Mudia Uzzi

Mudia Uzzi is a Bloomberg Assistant Professor of American Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management.

Uzzi’s research has focused on improving the health and safety of communities by considering the role of a broad range of potential social and economic drivers, including credit scores. He also studies the relationship between overdose and interpersonal violence, two focus areas for the Initiative.

Uzzi received his PhD in 2022 from the Bloomberg School where he studied the high rates of firearm violence in Baltimore City. During a postdoctoral fellowship, also at the Bloomberg School, he trained in the Drug Dependence Epidemiology Training Program. This program helps epidemiologists better understand social, environmental, genetic, and biological factors that contribute to substance use as well as treatment and emerging trends.

Uzzi has won several awards for his research and public health practice, including the Impact Science Award and Multidisciplinary Science Award from the Research Society for the Prevention of Firearm-Related Harms, National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) New Investigator Research Award from the American Public Health Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Harvard Injury Control Research Center Research Award, the Distinguished Doctoral Research Award and the Excellence in Baltimore Public Health Practice Award from the Bloomberg School, the Reverend Melvin B. Tuggle East Baltimore Community Excellence Award from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and more.