Nadia Abuelezam, ScD, is an epidemiologist and the 1855 Associate Professor of Family Medicine at MSU's College of Human Medicine. She serves as the Co-Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Health Equity Research for Action Coordinating Center at MSU. She also leads the SAWA Center, an initiative which is developing a community-centered research agenda for Arab and Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) American health in the U.S. She works alongside Arab/MENA American populations using community-centered approaches with a common goal of advancing health equity and wellness. Due to her extensive statistical and quantitative training, she is particularly interested in developing new methods to incorporate structural causes, like racism, into epidemiological analyses.