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Salma Abdalla, MBBS, MPH

Research Fellow

Boston University School of Public Health

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Abdalla SM, Hernandez M, Fazaludeen Koya S, Rosenberg SB, Robbins G, Magana L, Nsoesie EO, Sabin L, Galea S. What matters for health? Public views from eight countries. BMJ Glob Health. 2022 Jun; 7(6).View Related Profiles.

Nsoesie, Elaine
Sabin, Lora
Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro
Fazaludeen Koya, Muhammed Shaffi

PMID: 35705225

Abdalla SM, Galea S. Towards a better understanding of disparities in overdose mortality. Am J Epidemiol. 2022 Mar 17.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 35301520

Ettman CK, Cohen GH, Abdalla SM, Trinquart L, Castrucci BC, Bork RH, Clark MA, Wilson IB, Vivier PM, Galea S. Assets, stressors, and symptoms of persistent depression over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sci Adv. 2022 Mar 04; 8(9):eabm9737.View Related Profiles.

Cohen, Gregory
Trinquart, Ludovic
Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 35235345; PMCID: PMC8890702; DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abm9737;

Jung AS, Haldane V, Neill R, Wu S, Jamieson M, Verma M, Tan M, De Foo C, Abdalla SM, Shrestha P, Chua AQ, Bristol N, Singh S, Bartos M, Mabuchi S, Bonk M, McNab C, Werner GK, Panjabi R, Nordström A, Legido-Quigley H. National responses to covid-19: drivers, complexities, and uncertainties in the first year of the pandemic. BMJ. 2021 11 28; 375:e068954. PMID: 34840138; PMCID: PMC8624066; DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-068954;

Singh S, Bartos M, Abdalla S, Legido-Quigley H, Nordström A, Sirleaf EJ, Clark H. Resetting international systems for pandemic preparedness and response. BMJ. 2021 11 28; 375:e067518. PMID: 34840131; PMCID: PMC8624054; DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067518;

Haldane V, Jung AS, De Foo C, Bonk M, Jamieson M, Wu S, Verma M, Abdalla SM, Singh S, Nordström A, Legido-Quigley H. Strengthening the basics: public health responses to prevent the next pandemic. BMJ. 2021 11 28; 375:e067510. PMID: 34840134; PMCID: PMC8624065; DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067510;

Tan MMJ, Neill R, Haldane V, Jung AS, De Foo C, Tan SM, Shrestha P, Verma M, Bonk M, Abdalla SM, Legido-Quigley H. Assessing the role of qualitative factors in pandemic responses. BMJ. 2021 11 28; 375:e067512. PMID: 34840137; PMCID: PMC8624757; DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067512;

Jung AS, Haldane V, Neill R, Mei Jin Tan M, Abdalla SM, Bartos M, Shresha P, Chua AQ, Nordström A, Legido-Quigley H. From dichotomisation towards intersectionality in addressing covid-19. BMJ. 2021 11 28; 375:e067500. PMID: 34840132; PMCID: PMC8624761; DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067500;

Abdalla SM, Koya SF, Jamieson M, Verma M, Haldane V, Jung AS, Singh S, Nordström A, Obaid T, Legido-Quigley H, McNab C. Investing in trust and community resilience: lessons from the early months of the first digital pandemic. BMJ. 2021 11 28; 375:e067487.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Fazaludeen Koya, Muhammed Shaffi

PMID: 34840130; PMCID: PMC8624756; DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067487;

Wu S, Neill R, De Foo C, Chua AQ, Jung AS, Haldane V, Abdalla SM, Guan WJ, Singh S, Nordström A, Legido-Quigley H. Aggressive containment, suppression, and mitigation of covid-19: lessons learnt from eight countries. BMJ. 2021 11 28; 375:e067508. PMID: 34840136; PMCID: PMC8624062; DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067508;

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Haldane V, Jung AS, Neill R, Singh S, Wu S, Jamieson M, Verma M, Tan M, De Foo C, Abdalla SM, Shrestha P, Chua AQ, Nordström A, Legido-Quigley H. From response to transformation: how countries can strengthen national pandemic preparedness and response systems. BMJ. 2021 11 28; 375:e067507. PMID: 34840139; PMCID: PMC8624064; DOI: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067507;

Abdalla SM, Cohen GH, Tamrakar S, Koya SF, Galea S. Media Exposure and the Risk of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Following a Mass traumatic Event: An In-silico Experiment. Front Psychiatry. 2021; 12:674263.View Related Profiles.

