Mahasin S Mujahid
Biographic Data
| ID | 112650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mahasin S Mujahid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mahasin S |
| FAMILY NAME | Mujahid |
| SIGNATURE | MUJAHID M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9795-9338 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Community violence intervention
Community Violence Intervention (CVI) involves recruiting likely gun violence offenders using street outreach and offering mentorship, social services and other supports to discourage future firearm violence. Grounded in public health, CVI interventions identify an individual’s risk factors and work to enhance protective and buffering factors that can help prevent a client from offending. This paper reviews evaluations of CVI interventions to und…
Can Birth Hospital Explain Racial/Ethnic Differences in Cesarean Birth Among Low-Risk Births? An Analysis of California Data, 2007–2018
Comparative Measurements
Impact of increasing workforce racial diversity on black-white disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality
BACKGROUND: Structural racism's influence on workforce policies and practices presents possible upstream targets for assessing and reducing racial health disparities. This study is the first to examine workforce racial diversity in association with racial disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study of 39 693 hourly autoworkers from three Michigan automobile plants, includes 75 years of follow-up …
Structural racism and perinatal mental health - The role of racialized economic segregation
Assessing the relationship between census tract rurality and severe maternal morbidity in California (1997‐2018)
PURPOSE: Recent studies have demonstrated an increased risk of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) for people living in rural versus urban counties. Studies have not considered rurality at the more nuanced subcounty census-tract level. This study assessed the relationship between census-tract-level rurality and SMM for birthing people in California. METHODS: We used linked vital statistics and hospital discharge records for births between 1997 and 20…
The Influence of Gentrification on Adverse Birth Outcomes in California
Evidence has documented the effects of place on perinatal outcomes, but less is known about the sociopolitical mechanisms, such as gentrification, that shape neighborhood context and produce spatialized inequities in adverse birth outcomes. Leveraging a diverse sample in California, we assessed the associations between gentrification and birth outcomes: preterm birth, small-for-gestational-age, and low birth weight. Gentrification was measured us…
Associations between historical and contemporary measures of structural racism and leukocyte telomere length
Neighborhood gentrification, displacement, and severe maternal morbidity in California
Gentrification, a racialized and profit-driven process in which historically disinvested neighborhoods experience an influx of development that contributes to the improvement of physical amenities, increasing housing costs, and the dispossession and displacement of existing communities, may influence the risk of severe maternal morbidity (SMM). Leveraging a racially diverse population-based sample of all live hospital births in California between…
Structural racism and adverse maternal health outcomes
Protective Places
Black women have the highest incidence of preterm birth (PTB). Upstream factors, including neighborhood context, may be key drivers of this increased risk. This study assessed the relationship between neighborhood quality, defined by the Healthy Places Index, and PTB among Black women who lived in Oakland, California, and gave birth between 2007 and 2011 (N = 5418 women, N = 107 census tracts). We found that, compared with those living in lower q…
Neighborhood Racial and Economic Privilege and Timing of Pubertal Onset in Girls
Longitudinal associations between objective and perceived healthy food environment and diet
Our findings suggest that neighborhood-level food environment is associated with better diet quality, especially among racially/ethnically minoritized populations
Ways Forward in Preventing Severe Maternal Morbidity and Maternal Health Inequities
Are neighbourhood restaurants related to frequency of restaurant meals and dietary quality? Prevalence and changes over time in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
Objective: To examine whether the density of neighbourhood restaurants affected the frequency of eating restaurant meals and subsequently affected diet quality. Design: Cross-sectional and longitudinal designs. Structural equation models assessed the indirect relationship between restaurant density (≤3 miles (4·8 km) of participant addresses) and dietary quality (Healthy Eating Index 2010 (HEI)) via the frequency of eating restaurant meals, after…
Associations between historical residential redlining and current age-adjusted rates of emergency department visits due to asthma across eight cities in California
Background Asthma disproportionately affects communities of colour in the USA, but the underlying factors for this remain poorly understood. In this study, we assess the role of historical redlining as outlined in security maps created by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC), the discriminatory practice of categorising neighbourhoods on the basis of perceived mortgage investment risk, on the burden of asthma in these neighbourhoods. Methods W…
