Dr. Edmond Shenassa

Dr. Edmond D. Shenassa, Sc.D., MA was recruited from Brown University in 2008 to become the founding director of the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) program in the Department of Family Science. With a dual doctorate in Epidemiology and MCH from Harvard School of Public Health and a master’s in quantitative research methods from UCLA, Dr. Shenassa’s population-based investigations focus on social determinants (e.g., income inequality, housing quality) of health over the life course.