Contact Information

Email: saeedama@cvm.msu.edu

Education

• DVM, University of Baghdad, 1973
• MS, University of Baghdad, 1976
• PhD, Washington State University, 1984
• MPH, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, 1989
• ACVPM

Research Interests

• Mahdi Saeed is a professor of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases with a joint appointment in large-animal clinical sciences in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Epidemiology in the College of Human Medicine and the National food Safety Center at Michigan State University. His main areas of research are the causes and prevention of food borne illnesses. Dr. Saeed designed and has been teaching LCS 830 (Public Health Impact of Foodborne Diseases), EPI 813 (Outbreak Investigation), and several modules in LCS 647 ( Concepts of Agric Practice). Currently, Dr. Saeed is leading research at the National Food Safety Center on the virulence evolution of Salmonella Enteritidis that led to the emergence of this serotype to become one of the most common foodborne pathogens. Several important facts on this subject were addressed, submitted and accepted for publication in reputable scientific journals. Dr. Saeed is mentoring five graduate students who are working on the epidemiology and pathogenesis of comparative enteric diseases such as Salmonella and E. coli infections. Dr. Saeed is the editor-in-chief of Salmonella Enterica Serovar Enteritidis in Humans and Animals: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis and Control, a book cited in medical journals and chosen by reviewers as one of the best 200 out of 2,800 medical books.