Associations of U.S. state-level COVID-19 policies intensity with cannabis sharing behaviors in 2020.
Assaf RD, Hamad R, Javanbakht M, Arah OA, Shoptaw SJ, Cooper ZD, Gorbach PM.
Harm Reduct J. 2024 Apr 16. 21(1):82. PMID: 38622670
Associate Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Rita Hamad is a social epidemiologist and the director of the Social Policies for Health Equity Research Center (https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/sphere/). Her 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 as a family physician for 10 years in safety net clinics throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, although she is no longer a practicing doctor.
PhD, Epidemiology
Stanford University
MD, Medicine
University of California San Francisco
MPH, MS, Health & Medical Sciences
University of California Berkeley
AB, Chemistry
Harvard University
Outstanding Impact in Health & Social Justice Alumni Award
UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program
James C. Puffer, M.D./American Board of Family Medicine Fellowship
National Academy of Medicine
Hellman Fellowship
University of California San Francisco
Irene Perstein Award
University of California San Francisco
Assaf RD, Hamad R, Javanbakht M, Arah OA, Shoptaw SJ, Cooper ZD, Gorbach PM.
Harm Reduct J. 2024 Apr 16. 21(1):82. PMID: 38622670
Hamad R, Addo F, Montez K.
JAMA Pediatr. 2024 Apr 01. 178(4):333-334. PMID: 38407876
Hamad R.
Health Aff Sch. 2024 Mar. 2(3):qxae019. PMID: 38435810
Cozen AE, Carton T, Hamad R, Kornak J, Faulkner Modrow M, Peyser ND, Park S, Orozco JH, Brandner M, O'Brien EC, Djibo DA, McMahill-Walraven CN, Isasi CR, Beatty AL, Olgin JE, Marcus GM, Pletcher MJ.
PLoS One. 2024. 19(2):e0297922. PMID: 38319951
Modrek S, Collin DF, Hamad R, White JS.
Matern Child Health J. 2024 May. 28(5):959-968. PMID: 38244182
Karasek D, Batra A, Baer RJ, Butcher BDC, Feuer S, Fuchs JD, Kuppermann M, Gomez AM, Prather AA, Pantell M, Rogers E, Snowden JM, Torres J, Rand L, Jelliffe-Pawlowski L, Hamad R.
BMC Public Health. 2023 11 07. 23(1):2180. PMID: 37936102
Jensen NK, Frøslev T, Foverskov E, Glymour M, Sørensen HT, Hamad R.
Health Place. 2023 Nov. 84:103128. PMID: 37844523
Chiang AY, Batra A, Hamad R.
Prev Med. 2023 Oct. 175:107717. PMID: 37776907
Schwartz GL, Chiang AY, Wang G, Kim MH, White JS, Hamad R.
Soc Sci Med. 2023 10. 335:116214. PMID: 37716183
Raphael E, Barton M, Jaradeh K, Dieterich C, Hamad R.
BMC Public Health. 2023 07 27. 23(1):1438. PMID: 37501106