Public Health and Policy Seminar: The Health Effects of Economic Change: National Policies and Local Mechanisms
12:00pm - 1:00pm /
Tuesday 27th September 2016
/ Venue: Public Health Foyer, 3rd Floor Whelan Building
Type: Seminar /
Category: Department
- 01517955457
- Dr Maria Guzman Castillo
- Admission: Free
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Usama Bilal, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
A consistent yet paradoxical association between decreases in unemployment and increases in mortality has been found in many studies over the last several decades. This represents a clear example of Geoffrey Rose’s dialectical view of causality: individual causes of cases and population determinants of incidence need not be the same. Two aspects of this association may help uncover the social mechanisms behind this paradox. First, are there policy buffers or amplifiers that may provide mechanistic or interventional insights? Second, can we find evidence of this association in local environments?
Usama Bilal, MD MPH, is a doctoral candidate in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His overarching research interest is on how macrosocial change affects cardiovascular diseases in populations. Among the consequences of macrosocial change are alterations of the local food environment and the effect that urban planning has in its distribution in urban neighbourhoods. More specifically, his thesis research revolves around the idea that neighbourhood economic change fundamentally alters the local food environment and diet. He received his MD degree from the University of Oviedo, in Spain, and his Masters in Public Health from the National School of Public Health/University of Alcala, in Spain. He is also an alumni of the Santa Fe Complex Systems Summer School.
A consistent yet paradoxical association between decreases in unemployment and increases in mortality has been found in many studies over the last several decades. This represents a clear example of Geoffrey Rose’s dialectical view of causality: individual causes of cases and population determinants of incidence need not be the same. Two aspects of this association may help uncover the social mechanisms behind this paradox. First, are there policy buffers or amplifiers that may provide mechanistic or interventional insights? Second, can we find evidence of this association in local environments?
Usama Bilal, MD MPH, is a doctoral candidate in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His overarching research interest is on how macrosocial change affects cardiovascular diseases in populations. Among the consequences of macrosocial change are alterations of the local food environment and the effect that urban planning has in its distribution in urban neighbourhoods. More specifically, his thesis research revolves around the idea that neighbourhood economic change fundamentally alters the local food environment and diet. He received his MD degree from the University of Oviedo, in Spain, and his Masters in Public Health from the National School of Public Health/University of Alcala, in Spain. He is also an alumni of the Santa Fe Complex Systems Summer School.