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
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
Onyebuchi Arah
Diversity and Inclusion Co-Chair
Onyebuchi (Onyi) Arah is a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Fielding School of Public Health, an affiliated professor in the Department of Statistics, and an Associate Dean of Graduate Education at Graduate Division, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He also serves as Honorary Skou Professor at Aarhus University in Denmark. He is a physician and an epidemiologic methodologist specializing in quantitative methods for bias analysis, causal inference, clinical outcomes and comparative effectiveness research, and global social epidemiology. His research interests include applications of modern statistical, causal, and bias analytical methods to studies of metabolic, pediatric, perinatal, occupational, cardiovascular, infectious, and life course exposures and outcomes. Read more
Contact
Professor
University of California, Los Angeles
650 Charles E. Young Drive South
Box 951772
71-236B CHS
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Email: arah@ucla.edu
Phone: 310-206-0050
Website: https://ph.ucla.edu/faculty/arah
DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION MEMBERS
Amira Aker
Sarah Andrea
Obefemi Babalola
Monique Brown
Juan Castillo
Timothy Crawford
Mary Diazsantana
Luther Fasehun
David Gonzalez
Bernard Harlow
Marcia Jimenez
Christina Ludema
Veronica McSorley
Stefania Papatheodeorou
Victor Polanco
Domonique Reed
Lindsay Rhodes
Jamaica Robinson
Brooke Staley
Aracelis Torres
Desiree Vidana
Yaguang Wei
Mahsa Yazdy