Cohen, Gregory
Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro
Fazaludeen Koya, Muhammed Shaffi

PMID: 34899406; PMCID: PMC8656276; DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.674263;

Singh S, McNab C, Olson RM, Bristol N, Nolan C, Bergstrøm E, Bartos M, Mabuchi S, Panjabi R, Karan A, Abdalla SM, Bonk M, Jamieson M, Werner GK, Nordström A, Legido-Quigley H, Phelan A. How an outbreak became a pandemic: a chronological analysis of crucial junctures and international obligations in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lancet. 2021 12 04; 398(10316):2109-2124. PMID: 34762857; PMCID: PMC8575464; DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01897-3;

Ettman CK, Cohen GH, Abdalla SM, Sampson L, Trinquart L, Castrucci BC, Bork RH, Clark MA, Wilson I, Vivier PM, Galea S. Persistent depressive symptoms during COVID-19: a national, population-representative, longitudinal study of U.S. adults. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2022 Jan; 5:100091.View Related Profiles.

Cohen, Gregory
Trinquart, Ludovic
Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 34635882; PMCID: PMC8488314; DOI: 10.1016/j.lana.2021.100091;

Mwoka M, Biermann O, Ettman CK, Abdalla SM, Ambuko J, Pearson M, Rashid SF, Zeinali Z, Galea S, Valladares LM, Mberu B. Housing as a Social Determinant of Health: Evidence from Singapore, the UK, and Kenya: the 3-D Commission. J Urban Health. 2021 08; 98(Suppl 1):15-30.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 34480327; PMCID: PMC8415197; DOI: 10.1007/s11524-021-00557-8;

Martins DC, Babajide O, Maani N, Abdalla SM, Gómez EJ, Pongsiri MJ, Tlou S, Leung GM, Benjamin GC, Goosby E, Dain K, Vega J, Zeinali Z, Stoeva P, Galea S, Sturchio J, Twum-Danso NAY. Integrating Social Determinants in Decision-Making Processes for Health: Insights from Conceptual Frameworks-the 3-D Commission. J Urban Health. 2021 08; 98(Suppl 1):51-59.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 34480328; PMCID: PMC8415431; DOI: 10.1007/s11524-021-00560-z;

Torres I, Thapa B, Robbins G, Koya SF, Abdalla SM, Arah OA, Weeks WB, Zhang L, Asma S, Morales JV, Galea S, Larson HJ, Rhee K. Data Sources for Understanding the Social Determinants of Health: Examples from Two Middle-Income Countries: the 3-D Commission. J Urban Health. 2021 08; 98(Suppl 1):31-40.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro
Fazaludeen Koya, Muhammed Shaffi

PMID: 34472014; PMCID: PMC8409472; DOI: 10.1007/s11524-021-00558-7;

Babajide O, Martins DC, Maani N, Abdalla SM, Gómez EJ, Pongsiri MJ, Tlou S, Leung GM, Benjamin GC, Goosby E, Dain K, Vega J, Zeinali Z, Galea S, Sturchio J, Twum-Danso NAY. Improving Decision-Making for Population Health in Nonhealth Sectors in Urban Environments: the Example of the Transportation Sector in Three Megacities-the 3-D Commission. J Urban Health. 2021 08; 98(Suppl 1):60-68.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 34435262; PMCID: PMC8440744; DOI: 10.1007/s11524-021-00561-y;

Biermann O, Mwoka M, Ettman CK, Abdalla SM, Shawky S, Ambuko J, Pearson M, Zeinali Z, Galea S, Mberu B, Valladares LM. Data, Social Determinants, and Better Decision-making for Health: the 3-D Commission. J Urban Health. 2021 08; 98(Suppl 1):4-14.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 34414512; PMCID: PMC8376119; DOI: 10.1007/s11524-021-00556-9;

Biermann O, Koya SF, Corkish C, Abdalla SM, Galea S. Food, Big Data, and Decision-making: a Scoping Review-the 3-D Commission. J Urban Health. 2021 08; 98(Suppl 1):69-78.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro
Fazaludeen Koya, Muhammed Shaffi

PMID: 34414511; PMCID: PMC8440752; DOI: 10.1007/s11524-021-00562-x;

