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Mudia Uzzi, PhD ’22, MSc, leads transdisciplinary community-based research and advocates for place-based solutions to address the root causes of violence and overdose.
Research Interests
social determinants of health; firearm violence; drug overdose; suicide; substance use disorder; housing; spatial epidemiology; social epidemiology; social policy; community-based public health; neighborhoods; intersectionality; structural racism; racial capitalism; structural determinants
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Honors & Awards
- National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) New Investigator Research Award American Public Health Association and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2025)
- Best Science Oral Presentation Award Finalist—Early Career/Student Category Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (2025)
- Impact Science Award Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms (2024)
- NIDA Diversity Scholars Travel Award National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Office of Research Training, Diversity, and Disparities (2024)
- Edward Alexander Bouchet Graduate Honor Society Inductee Johns Hopkins University (2024)
- Harvard Injury Control Research Center (HICRC) Research Award Harvard University (2023 and 2024)
- Multidisciplinary Science Award Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms (2022)
- Brooks Webb Student Paper Competition Award Society for Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (2022)
- Reverend Melvin B. Tuggle East Baltimore Community Excellence Award Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2022)
- Health Policy Research Scholars Dissertation Award Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2022)
- Excellence in Baltimore Public Health Practice Award Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2022)
- Susan P. Baker Scholarship in Injury Prevention and Control Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2021)
- 21st Century Cities Initiative Award for Doctoral Research on Urban Issues Johns Hopkins University (2021)
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Uzzi, M., Ricard, J. R., Belton, I., Linton, S., Marineau, L., Johnson, R. M., Latkin, C., & Nesoff, E. (2025). Fatal Opioid Overdoses by Historical and Contemporary Neighborhood-Level Structural Racism. Jama Health Forum, 6(11), e253986-e253986. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2025.3986
Uzzi, M., Ocampo, P., Wical, W., Aune, K., McComas, M., & Dean, L. T. (2025). Spatial Association of Area-Level Credit Scores and Firearm Violence: A Novel Measure of Socioeconomic Position for Violence and Injury Research. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 108100. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2025.108100
Uzzi, M., Whittaker, S., Esposito, M. H., Dean, L. T., Buggs, S. A., & Pollack Porter, K. M. (2024). Racial capitalism and firearm violence: Developing a theoretical framework for firearm violence research examining structural racism. Social Science & Medicine, 358, 117255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117255
Uzzi, M., Aune, K. T., Marineau, L., Jones, F. K., Dean, L. T., Jackson, J. W., & Latkin, C. A. (2023). An intersectional analysis of historical and contemporary structural racism on non-fatal shootings in Baltimore, Maryland. Injury Prevention, 29(1), 85-90. https://doi.org/10.1136/ip-2022-044700
Marineau, L. A., Uzzi, M., Buggs, S. A., Ihenacho, N., & Campbell, J. C. (2024). Risk and Protective Factors for Firearm Assault Injuries Among Black Men: A Scoping Review of Research. Trauma Violence & Abuse, 25(3), 2468-2488. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380231217042
Yi, G., Dayton, L., Uzzi, M., Browne, K., Konstantopoulos, A., & Latkin, C. (2022). Spatial and neighborhood-level correlates of lay naloxone reversal events and service availability. International Journal of Drug Policy, 106, Article 103739. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103739