Magdalena Cerda

Magdalena Cerdá is a Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, in the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Her research focuses primarily on two great challenges to improving population health and health equity: substance use and violence.  Specifically, her work addresses: (1) the social and policy determinants of substance use from childhood to adulthood; and (2) the causes, consequences, and prevention of violence. In her most recent work, she has applied methods from epidemiology, statistics, econometrics, and computer science to answer important questions about the impact that interventions at the local, city, state, and national level can have on overdose and violence.

 

Dr. Cerdá has served on multiple scientific advisory boards and professional societies, including a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Advisory Committee and the Society for Epidemiologic Research Executive Board. Currently, she chairs an Expert Review Group for the National Academy of Medicine Opioid Collaborative. Dr. Cerdá also serves as a Senior Editor of the International Journal of Drug Policy. Dr. Cerdá has been an active member of IAPHS since its inception, and has served on the Program Committee.

 

Dr. Cerdá obtained her doctorate from the Harvard University School of Public Health in 2006, and is a former Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar. Prior to her current position at NYU, Dr. Cerdá was an Assistant Professor at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and Associate Professor at the University of California at Davis School of Medicine.