Neighborhood social environment and changes in leukocyte telomere length
Pervasive Discrimination and Allostatic Load in African American and White Adults
More pervasive discrimination was related to greater multisystemic physiological dysregulation in a cohort of African American and white adults. Measuring discrimination by combining multiple forms of discriminatory experiences may be important for studying the health effects of discrimination
Gentrification and Displacement in the San Francisco Bay Area
Gentrification may play an important role in influencing health outcomes, but few studies have examined these associations. One major barrier to producing empirical evidence to establish this link is that there is little consensus on how to measure gentrification. To address this barrier, we compared three gentrification classification methodologies in relation to their ability to identify neighborhood gentrification in nine San Francisco Bay Are…
Towards a People’s Social Epidemiology
Social epidemiology has made critical contributions to understanding population health. However, translation of social epidemiology science into action remains a challenge, raising concerns about the impacts of the field beyond academia. With so much focus on issues related to social position, discrimination, racism, power, and privilege, there has been surprisingly little deliberation about the extent and value of social inclusion and equity wit…
Clear action requires clear thinking”
Understanding Embodiment in Place-Health Research
The body language of place
Research on place and health has grown rapidly in recent years, including examining the physiological embodiment of place-based exposures. While this research continues to improve understanding of why place matters, there is particular need for work capable of revealing: 1) which places matter, i.e. spatially-specific notions of "place"); 2) how these places matter-processes and mechanisms of the physiological embodiment of place; and 3) potentia…
Health in changing neighborhoods
Associations between cumulative neighborhood deprivation, long-term mobility trajectories, and gestational weight gain
Pervasive Discrimination and Allostatic Load in African American and White Adults
More pervasive discrimination was related to greater multisystemic physiological dysregulation in a cohort of African American and white adults. Measuring discrimination by combining multiple forms of discriminatory experiences may be important for studying the health effects of discrimination
Health in changing neighborhoods
The Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and Individual Socioeconomic Factors on Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis
Objectives. Previous research has generally found that racial/ethnic differences in breast cancer stage at diagnosis attenuate when measures of socioeconomic status are included in the analysis, although most previous research measured socioeconomic status at the contextual level. This study investigated the relation between race/ethnicity, individual socioeconomic status, and breast cancer stage at diagnosis. Methods. Women with stage 0 to III b…
The body language of place
Research on place and health has grown rapidly in recent years, including examining the physiological embodiment of place-based exposures. While this research continues to improve understanding of why place matters, there is particular need for work capable of revealing: 1) which places matter, i.e. spatially-specific notions of "place"); 2) how these places matter-processes and mechanisms of the physiological embodiment of place; and 3) potentia…
Home and work neighbourhood environments in relation to body mass index
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the neighbourhood characteristics of workplaces, the extent to which they are independently and synergistically correlated with residential environments, and their impact on health. METHODS: This study investigated cross-sectional relationships between home and workplace neighbourhood environments with body mass index (BMI) in 1503 working participants of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis with mean age 59…
Neighborhoods and racial/ethnic differences in ideal cardiovascular health (the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis)
Race, Law, and Health Disparities
In response to persistent and pervasive differences in health across racial and ethnic groups in the United States, there is a national commitment to achieving health equity, or optimal levels of health for all. Achieving health equity and eliminating health disparities is not without its challenges and will require interventions and approaches that focus on improving opportunity structures for racial/ethnic minorities. We provide a brief overvie…
Longitudinal associations between objective and perceived healthy food environment and diet
Our findings suggest that neighborhood-level food environment is associated with better diet quality, especially among racially/ethnically minoritized populations
Associations between cumulative neighborhood deprivation, long-term mobility trajectories, and gestational weight gain
