(Part 2) Epidemiology and Race: Why and How We Study Racial Health Disparities

Magdalena Cerdá is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, at the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the effects that state and national drug and health policies have on substance abuse trends, and on the ways the urban context shapes violence. She also uses computational models such as agent-based models and machine learning to forecast emerging trends in injury risk and to predict the types of interventions needed to reduce population-level rates of injury and racial/ethnic inequalities in injury risk. Current funded research focuses on the impact that cannabis laws and opioid policies have on substance abuse, mental illness, and associated health problems in the United States and South America.