. In addition, she is a member of Mount Sinai’s NIEHS-funded Center on Health and Environment Across the LifeSpan, and serves on national and international academic emergency medicine committees.

Dr. McCuskee completed residency in emergency medicine at New York University Langone Medical Center/Bellevue Hospital. During residency, she was the principal investigator for grant-supported work modelling crisis response strategies within health systems worldwide. She partnered with investigators from the African Federation for Emergency Medicine (AFEM) to explore crisis resource allocation in the health systems of low and middle income countries. Her ongoing partnership with AFEM examines capacity strengthening as an aspect of global health equity. She received her medical degree from Stanford School of Medicine. Before entering clinical medicine, she was an academic health services researcher at the London School of Economics, studying comparative health systems, pharmacoeconomics, and national demography; she has worked in health systems strengthening and conducted research in over a dozen countries. She also holds a masters in philosophy degree in Public Health from Cambridge University, where mentorship in biostatistics fostered her interest in the rigorous use of observational data.