SocSEM Speaker: Anjum Hajat

About this event

Dr. Hajat is an associate professor of epidemiology and a social and environmental epidemiologist. Her research examines how stressors in the social and physical environment disproportionately impact the health of disadvantaged populations.

She has an interest in applying causal inference methods to her research and works to engage communities to answer questions that are most important to them. She is a faculty affiliate at the Center for Studies on Demography and Ecology, the West Coast Poverty Center, the Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics, and Environment, and the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies. Prior to academia she worked in public health practice for several years.