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Dr. Hoda Abdel Magid is an Assistant Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences with the USC Keck School of Medicine and of Spatial Sciences with the USC Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute.

Her research focuses on understanding how place affects health. She examines how social determinants of health (such as income or employment) affect chronic disease behaviors and chronic disease outcomes. Dr. Abdel Magid also is interested in the disproportionate risk to socially and racially marginalized communities that is largely due to the contextual health influences of the physical and...

Degrees

Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley
Masters of Health Sciences, Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
B.S., Biology and Public Health Sciences, Santa Clara University

Recent publications

Abdel Magid HS, Topol B, McGuire V, Hinman JA, Kasarskis EJ, Nelson LM. Cardiovascular Diseases, Medications, and ALS: A Population-Based Case-Control Study. Neuroepidemiology. 2022 Dec 8:1-10. doi:
10.1159/000526982. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36481735.

Abdel Magid HS, Shan J, Culpepper W, Nelson LM, Wallin M. Telemedicine Utilization among Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in the US Veterans Health Administration: 2010-2020. Neurology: Clinical Practice. 2022 Oct 12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/CPJ.0000000000200078

Jimenez MP, Gutierrez TB, Soria-Contreras DC, Abdel Magid HS, Kaufman JS, Society For Epidemiologic Research OBOTDAICOT. Increasing Representation of Epidemiologists from Around...