Rita Hamad, MD, PhD: All Publications

The effect of the 2009 revised U.S. guidelines for gestational weight gain on maternal and infant health: a quasi-experimental study. (BMC pregnancy and childbirth)

Unreported SARS-CoV-2 Home Testing and Test Positivity. (JAMA network open)

Effects Of The 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit On Adults' Mental Health: A Quasi-Experimental Study. (Health affairs (Project Hope))

Neighborhood disadvantage and the risk of dementia and mortality among refugees to Denmark: A quasi-experimental study. (SSM - population health)

Understanding Take-Up Of The Earned Income Tax Credit Among Californians With Low Income. (Health affairs (Project Hope))

Effects of the revised WIC food package on women's and children's health: a quasi-experimental study. (BMC pregnancy and childbirth)

Pandemic-related socioeconomic disruptions and adverse health outcomes: a cross-sectional study of female caregivers. (BMC public health)

The U.S. COVID-19 County Policy Database: a novel resource to support pandemic-related research. (BMC public health)

The association of residential racial segregation with health among U.S. children: A nationwide longitudinal study. (SSM - population health)

Evaluating the Effect of San Francisco's Paid Parental Leave Ordinance on Birth Outcomes. (International journal of environmental research and public health)

Risk of Psychiatric Disorders Among Refugee Children and Adolescents Living in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods. (JAMA pediatrics)

Impact of fruit and vegetable benefits on pregnancy outcomes among WIC participants: a natural experiment. (Translational behavioral medicine)

The long shadow of residential racial segregation: Associations between childhood residential segregation trajectories and young adult health among Black US Americans. (Health & place)

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and birth outcomes in California: a quasi-experimental study. (BMC public health)

The effect of the 2009 WIC revision on maternal and child health: A quasi-experimental study. (Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology)

School racial segregation and long-term cardiovascular health among black adults in the US: A quasi-experimental study. (PLoS medicine)

The Role of Health Care Systems in Bolstering the Social Safety Net to Address Health Inequities in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic. (JAMA)

Neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and psychiatric disorders among refugees: a population-based, quasi-experimental study in Denmark. (Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology)

School Racial Segregation and the Health of Black Children. (Pediatrics)

Characterizing the Landscape of Safety Net Programs and Policies in California during the COVID-19 Pandemic. (International journal of environmental research and public health)

Leveraging the Urgency of Economic Disparities Driven by the COVID-19 Pandemic to Strengthen the U.S. Safety Net. (NAM Perspectives)

Social and Economic Factors Related to Healthcare Delay Among Low-Income Families During COVID-19: Results from the ACCESS Observational Study. (Journal of health care for the poor and underserved)

Explaining the variance in cardiovascular disease risk factors: A comparison of demographic, socioeconomic, and genetic predictors. (Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.))

Paid Leave Policies Can Help Keep Businesses Open And Food On Workers’ Tables (Health Affairs Blog)

Racial Differences in the Association between the U.S. Earned Income Tax Credit and Birthweight. (Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health)

Paid Family Leave and Mental Health in the U.S.: A Quasi-Experimental Study of State Policies. (American journal of preventive medicine)

How does income affect mental health and health behaviours? A quasi-experimental study of the earned income tax credit. (Journal of epidemiology and community health)

Moving Upstream: The Importance of Examining Policies to Address Health Disparities. (JAMA pediatrics)

The effects of state earned income tax credits on mental health and health behaviors: A quasi-experimental study. (Social science & medicine (1982))

Short-term effects of the earned income tax credit on children's physical and mental health. (Annals of epidemiology)

The Revised WIC Food Package and Child Development: A Quasi-Experimental Study. (Pediatrics)

Association of US state policy orientation with adverse birth outcomes: a longitudinal analysis. (Journal of epidemiology and community health)

Natural and Unnatural Experiments in Epidemiology. (Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.))

Association of Neighborhood Disadvantage With Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Events Among Refugees in Denmark. (JAMA network open)

Short-term effects of the earned income tax credit on mental health and health behaviors. (Preventive medicine)

Geographic and Longitudinal Trends in Media Framing of Obesity in the United States. (Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.))

