Dr. Ola Abdelhadi is a Healthcare Professional and Researcher based in the Bay Area, CA.

Education

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Ph.D., Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UC Davis, Davis, CA

M.P.H., Community Health, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN          

MD, M.Sc., School of Medicine, Ain-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Research

Dr. Abdelhadi’s research expertise encompasses health services research, epidemiology, health economics, health care quality, health outcomes, utilization, expenditures, access to care, and health equity. She has extensive experience designing and analyzing studies using large administrative, claims, clinical, and population-based datasets to evaluate health care quality, utilization, costs, access, and patient outcomes. Her research has examined cancer care and survivorship, private equity investment in health care, market competition and health care prices, health care expenditures and utilization, and racial and socioeconomic disparities in health care. She applies epidemiologic, biostatistical, econometric, and causal inference methods to assess how health care delivery, financing, and structural factors affect quality, affordability, access, and equity. The focus of her work is to translate complex health services data into actionable evidence that can inform health policy, improve health care delivery, and address inequities in health outcomes.