Danielle Ompad
Danielle C. Ompad is the Associate Director of the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies (CUES) at the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr Ompad completed a B.S. in Biology at Bowie State University, one of the oldest Historically Black Colleges/Universities in the U.S. She then completed an M.H.S. and Ph.D. in infectious disease epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.
Dr. Ompad has extensive experience in design, conduct and analysis of community-based studies focusing on illicit substance use, risky sexual behavior, and access to vaccines in urban populations. At CUES, she is primarily responsible for the supervision of the research storefront and roving recruitment vehicle. She has several studies related to urban health that are funded by the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse. She is currently supervising the IMPACT Studies which are investigating the relation between HIV risk, substance use, mental health and the neighborhood physical and social environments in 38 economically disadvantaged neighborhoods in NYC. She has another study aimed at developing a scale to measure the urban and physical environments in urban neighborhoods. She is also working to understand knowledge, attitudes and beliefs related to the HPV vaccine among African American and Hispanic women in Harlem.
Dr. Ompad was a member of the Synergy Circle of the Knowledge Network on Urban Settings, a network created by WHO’s Commission on Social Determinants of Health to consider the role of urbanization in health outcomes. She has also been a consultant to the WHO and PAHO on urban health issues. She has recently been involved in the Healthy Urbanization Project being directed by the WHO’s Center for Health Development in Kobe, Japan. Working with faculty at Soochow University in Suzhou (China) and colleagues at the WHO she developed a short course on urban health equity.
Dr. Ompad is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
Contact information: (212) 419-3589, dompad@nyam.org
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