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Dr. Zahid Butt is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo. He is a physician and infectious disease epidemiologist. His research applies a ‘syndemic’ framework to examine inter-relationships between epidemics of infectious diseases, social disparities, co-morbidities, and substance use, using epidemiological, statistical, spatial and machine learning methods.

His other areas of interest include digital health, global health, and spatial epidemiologic methods and their application to public health practice. Dr. Butt is an associate editor for BMC Public Health and section editor in chief of infectious disease epidemiology section at IJERPH.

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