The mission of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee in the Society for Epidemiologic Research is to foster the diversity of our membership and work towards the engagement of all members, from diverse backgrounds at all stages of their careers, in the Society’s activities, with the intent of enhancing discovery in public health.
Hoda S. Abdel Magid
Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair
Hoda S. Abdel Magid earned a Masters of Health Science in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins University and PhD in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently completing her postdoctoral training in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University and is also a fellow in the Big Data-Scientist Training Enhancement Program (BD-STEP) at the Palo Alto VA. Additionally, she is currently a lecturer at Santa Clara University, teaching undergraduate epidemiology and biostatistics. Her current research builds upon her previous training to further understand chronic disease risk behaviors and leverages spatial epidemiology to examine health disparities among socially-marginalized communities.
Contact
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health
Stanford University
Big Data Scientist Training Enhancement Fellow (BD-STEP)
VA Palo Alto Health Care System
Public Health Sciences Program
Santa Clara University
Email: hmagid@stanford.edu | Hoda.AbdelMagid@va.gov | hmagid@scu.edu
Website: habdelmagid.io
Office: (650) 736 – 2968
Jay Kaufman
Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair
Jay S. Kaufman earned a PhD in epidemiology from the University of Michigan, followed by a post-doctoral position at Loyola Stritch School of Medicine. Later he was Medical Epidemiologist at Carolinas Medical Center before spending a decade on faculty at the UNC School of Public Health at Chapel Hill and the Carolina Population Center. In 2009 he began his current position in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University, and holds visiting appointments at schools of public health in Chile, Michigan and North Carolina. He is former chair of the SER Education Committee, an editor at “Epidemiology” an associate editor at “American Journal of Epidemiology” and co-editor of the textbook “Methods in Social Epidemiology” (2nd Ed, 2017).
Contact
Department of Epidemiology,
Biostatistics, and Occupational Health
McGill University
1020 Pine Ave West
Montreal, Quebec H3A1A2 CANADA
Email: jay.kaufman@mcgill.ca
Website: www.jayskaufman.com
Phone: 514-398-7341
David Lopez
Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair
David S. Lopez completed a pre-doctoral fellowship training in cancer epidemiology at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center- Department of Epidemiology, and a post-doctoral fellowship training in cancer epidemiology at the Bloomberg Johns Hopkins School of Public Health- Department of Epidemiology. In 2018 he began an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Population Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch. He is currently an Associate Professor in the same Department. Dr. Lopez research interests is in cancer health disparities, hormone-related cancers, cardiovascular diseases and their interplay with statins and endogenous and exogenous testosterone.
Contact
The University of Texas Medical Branch
301 University Blvd.
Galveston, TX 77555
Phone: 409-772-913
Email: davlopez@utmb.edu
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION MEMBERS
Amira Aker
Sarah Andrea
Obefemi Babalola
Monique Brown
Timothy Crawford
Mary Diazsantana
Aileen Duldulao
Luther – King Fasehun
David Gonzalez
Bernard Harlow
Marcia Pescador Jimenez
Dayna Johnson
Christina Ludema
Veronica McSorley
Lindsay Fernandez-Rhodes
Jamaica Robinson
Brooke Staley
Alvin Thomas
Aracelis Torres
Desiree Vidana