Abdalla SM, Galea S. The 3-D Commission: Forging a Transdisciplinary Synthesis at the Intersection of Social Determinants of Health, Data, and Decision-making. J Urban Health. 2021 08; 98(Suppl 1):1-3.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 34414513; PMCID: PMC8440695; DOI: 10.1007/s11524-021-00555-w;

Thapa B, Torres I, Koya SF, Robbins G, Abdalla SM, Arah OA, Weeks WB, Zhang L, Asma S, Morales JV, Galea S, Rhee K, Larson HJ. Use of Data to Understand the Social Determinants of Depression in Two Middle-Income Countries: the 3-D Commission. J Urban Health. 2021 08; 98(Suppl 1):41-50.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro
Fazaludeen Koya, Muhammed Shaffi

PMID: 34409557; PMCID: PMC8373292; DOI: 10.1007/s11524-021-00559-6;

Abdalla SM, Ettman CK, Cohen GH, Galea S. Mental health consequences of COVID-19: a nationally representative cross-sectional study of pandemic-related stressors and anxiety disorders in the USA. BMJ Open. 2021 08 09; 11(8):e044125.View Related Profiles.

Cohen, Gregory
Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 34373289; PMCID: PMC8354762; DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044125;

Maani N, Robbins G, Koya SF, Babajide O, Abdalla SM, Galea S. Energy, Data, and Decision-Making: a Scoping Review-the 3D Commission. J Urban Health. 2021 08; 98(Suppl 1):79-88.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro
Fazaludeen Koya, Muhammed Shaffi

PMID: 34374032; PMCID: PMC8440708; DOI: 10.1007/s11524-021-00563-w;

Galea S, Ettman CK, Maani N, Abdalla SM. Taking the Long View: COVID-19 Priorities for the Biden Administration. J Health Polit Policy Law. 2021 08 01; 46(4):577-584.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 33493275

Haldane V, De Foo C, Abdalla SM, Jung AS, Tan M, Wu S, Chua A, Verma M, Shrestha P, Singh S, Perez T, Tan SM, Bartos M, Mabuchi S, Bonk M, McNab C, Werner GK, Panjabi R, Nordström A, Legido-Quigley H. Health systems resilience in managing the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from 28 countries. Nat Med. 2021 06; 27(6):964-980. PMID: 34002090

Maani N, Abdalla SM, Galea S. Avoiding a legacy of unequal non-communicable disease burden after the COVID-19 pandemic. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2021 03; 9(3):133-135.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 33549161

Abdalla SM, Yu S, Galea S. Trends of biomarkers of cardiovascular disease in the United States by income: Disparities between the richest 20% and the poorest 80%,1999-2018. SSM Popul Health. 2021 Mar; 13:100745.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 33604447; PMCID: PMC7872963; DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100745;

Sampson L, Ettman CK, Abdalla SM, Colyer E, Dukes K, Lane KJ, Galea S. Financial hardship and health risk behavior during COVID-19 in a large US national sample of women. SSM Popul Health. 2021 Mar; 13:100734.View Related Profiles.

Lane, Kevin
Dukes, Kimberly Ann
Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 33521228; PMCID: PMC7823049; DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100734;

Ettman CK, Abdalla SM, Cohen GH, Sampson L, Vivier PM, Galea S. Low assets and financial stressors associated with higher depression during COVID-19 in a nationally representative sample of US adults. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2020 Dec 04.View Related Profiles.

Cohen, Gregory
Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 33277339; PMCID: PMC7722349; DOI: 10.1136/jech-2020-215213;

Galea S, Ettman CK, Abdalla SM. Learning From the US COVID-19 Response Toward Creating a Healthier Country. Am J Public Health. 2020 12; 110(12):1794-1796.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 33180574; PMCID: PMC7661982; DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305921;

Abdalla SM, Maani N, Ettman CK, Galea S. Claiming Health as a Public Good in the Post-COVID-19 Era. Development (Rome). 2020; 63(2-4):200-204.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 33192033; PMCID: PMC7653666; DOI: 10.1057/s41301-020-00255-z;

Abdalla SM, Keyes KM, Galea S. A Public Health Approach to Tackling the Role of Culture in Shaping the Gun Violence Epidemic in the United States. Public Health Rep. 2021 Jan/Feb; 136(1):6-9.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 33108975; PMCID: PMC7856385; DOI: 10.1177/0033354920965263;

Ettman CK, Cohen GH, Abdalla SM, Galea S. Do assets explain the relation between race/ethnicity and probable depression in U.S. adults? PLoS One. 2020; 15(10):e0239618.View Related Profiles.