Socioeconomic position, John Henryism, and incidence of acute myocardial infarction in Finnish men
Is a reduction in distance to nearest supermarket associated with BMI change among type 2 diabetes patients
Associations of perceived neighborhood safety and crime with cardiometabolic risk factors among a population with type 2 diabetes
Little is known about how neighborhood crime may relate to health in diabetes patients. We examined associations between individuals' perceptions of neighborhood safety or violent crime and stress, physical activity, body mass index (BMI) or hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) in a sample (n=721) of adults (mean age:63) with diabetes. Self-reported neighborhood safety, violent crime, physical activity, and stress were collected and linked to clinical measures…
Protective Places
Black women have the highest incidence of preterm birth (PTB). Upstream factors, including neighborhood context, may be key drivers of this increased risk. This study assessed the relationship between neighborhood quality, defined by the Healthy Places Index, and PTB among Black women who lived in Oakland, California, and gave birth between 2007 and 2011 (N = 5418 women, N = 107 census tracts). We found that, compared with those living in lower q…
Police-Recorded Crime and Perceived Stress among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Population-based study of the relationship of treatment and sociodemographics on quality of life for early stage breast cancer
The Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and Individual Socioeconomic Factors on Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis
Objectives. Previous research has generally found that racial/ethnic differences in breast cancer stage at diagnosis attenuate when measures of socioeconomic status are included in the analysis, although most previous research measured socioeconomic status at the contextual level. This study investigated the relation between race/ethnicity, individual socioeconomic status, and breast cancer stage at diagnosis. Methods. Women with stage 0 to III b…
Assessing the Measurement Properties of Neighborhood Scales
Most studies examining the relation between residential environment and health have used census-derived measures of neighborhood socioeconomic position (SEP). There is a need to identify specific features of neighborhoods relevant to disease risk, but few measures of these features exist, and their measurement properties are understudied. In this paper, the authors 1) develop measures (scales) of neighborhood environment that are important in car…
Neighborhood Characteristics and Hypertension
BACKGROUND: : The goal of this study was to investigate cross-sectional associations between features of neighborhoods and hypertension and to examine the sensitivity of results to various methods of estimating neighborhood conditions. METHODS: : We used data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis on 2612 individuals 45-85 years of age. Hypertension was defined as systolic blood pressure above 140 mm Hg, diastolic pressure above 90 mm Hg,…
Relation between Neighborhood Environments and Obesity in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
This study investigated associations between neighborhood physical and social environments and body mass index in 2,865 participants of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) aged 45-84 years and residing in Maryland, New York, and North Carolina. Neighborhood (census tract) environments were measured in non-MESA participants residing in MESA neighborhoods (2000-2002). The neighborhood physical environment score combined measures of a b…
How Planning and Zoning Contribute to Inequitable Development, Neighborhood Health, and Environmental Injustice
In this commentary, we discuss the ways in which planning and zoning contribute to inequitable development and how this has implications for the design of neighborhoods, health and health disparities, and environmental injustice. We first discuss the history of zoning and planning in this country and their contribution to inequitable development and urban fragmentation. We then describe how the distribution of resources within and between neighbo…
Early Life Adversity and Inflammation in African Americans and Whites in the Midlife in the United States Survey
Objectives: To determine whether early life adversity (ELA) was predictive of inflammatory markers and to determine the consistency of these associations across racial groups. Methods: We analyzed data from 177 African Americans and 822 whites aged 35 to 86 years from two preliminary subsamples of the Midlife in the United States biomarker study. ELA was measured via retrospective self-report. We used multivariate linear regression models to exam…
Metropolitan-Level Racial Residential Segregation and Black-White Disparities in Hypertension
Few studies have examined geographic variation in hypertension disparities, but studies of other health outcomes indicate that racial residential segregation may help to explain these variations. The authors used data from 8,071 black and white participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999-2006) who were aged 25 years or older to investigate whether black-white hypertension disparities varied by level of metropolitan-…
