Hoda Abdel Magid
University of Southern California, CA·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
High blood pressure (hypertension) affects half of American adults and weighs especially heavily on African Americans. Gaps between groups in who is diagnosed, treated and controlled follow geographic patterns.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Mathematics & Statistics
- Topics
hypertension
high blood pressure
health disparities
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2027
What they work on
- Estimate how socioeconomic spatial social polarization (race, income, education, segregation) relates to hypertension prevalence, new cases, treatment and control among Black and White adults in the CHS and REGARDS cohorts.
- Develop a structural spatial social polarization index from neighborhood access to food, recreation, healthcare and housing, and test its association with hypertension.
- Evaluate how much socioeconomic and structural polarization explain Black-White hypertension disparities, using linked cohort, claims and spatial data with causal inference methods.
More about the research
This project asks how neighborhoods marked by extreme concentrations of privilege and deprivation drive those gaps.
Why it matters
This work could improve public health tracking of hypertension disparities. It could also estimate how much of the Black-White gap in high blood pressure might shrink by addressing differences in neighborhood income, segregation, and access to food, recreation, healthcare and housing. Such evidence could inform neighborhood-level interventions to reduce cardiovascular risk among African Americans.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
University of Southern California: 47 labs on PI Pages, $1.3B a year on research, 882 research doctorates a year.
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