Mahasin Mujahid

Associate Professor of Epidemiology; Lillian E.I. and Dudley J. Aldous Chair

Berkeley Public Health

Faculty URL

http://sph.berkeley.edu/mahasin-mujahid

Contact

mmujahid@berkeley.edu

(510) 643-7155

(510) 643-5163

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Research Expertise and Interest

Multi-level determinants of racial/ethnic health disparities, neighborhood environments and cardiovascular health, breast cancer treatment and survivorship Methods in social epidemiology, population health

Research Description

Dr. Mujahid’s current research examines how features of neighborhood environments impact cardiovascular health and health disparities. Using data from several U.S. based cardiovascular cohorts, Dr. Mujahid seeks to improve the measurement of specific features of neighborhood physical and social environments and use state of the art statistical methods to estimate “causal” neighborhood health effects. In related research, Dr. Mujahid seeks to understand the multi-level and multi-factorial determinants of the clustering of cardiovascular risk factors (obesity, diabetes, hypertension) in racial/ethnic minorities and the consequences of this clustering on the long-term cardiovascular health of these groups.

In the News

50 Years After Being Outlawed, Redlining Still Drives Neighborhood Health Inequities

UC Berkeley School of Public Health's ongoing research shows that redlining persistently fuel racial and socioeconomic inequality.

Thomas Bros. redlining map of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, San Leandro, Piedmont, Emeryville, and Albany

The Legacy of Redlining Means Worse Cardiovascular Health for Present-Day Black Americans

A new study, Historical redlining and cardiovascular health: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, led by Berkeley Public Health’s Mahasin S. Mujahid, examined historical redlining, a discriminatory government-sanctioned policy and an indicator of structural racism, in relation to cardiovascular health.

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Structural Racism, Lack of Hospital Access Leads to Higher Rates of Severe Maternal Morbidity for Black and Native American Women

A new study from researchers at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Stanford University School of Medicine has determined that higher severe maternal morbidity rates for Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, and mixed-race women may be reduced if they had delivered in the same hospitals as non-Hispanic White women.

Race, law, and health policy

As the country moves toward reopening — and with it some sense of “normalcy” — UC Berkeley researchers said simply returning to normal isn’t enough. Rather, they said, dismantling structural racism must be part of any reopening strategy.

Structural Racism and COVID19: The Political Divide, Re-Opening the Society and Health Impacts on People of Color

At a time when the pandemic is being politicized, a panel of UC Berkeley scholars called on Friday for bridging among different social and racial groups to help recognize their common interests and to emerge from COVID-19 more unified.

Research on Racism and Public Health

Berkeley Public Health is committed to research that reveals how racism drives systemic inequities within the health sciences.

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Berkeley Public Health Is on the Frontline of Research into How Racism Affects Public Health

Race- and ethnicity-based inequities in health outcomes for Americans are not news to public health specialists. Here at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, our faculty, researchers, and students have been working to illuminate the many ways in which racism affects who gets healthcare, how that healthcare is delivered, and possible solutions to entrenched problems like police brutality.

Straight talk: A conversation about racism, health inequities and COVID-19

The broad death disparities black communities face during the spread of COVID-19 reflects health and societal inequities that existed for communities of color in the United States, long before the disease became a pandemic.