Cohen, Gregory
Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 33006988; PMCID: PMC7531850; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0239618;

Abdalla SM, Solomon H, Trinquart L, Galea S. What is considered as global health scholarship? A meta-knowledge analysis of global health journals and definitions. BMJ Glob Health. 2020 10; 5(10).View Related Profiles.

Trinquart, Ludovic
Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 33109635; PMCID: PMC7592257; DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002884;

Galea S, Ettman CK, Abdalla SM. Access to health care and the 2020 US election. Lancet. 2020 09 19; 396(10254):803-805.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 32910909

Ettman CK, Abdalla SM, Cohen GH, Sampson L, Vivier PM, Galea S. Prevalence of Depression Symptoms in US Adults Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 09 01; 3(9):e2019686.View Related Profiles.

Cohen, Gregory
Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 32876685; PMCID: PMC7489837; DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.19686;

Abdalla SM, Yu S, Galea S. Trends in Cardiovascular Disease Prevalence by Income Level in the United States. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 09 01; 3(9):e2018150.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 32975572; PMCID: PMC7519418; DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.18150;

Maani N, Abdalla SM, Galea S. The Firearm Industry as a Commercial Determinant of Health. Am J Public Health. 2020 08; 110(8):1182-1183.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 32639903

Galea S, Abdalla SM. COVID-19 Pandemic, Unemployment, and Civil Unrest: Underlying Deep Racial and Socioeconomic Divides. JAMA. 2020 Jul 21; 324(3):227-228.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 32530457

Galea S, Abdalla SM, Sturchio JL. Social determinants of health, data science, and decision-making: Forging a transdisciplinary synthesis. PLoS Med. 2020 06; 17(6):e1003174.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 32525875; PMCID: PMC7289342; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003174;

Abdelgadir J, Ong EW, Abdalla SM, Hunting JC, Diab MM, Haglund MM, Goodwin CR, Nelli A, Gulur P. Demographic Factors Associated with Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Pain Management. Pain Physician. 2020 01; 23(1):17-24. PMID: 32013275

Galea S, Abdalla SM. Putting Health at the Heart of National Policymaking: Learning from New Zealand. Milbank Q. 2019 Oct 24.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 31650579; PMCID: PMC6904255; DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12410;

Mahgoub E, Nimir M, Abdalla S, Elhuda DA. Effects of school-based health education on attitudes of female students towards female genital mutilation in Sudan. East Mediterr Health J. 2019 Aug 19; 25(6):406-412. PMID: 31469160

Abdalla SM, Galea S. Is female genital mutilation/cutting associated with adverse mental health consequences? A systematic review of the evidence. BMJ Glob Health. 2019; 4(4):e001553.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 31406589; PMCID: PMC6666816; DOI: 10.1136/bmjgh-2019-001553;

Ibrahim A, Abdalla SM, Jafer M, Abdelgadir J, de Vries N. Child labor and health: a systematic literature review of the impacts of child labor on child's health in low- and middle-income countries. J Public Health (Oxf). 2019 Mar 01; 41(1):18-26. PMID: 29409061; PMCID: PMC6459361; DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdy018;

Abdalla SM, Mahgoub EA, Abdelgadir J, Elhassan N, Omer Z. Operationalization of patients' rights in Sudan: Quantifying nurses' knowledge. Nurs Ethics. 2019 Nov-Dec; 26(7-8):2239-2246. PMID: 30322330

Abdalla SM, Ognenis S. Essentials of Global Health, Edited by Babulal Sethia and Parveen Kumar. Key Concepts in Global Health. Elsevier. London. 2018; 7 - 13.
Ettman C, Abdalla SM, Galea S. Applying population health science principles to guide behavioral health policy setting. Behavioral Science & Policy. 2018; 4(1):17-23. View Publication

Galea S, Abdalla SM. Precision Medicine Approaches and the Health of Populations: Study Design Concerns and Considerations. Perspect Biol Med. 2018; 61(4):527-536.View Related Profiles.

Abdalla, Salma
Galea, Sandro

PMID: 30613035

This graph shows the total number of publications by year, by first, middle/unknown, or last author.

Bar chart showing 50 publications over 5 distinct years, with a maximum of 26 publications in 2021

Bar chart showing 50 publications over 5 distinct years, with a maximum of 26 publications in 2021

Year	Publications
2018	4
2019	4
2020	13
2021	26
2022	3

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