Jalal Uddin, PhD

Education:

BA (Sociology): University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
MA (Sociology): University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
MS (Sociology and Anthropology): Iowa State University
PhD (Medical Sociology): University of Alabama at Birmingham
PDF (Epidemiology): University of Alabama at Birmingham
PDF (Community Health and Epidemiology): 海角社区app University

Teaching:

: Canadian Healthcare System
: Epidemiology for Managers
: Analyzing the Outcomes of Healthcare
: Statistics for Health Administration
: Epidemiology and Population Health
: Interprofessional Health Education (IPHE)

Biography:

Dr. Jalal Uddin is a medical sociologist and social epidemiologist whose research examines how social and structural inequalities across the life course shape health, healthcare utilization, and healthy aging. Integrating social epidemiology, medical sociology, and health services research, his work generates policy-relevant evidence to advance health equity and improve population health.

His research focuses on three interconnected areas: (1) understanding how adverse childhood experiences and psychosocial stressors become biologically embedded and influence chronic disease and cognitive aging; (2) examining how neighbourhood and structural conditions drive place-based health inequalities; and (3) applying intersectionality-informed quantitative methods to identify populations experiencing compounded disadvantage and inform equitable health policy and service planning. He has particular expertise in longitudinal cohort studies, survey data analysis, causal mediation, multilevel modeling, and intersectionality-based quantitative methods.

Dr. Uddin's research has been supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Killam Trusts, and Shoppers Drug Mart. He has published more than 35 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Social Science & Medicine, SSM鈥揚opulation Health, Journal of Affective Disorders, Health & Place, and Preventive Medicine.

Dr. Uddin was a CIHR and Killam Scholar at 海角社区app University and a past Fulbright Scholar at Iowa State University. In addition, he serves on the editorial board of BMC Public Health, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal.聽

Selected awards:

Presidential Plenary Award, International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (2022)
Fulbright Scholarship (2012)
Dean鈥檚 Award, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of聽Dhaka (2009)

Selected publications:

• Hasan Emran, Jasmine Mah, Jalal Uddin, Olga Theou, Mohammad Hajizadeh, Vineet Saini, Mohammad Habibullah Pulok. 鈥淔railty and Health Care Utilisation among Older Adults in Canada: Are There Any Variations by Sex, Immigration Status and Race.鈥� Quality in Ageing and Older Adults. 1-14.
• Uddin, Jalal,聽Sha Zhu, Samrachana Adhikari, Cara M. Nordberg, Carrie R. Howell, Gargya Malla, Suzanne E. Judd et al. "Age and sex differences in the association between neighborhood socioeconomic environment and incident diabetes: Results from the diabetes location, environmental attributes and disparities (LEAD) network."聽Social Science & Medicine-Population Health (2023): 101541.聽
• 鈥�Wolfe, Joseph D., Elizabeth H. Baker,聽Jalal Uddin, and Stephanie Kirkland. "Varieties of Financial Stressors and Midlife Health Problems." The Journals of Gerontology: Series B (2021).听
• Uddin, Jalal,聽Najwa Alharbi, Helal Uddin, Belal Hossain, Serra S. Hatipoglu, Leann D. Long, and April P. Carson. 鈥淧arenting Stress and Family Resilience Affect the Association of Adverse Childhood Experiences with Children鈥檚 Mental Health and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder鈥� Journal of Affective Disorders 272: 104-109

Memberships:

Canadian Association for Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR)
Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CSEB)