She is a multidisciplinary researcher with a background in human geography and behavioural studies.  Her current main research areas span health policy and systems research (system governance, financing, and responsiveness to patients and publics) and empirical ethics, including the everyday ethics of frontline health provision and of conducting studies in resource poor settings.  Sassy sits in leadership positions in several international networks, including the Global Health Bioethics Network, the Ethics Thematic Working Group in Health Systems Global, and until recently RINGS, a ppartnership to foster gender and ethics analysis in health systems research and practice.