Part 2: Has epidemiology made a difference in race-related health disparities?

This series of panels will examine how race and racial health disparities are studied in epidemiology. The second panel in our series will ask if epidemiology has made a difference in race-related health disparities.

Cohosted with the Society for Epidemiologic Research.

Part 1: Thursday, February 25, 4:30 – 6:00 PM

Part 2: Friday, February 26, 10:00 – 11:30 AM

Part 3: Friday, February 26, 12:30 – 2:00 PM

Speakers

Amani Allen

Professor, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health
Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha

Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Macarius Donneyong

Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University
Joseph Graves

Professor, Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering
Pat O'Campo

Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
Magdalena Cerda

MODERATOR Associate Professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health

Magdalena Cerda

MODERATOR Associate Professor, Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health

Magdalena Cerdá is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, at the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the effects that state and national drug and health policies have on substance abuse trends, and on the ways the urban context shapes violence. She also uses computational models such as agent-based models and machine learning to forecast emerging trends in injury risk and to predict the types of interventions needed to reduce population-level rates of injury and racial/ethnic inequalities in injury risk. Current funded research focuses on the impact that cannabis laws and opioid policies have on substance abuse, mental illness, and associated health problems in the United States and South America.