Mahasin Mujahid, PhD, MS, FAHA, is a social epidemiologist, who employs interdisciplinary and community-based approaches to investigate racial/ethnic and place-based health disparities. Her primary area of research examines the role of neighborhood environment in cardiovascular health. She uses data from several US-based cardiovascular cohorts and novel statistical methods to improve the measurement of neighborhood physical/social environments, investigate neighborhood health effects, and examine root causes of racial/ethnic health disparities. She is an Associate Professor of Epidemiology, at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health where she is a Chancellor’s Professor and Director of the MPH Program in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She earned a B.S. in Mathematics from Xavier University in New Orleans, LA, and an M.S. in Biostatistics and Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In addition, Dr. Mujahid did her post-doctoral training at Harvard University where she was a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar.