Magdalena Cerda
Magdalena Cerdá is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. Her research focuses on lifecourse influences on substance use onset and continuity, the emergence of new drivers and forms of substance use, and the neighborhood causes and mental health consequences of violence. Dr. Cerdá has more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals, in addition to three chapters in major textbooks. She is the recipient of a NIDA K01 Award entitled “Trajectories of Substance Use and Comorbid Mental Illness.” Recent studies include an investigation of urban-rural differences in nonmedical prescription opioid abuse across California, and a simulation of the potential impact that investment in access to individualized treatment versus investment in neighborhood-level preventive interventions could have on the rates of mental illness in New York City.