Association of Low Socioeconomic Status With Premature Coronary Heart Disease in US Adults. (JAMA cardiology)

Neighborhood Deprivation and Mental Health Among Immigrants to Sweden. (Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.))

The effect of California's paid family leave policy on parent health: A quasi-experimental study. (Social science & medicine (1982))

Cross-sectional analysis of place-based and racial disparities in hospitalisation rates by disease category in California in 2001 and 2011. (BMJ open)

The short-term effects of the earned income tax credit on health care expenditures among US adults. (Health services research)

Disentangling the Effects of Socioeconomic Factors on Outcomes Among Patients With Heart Failure. (JACC. Heart failure)

Identifying Novel Predictors of State Legislative Action to Address Obesity. (Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP)

The Impact of the Revised WIC Food Package on Maternal Nutrition During Pregnancy and Postpartum. (American journal of epidemiology)

Association of Revised WIC Food Package With Perinatal and Birth Outcomes: A Quasi-Experimental Study. (JAMA pediatrics)

Educational attainment and cardiovascular disease in the United States: A quasi-experimental instrumental variables analysis. (PLoS medicine)

Quality and quantity: The association of state-level educational policies with later life cardiovascular disease. (Preventive medicine)

Differential associations between state-level educational quality and cardiovascular health by race: Early-life exposures and late-life health. (SSM - population health)

The association of county-level socioeconomic factors with individual tobacco and alcohol use: a longitudinal study of U.S. adults. (BMC public health)

Comparing demographic and health characteristics of new and existing SNAP recipients: application of a machine learning algorithm. (The American journal of clinical nutrition)

Estimating the Short-Term Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Child Health. (American journal of epidemiology)

Paid Family Leave Effects on Breastfeeding: A Quasi-Experimental Study of US Policies. (American journal of public health)

Mother's education and late-life disparities in memory and dementia risk among US military veterans and non-veterans. (Journal of epidemiology and community health)

How and why studies disagree about the effects of education on health: A systematic review and meta-analysis of studies of compulsory schooling laws. (Social science & medicine (1982))

Causal Thinking as a Critical Tool for Eliminating Social Inequalities in Health. (American journal of public health)

Consolidated state political party control and the enactment of obesity-related policies in the United States. (Preventive medicine)

Predicting later life health status and mortality using state-level socioeconomic characteristics in early life. (SSM - population health)

Racial and Socioeconomic Variation in Genetic Markers of Telomere Length: A Cross-Sectional Study of U.S. Older Adults. (EBioMedicine)

Telomere length and health outcomes: A two-sample genetic instrumental variables analysis. (Experimental gerontology)

Changing national guidelines is not enough: the impact of 1990 IOM recommendations on gestational weight gain among US women. (International journal of obesity (2005))

Long-term effects of neighbourhood deprivation on diabetes risk: quasi-experimental evidence from a refugee dispersal policy in Sweden. (The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology)

Hamad and Rehkopf Respond to "Income and Health: Financial Credits as Instruments". (American journal of epidemiology)

Poverty and Child Development: A Longitudinal Study of the Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit. (American journal of epidemiology)

The EARN-Health Trial: protocol for a randomised controlled trial to identify health effects of a financial savings programme among low-income US adults. (BMJ open)

The Effects of Job Insecurity on Health Care Utilization: Findings from a Panel of U.S. Workers. (Health services research)

Microcredit participation and women's health: results from a cross-sectional study in Peru. (International journal for equity in health)

Poverty, Pregnancy, and Birth Outcomes: A Study of the Earned Income Tax Credit. (Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology)

Using "big data" to capture overall health status: properties and predictive value of a claims-based health risk score. (PloS one)

Psychological well-being during the great recession: changes in mental health care utilization in an occupational cohort. (American journal of public health)

Large-scale automated analysis of news media: a novel computational method for obesity policy research. (Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.))

Microcredit participation and child health: results from a cross-sectional study in Peru. (Journal of epidemiology and community health)

Health education for microcredit clients in Peru: a randomized controlled trial. (BMC public health)

Microcredit participation and nutrition outcomes among women in Peru. (Journal of epidemiology and community health)

Small individual loans and mental health: a randomized controlled trial among South African adults. (BMC public health)

Social and economic correlates of depressive symptoms and perceived stress in South African adults. (Journal of epidemiology and community health)