Zachary Fusfeld, PhD, MPH

Lecturer

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Contact

901 Walnut Street, 10th Floor
Philadelphia , PA 19107

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Zachary Fusfeld, PhD, MPH

Lecturer

Research & Practice Interests

Material Hardships as Determinants of Health
Housing as a Determinant of Health & Health Equity
Social/Life-course Epidemiology
Intersectional Epidemiology

Education

PhD, Drexel University
MPH, Jefferson College of Population Health 

Publications

Additional Publications

Fusfeld Z. (2022), Statistical inference via data science: A modern dive into R and the Tidyverse, Ismay, Chester and Kim, Albert Y. Boca Raton, FL: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2019. pp. 460. Biometrics, 78: 410-412. https://doi.org/10.1111/biom.13620

Teaching

Foundations of Public Health

Biography

Dr. Zachary Fusfeld is an epidemiologist and post-doctoral fellow in the Center for Cancer Health Equity at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center, and an adjunct lecturer in the College of Population Health. He holds a doctorate in epidemiology from Drexel University, an MPH from Thomas Jefferson University, and a dual bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience and Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Fusfeld’s primary research interests include social, life-course, and intersectional epidemiology, housing and other material conditions as determinants of health and health equity, and applied causal inference. Secondary interests include critical geography and applied GIS, psychiatric epidemiology, and pediatric/perinatal epidemiology.