Hoda S. Abdel Magid, MHS, PhD

Hoda S. Abdel Magid, MHS, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences and in the Spatial Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California. Previously, she served as an instructor and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford University, where she received an NHLBI K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award. She earned her Master of Health Science from Johns Hopkins University and completed her doctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley.

Her research focuses on understanding how space and place affect health. She examines how structural and social determinants of health affect chronic disease behaviors and outcomes. She is currently working to develop a spatial epidemiologic framework for integrating diverse data sources—such as electronic health records, survey data, and geographic information systems (GIS)—to reduce health disparities among socially marginalized populations. Dr. Abdel Magid’s work leverages advanced methodologies in social and spatial epidemiologic methods, causal inference, and machine learning. Her research portfolio includes applications in chronic diseases, aging, and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD).

Dr. Abdel Magid’s training and research have been supported, in part, by funding from the NIH, the American Heart Association, and other collaborative grants. Her RCMAR project focuses on Estimating the Impact of Spatial Social Polarization on Dementia Disparities, focuses on identifying and addressing disparities in cognitive aging and ADRD.

Publications:

• Abdel Magid HS, Desjardins MR, Hu Y. Opportunities and shortcomings of AI for spatial epidemiology and health disparities research on aging and the life course. Health Place. 2024 Sep;89:103323. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103323. Epub 2024 Jul 23. PMID: 39047648; PMCID: PMC11402565.
• Abdel Magid HS,Jaros S, Li Y, Steinman MA, Lee S, Jing B, Fung K, Liu CK, Liu X, Graham LA, Odden MC. Effects of residential socioeconomic polarization on high blood pressure among nursing home residents. Health and Place. 2024 May;87:103243. PMCID: PMC11102837.
• Odden MC, Li Y, Thorpe RJ Jr, Tan A, Sims KD, Ratcliff J, Abdel Magid HS, Sims M. Neighborhood factors and survival to old age: The Jackson Heart Study. Prev Med Rep. 2023 Aug 2;35:102360. doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2023.102360. PMID: 37588880; PMCID: PMC10425932.
• Abdel Magid HS, Topol B, McGuire V, Hinman JA, Kasarskis EJ, Nelson LM. Cardiovascular Diseases, Medications, and ALS: A Population-Based Case-Control Study. Neuroepidemiology. 2022 Dec 8:1-10. doi: 10.1159/000526982. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36481735.