PhD, Health Policy
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
MS, Chemistry
Washington State University
BSc, Pharmacy (Distinction with Honors)
Minia University
Mustafa Hussein is an Assistant Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the CUNY SPH, and a faculty affiliate with the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, the Institute for Research on Poverty at UW-Madison, and the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University. Hussein’s research focuses on the policy and institutional drivers of health inequalities in the healthcare system and labor markets as well as on the contextual and psycho-biological mechanisms that link public policy and institutions to health. Leveraging large datasets in the US and cross-nationally, this work seeks to uncover the key pathways in which these drivers determine the level and social distribution of health in society and to identify targets for interventions to improve health for all. As part of ISPH, Hussein’s research seeks to inform implementation of public health interventions and appraisal of their health-economic value from both efficiency and equity standpoints.