Hind A. Baydoun PhD

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By training, Hind Baydoun is an epidemiologist with a doctoral degree (PhD in Epidemiology) from the University of Iowa (since December of 2009), and prior to that, she had earned a Masters of Public Health (MPH, in 1998) and two Bachelor of Science degrees (BS Biology in 1993 and BS Nutrition & Dietetics in 1995) from the American University of Beirut. Currently, Hind is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program in Public Health at Eastern Virginia Medical School, where she teaches introductory and advanced coursework in Epidemiology, conducts independent and collaborative research as well as provides consulting services through the Epi-Bio core and serves on departmental and institution-wide committees. Over the years, Hind has developed diverse research interests as manifested in the broad range of topics: [1] perinatology, neonatology and pediatrics; [2] infertility; [3] cancer prevention; [4] violence, injuries and sexually transmitted diseases; [5] obesity, depression and cognitive function. Her 60+ peer-reviewed articles have been published in high-impact factor journals including American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, American Journal of Infection Control, American Journal of Hypertension, American Journal of Epidemiology, Annals of Epidemiology, BJU international, Clinical Cancer Research, Fertility and Sterility, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, Journal of Nutrition, Neurobiology of aging, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Obesity Reviews and Psychosomatic medicine. So far, Hind’s publications have been cited over 300 times (See Scopus Search). She has 40+ presentations/posters at local, national and international meetings including American College of Epidemiology, Experimental Biology, Society for Epidemiologic Research, Society for Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiologic Research and Women’s Health. She is also an active member of several professional societies including American College of Epidemiology, American Society for Nutrition, Society for Epidemiologic Research and Society for Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiologic Research and has served as an ad-hoc reviewer of 20+ and an editorial board member of 2 public health and medical journals.

Before joining the PhD program at the University of Iowa, Hind was actively involved in the design, implementation and dissemination of research projects by the National Collaborative Perinatal and Neonatal Network in Beirut, Lebanon. As a doctoral student, she was involved in management and analysis of data from two case-control studies, namely the Iowa Health in Pregnancy Study and the Study of Pregnancy Hypertension in Iowa. As a faculty member, Hind was the principal investigator on several research projects that required the collection of survey and medical records data on outcomes of assisted reproductive technologies, primary care and emergency department patients. Furthermore, she has experience with the analysis of national survey data, including the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring Surveys and the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. In addition, she has collaborated with the National Institute on Aging on the analysis of two cohort studies, namely the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging and the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Lifespan Study. Her pre-doctoral, doctoral and post-doctoral experiences provided her the opportunity to learn and apply advanced statistical techniques, including complex survey design methods, meta-analysis and meta-regression receiver operator characteristic curve analysis, missing data analysis, longitudinal data analysis, factor analysis and structural equations modeling. Hind is currently proficient in the use of several statistical packages, including JMP, SAS, SPSS and STATA.