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Adjunct Instructor
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
- Maternal adverse childhood experiences and lifetime experiences of racial discrimination: Associations with current household hardships and intergenerational health
- Assessing and Validating a Model of Study Completion for a Prospective Cohort of Healthy Newborns
- ‘Even a smile helps’: Exploring the interactions between people experiencing homelessness and passersby in public spaces
- Local Cues Establish and Maintain Region-Specific Phenotypes of Basal Ganglia Microglia
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.