Home and work neighbourhood environments in relation to body mass index
BACKGROUND: Little is known about the neighbourhood characteristics of workplaces, the extent to which they are independently and synergistically correlated with residential environments, and their impact on health. METHODS: This study investigated cross-sectional relationships between home and workplace neighbourhood environments with body mass index (BMI) in 1503 working participants of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis with mean age 59…
The impact of neighborhood social and built environment factors across the cancer continuum
Neighborhood social and built environments have been recognized as important contexts in which health is shaped. The authors reviewed the extent to which these neighborhood factors have been addressed in population‐level cancer research by scanning the literature for research focused on specific social and/or built environment characteristics and their association with outcomes across the cancer continuum, including incidence, diagnosis, treatmen…
Social Determinants of Risk and Outcomes for Cardiovascular Disease
The American Heart
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Inadequate Gestational Weight Gain Differ by Pre-pregnancy Weight
The Impact of Neighborhoods on CV Risk
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to be the leading cause of death and a major source of health disparities in the Unites States and globally. Efforts to reduce CVD risk and eliminate cardiovascular health disparities have increasingly emphasized the importance of the social determinants of health. Neighborhood environments have emerged as a possible target for prevention and policy efforts. Hence there is a need to better understand the rol…
Is a reduction in distance to nearest supermarket associated with BMI change among type 2 diabetes patients
Associations of perceived neighborhood safety and crime with cardiometabolic risk factors among a population with type 2 diabetes
Little is known about how neighborhood crime may relate to health in diabetes patients. We examined associations between individuals' perceptions of neighborhood safety or violent crime and stress, physical activity, body mass index (BMI) or hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) in a sample (n=721) of adults (mean age:63) with diabetes. Self-reported neighborhood safety, violent crime, physical activity, and stress were collected and linked to clinical measures…
Police-Recorded Crime and Perceived Stress among Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Cardiovascular Health in African Americans
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Population-wide reductions in cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality have not been shared equally by African Americans. The burden of cardiovascular disease in the African American community remains high and is a primary cause of disparities in life expectancy between African Americans and whites. The objectives of the present scientific statement are to describe cardiovascular health in African Americans and to hi…
Race, Law, and Health Disparities
In response to persistent and pervasive differences in health across racial and ethnic groups in the United States, there is a national commitment to achieving health equity, or optimal levels of health for all. Achieving health equity and eliminating health disparities is not without its challenges and will require interventions and approaches that focus on improving opportunity structures for racial/ethnic minorities. We provide a brief overvie…
Neighborhoods and racial/ethnic differences in ideal cardiovascular health (the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis)
Socioeconomic position, John Henryism, and incidence of acute myocardial infarction in Finnish men
Health in changing neighborhoods
Associations between cumulative neighborhood deprivation, long-term mobility trajectories, and gestational weight gain
Gentrification and Displacement in the San Francisco Bay Area
Gentrification may play an important role in influencing health outcomes, but few studies have examined these associations. One major barrier to producing empirical evidence to establish this link is that there is little consensus on how to measure gentrification. To address this barrier, we compared three gentrification classification methodologies in relation to their ability to identify neighborhood gentrification in nine San Francisco Bay Are…
Towards a People’s Social Epidemiology
Social epidemiology has made critical contributions to understanding population health. However, translation of social epidemiology science into action remains a challenge, raising concerns about the impacts of the field beyond academia. With so much focus on issues related to social position, discrimination, racism, power, and privilege, there has been surprisingly little deliberation about the extent and value of social inclusion and equity wit…
Clear action requires clear thinking”
Medicine (38 works) · Demography (29 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (21 works) · Demography (20 works) · Ethnic group (19 works) · Gerontology (19 works) · Environmental health (18 works) · Internal Medicine (17 works) · Population (17 works)