Nadia Abuelezam, ScD, is an epidemiologist and the 1855 Associate Professor of Family Medicine at MSU’s College of Human Medicine.
She received her doctorate in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where her dissertation focused on infectious disease mathematical modeling methods.
Her current research focuses on quantifying the structural forces behind health inequities. She is particularly interested in uncovering the drivers for health among Arab and Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) populations living in the United States. She works alongside these populations using community-centered and community-driven approaches with a common goal of advancing MENA health equity.
Due to her extensive statistical and quantitative training, she is particularly interested in developing new methods to incorporate structural causes, like racism, into epidemiological analyses.
