Sugar-sweetened beverage taxes and perinatal health: A quasi-experimental study.
Jackson KE, Hamad R, Karasek D, White JS.
Am J Prev Med. 2023 Mar 24. PMID: 36966893
Dr. Rita Hamad is a social epidemiologist and family physician in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies and the Department of Family & Community Medicine at UCSF. She is the director of the Social Policies for Health Equity Research Program (https://sphere.ucsf.edu). In July 2023, she will be joining the Harvard School of Public Health as an Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
Dr. Hamad's research focuses on the pathways linking social factors like poverty and education with racial and socioeconomic disparities in health across the life course. In particular, she studies the health effects of social and economic policies using interdisciplinary quasi-experimental methods to generate actionable evidence to inform policymaking. She is the co-Chair of the Communications Committee of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science and serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Health Affairs Scholar. In 2020-2022, she was the James C. Puffer American Board of Family Medicine / National Academy of Medicine Fellow. She has provided consultation to state and federal legislators on the design of poverty alleviation policies. Dr. Hamad mentors trainees at all levels in population health and health equity research, and lectures in several courses about the effects of social policies on health inequities. She saw patients for 10 years in safety net clinics throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, although she is no longer a practicing physician.
Jackson KE, Hamad R, Karasek D, White JS.
Am J Prev Med. 2023 Mar 24. PMID: 36966893
Raphael E, Azar KMJ, Gu D, Shen Z, Rubinsky A, Wang M, Pantell M, Lyles CR, Fernandez A, Bibbins-Domingo K, Pressman A, Nasrallah C, Hamad R.
Ethn Health. 2023 Mar 12. 1-17. PMID: 36907661
Collin DF, Pulvera R, Hamad R.
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2023 Feb 17. 23(1):118. PMID: 36803304
Park S, Marcus GM, Olgin JE, Carton T, Hamad R, Pletcher MJ.
JAMA Netw Open. 2023 01 03. 6(1):e2252684. PMID: 36696115
Batra A, Jackson K, Hamad R.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2023 01. 42(1):74-82. PMID: 36623218
Kim MH, Foverskov E, Frøslev T, White JS, Glymour MM, Hainmueller J, Pedersen L, Sørensen HT, Hamad R.
SSM Popul Health. 2023 Mar. 21:101312. PMID: 36589275
Hamad R, Gosliner W, Brown EM, Hoskote M, Jackson K, Esparza EM, Fernald LCH.
Health Aff (Millwood). 2022 12. 41(12):1715-1724. PMID: 36469822
Wang G, Seligman H, Levi R, Hamad R.
Transl Behav Med. 2022 11 16. 12(10):1009-1017. PMID: 36073737
Guan A, Batra A, Hamad R.
BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2022 Nov 02. 22(1):806. PMID: 36324108
Foverskov E, White JS, Frøslev T, Sørensen HT, Hamad R.
JAMA Pediatr. 2022 11 01. 176(11):1107-1114. PMID: 36094528