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2007
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  • 2012 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Mahasin S. Mujahid is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans numerous topics primarily within medicine and social sciences, focusing on public health and health disparities.

Their work often addresses health disparities and outcomes, maternal and perinatal health interventions, and maternal and fetal healthcare. Other core topics include cardiovascular health and risk factors, birth, development, and health, migration, health and trauma, as well as racial and ethnic identity research.

Mujahid's extensive publication record includes 113 works in medicine and 60 in social sciences. Their subfields of expertise cover health, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, general health professions, obstetrics and gynecology, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Frequent venues for Mujahid's publications include:

  • Circulation
  • Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
  • American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • JAMA Network Open

Coauthors often collaborating with Mujahid include Suzan L. Carmichael, Tené T. Lewis, Xing Gao, Viola Vaccarino, and Elleni M. Hailu.

Selected recent papers by Mahasin S. Mujahid include:

  • "Historical redlining and cardiovascular health: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Associations between historical residential redlining and current age-adjusted rates of emergency department visits due to asthma across eight cities in California: an ecological study," 2020, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • "Importance of Housing and Cardiovascular Health and Well-Being: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association," 2020, Circulation Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
  • "Associations between historical redlining and birth outcomes from 2006 through 2015 in California," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Structural racism and adverse maternal health outcomes: A systematic review," 2022, Health & Place

Mujahid's research often investigates the intersection of structural and social determinants of health, particularly examining how historical factors like redlining affect cardiovascular and maternal health outcomes.

In 2012, Mujahid received the Hellman Fellow award, recognizing part of their contributions in the early stages of their career.

Best Publications

  • Social Determinants of Risk and Outcomes for Cardiovascular Disease A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    Edward P. Havranek;Mahasin S. Mujahid;Donald A. Barr;Irene V. Blair

  • Cardiovascular Health in African Americans: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    Mercedes R. Carnethon;Jia Pu;George Howard;Michelle A. Albert

  • Assessing the measurement properties of neighborhood scales: from psychometrics to ecometrics

    Mahasin S. Mujahid;Ana V. Diez Roux;Jeffrey D. Morenoff;Trivellore Raghunathan

  • Health Literacy and Cardiovascular Disease: Fundamental Relevance to Primary and Secondary Prevention: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

    Jared W. Magnani;Mahasin S. Mujahid;Herbert D. Aronow;Crystal W. Cené

  • Neighborhood characteristics and hypertension.

    Mahasin S. Mujahid;Ana V. Diez Roux;Jeffrey D. Morenoff;Trivellore E. Raghunathan

  • The impact of neighborhood social and built environment factors across the cancer continuum: Current research, methodological considerations, and future directions.

    Scarlett Lin Gomez;Scarlett Lin Gomez;Salma Shariff‐Marco;Salma Shariff‐Marco;Mindy DeRouen;Theresa H. M. Keegan;Theresa H. M. Keegan

  • Neighborhood resources for physical activity and healthy foods and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus: the Multi-Ethnic study of Atherosclerosis.

    Amy H. Auchincloss;Ana V. Diez Roux;Mahasin S. Mujahid;Mingwu Shen

  • Associations between historical residential redlining and current age-adjusted rates of emergency department visits due to asthma across eight cities in California: an ecological study.

    Anthony Nardone;Joan A Casey;Joan A Casey;Rachel Morello-Frosch;Mahasin Mujahid

  • Symptom Experience and Quality of Life of Women Following Breast Cancer Treatment

    Nancy K. Janz;Mahasin S. Mujahid;Lynna K. Chung;Paula M. Lantz

  • Relation between Neighborhood Environments and Obesity in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

    Mahasin S. Mujahid;Ana V. Diez Roux;Mingwu Shen;Deepthiman Gowda

  • The Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and Individual Socioeconomic Factors on Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis

    Paula M. Lantz;Mahasin Mujahid;Kendra Schwartz;Nancy K. Janz

  • Population-based study of the relationship of treatment and sociodemographics on quality of life for early stage breast cancer.

    Nancy K. Janz;Mahasin Mujahid;Paula M. Lantz;Angela Fagerlin;Angela Fagerlin

  • How Planning and Zoning Contribute to Inequitable Development, Neighborhood Health, and Environmental Injustice

    Sacoby Wilson;Malo Hutson;Mahasin Mujahid

  • Early Life Adversity and Inflammation in African Americans and Whites in the Midlife in the United States Survey

    Natalie Slopen;Tené T. Lewis;Tara L. Gruenewald;Mahasin S. Mujahid

  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Postmastectomy Breast Reconstruction: Results From a Population-Based Study

    Amy K. Alderman;Sarah T. Hawley;Nancy K. Janz;Mahasin S. Mujahid

  • The Impact of Neighborhoods on CV Risk.

    Ana V. Diez Roux;Mahasin S. Mujahid;Jana A. Hirsch;Kari Moore

  • The accuracy of self-reported pregnancy-related weight: a systematic review.

    I. Headen;A.K. Cohen;M. Mujahid;B. Abrams

  • Historical redlining and cardiovascular health: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

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  • NEIGHBORHOOD STRESSORS AND RACE/ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN HYPERTENSION PREVALENCE (THE MULTI-ETHNIC STUDY OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS)

    Mahasin S. Mujahid;Ana V. Diez Roux;Richard C. Cooper;Steven Shea

  • Racial/ethnic differences in quality of life after diagnosis of breast cancer

    Nancy K. Janz;Mahasin S. Mujahid;Sarah T. Hawley;Jennifer J. Griggs

  • Metropolitan-Level Racial Residential Segregation and Black-White Disparities in Hypertension

    Kiarri N. Kershaw;Ana V. Diez Roux;Sarah A. Burgard;Lynda D. Lisabeth

  • Neighborhood Resources for Physical Activity and Healthy Foods and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

    Amy H. Auchincloss;Ana Diez Roux;Mahasin Mujahid;Mingwu Shen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ana V. Diez Roux
Ana V. Diez Roux Drexel University
Tené T. Lewis
Tené T. Lewis Emory University
Viola Vaccarino
Viola Vaccarino Emory University
Angela Fagerlin
Angela Fagerlin University of Utah
Monica Morrow
Monica Morrow Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Rachel Morello-Frosch
Rachel Morello-Frosch University of California, Berkeley
Irene H. Yen
Irene H. Yen University of California, Merced
Rosa M. Crum
Rosa M. Crum Johns Hopkins University
Nancy E. Adler
Nancy E. Adler University of California, San Francisco

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