Select Grants & Fellowships
University of California, President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, “The Effects of Place-Based Mechanisms of Structural Racism on Racial Inequities in Pregnancy-Related Outcomes and Infant Health” 2023-2025, $145,000
NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, F31 Award F31HD106772. “Impact of historical redlining and contemporary gentrification on severe maternal morbidity racial/ethnic disparities.” 2021-2023, $83,986
Select Publications
Theme: Interdisciplinary, theory-informed conceptualization of structural drivers, place, and racial health equity
Gao X, Berkowitz RL, Michaels EK, Mujahid MS. Traveling Together: A Roadmap for Researching Neighborhood Effects on Population Health and Health Inequities. Am J Epidemiol. 2023 doi:10.1093/aje/kwad129
Berkowitz RL, Gao X, Michaels EK, Mujahid MS. Structurally Vulnerable Neighbourhood Environments and Racial/Ethnic COVID-19 Inequities. Cities & Health. 2021 doi: 10.1080/23748834.2020.1792069
Theme: Place effect research throug racial equity and environmental justice lenses
Gao X, Kershaw AN, Barber S, Schreiner PJ, Do DP, Diez Roux AV, Mujahid MS. Associations between Residential Segregation and Incident Hypertension: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. JAHA. 2022 doi: 10.1161/JAHA.121.023084
Gao X, Engeda J, Moore LV, Auchincloss A, Moore K, Mujahid MS. Longitudinal Associations between Objective and Perceived Healthy Food Environment and Diet: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Social Science & Medicine. 2022 doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114542
Theme: Place-based sociopolitical mechanisms and their implications for health and well-being
Gao X, Snowden JM, Tucker CM, Allen A, Morello-Frosch R, Abrams B, Carmichael SL, Mujahid MS. Remapping Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Severe Maternal Morbidity: The Legacy of Redlining in California. Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology. 2023 [Top Cited Article 2022-2023] doi:10.1111/ppe.12935
Gao X, Thomas TA, Morello-Frosch R, Allen AM, Snowden JM, Carmichael SL, Mujahid MS. Neighborhood Gentrification, Displacement, and Severe Maternal Morbidity in California. Social Science & Medicine. 2023 doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116196
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