Medical Specialist
Minnesota Department of Health
Sarah Lim, MBBCh MPH is a Medical Specialist at the Minnesota Department of Health. She currently serves as clinical lead on the state program for COVID-19 therapeutics and has been involved in all aspects of the MDH Covid response including guidance review and healthcare provider communication. She has developed and implemented frameworks for allocation of scarce resources during the pandemic, including the online Minnesota Resource Allocation Platform for monoclonal antibodies in collaboration with the MN Covid Ethics Collaboration and the University of Minnesota. She also directs the MDH surveillance program for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) and was part of a joint CDC/CSTE working group to develop a revised MIS-C surveillance case definition for 2023. She currently serves on the IDSA Public Health Committee and the IDSA-ASPR COVID-19 Therapeutics Working Group.