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Onyebuchi A Arah, M.D., D.Sc., M.P.H., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Epidemiology

Work Phone Number: (310) 206-0050

Email Address: arah@ucla.edu
Work Email Address: arah@ucla.edu

Education: M.D.
Education: D.Sc.
Education: M.P.H.
Education: Ph.D.
Education: M.S.
Research Interests:

Major Discipline

Epidemiology, Global Health, and Health Services

Major Research Interest

Epidemiologic methodology and statistics; causal analysis of non-experimental studies; global context of health and healthcare with particular interest in developing countries; life course approach to health and healthcare research.

Current Research Interest

Bias analysis; causal diagrams for epidemiologic research; contextual determinants of the global burden of chronic diseases; hierarchical modeling of hospital survey and discharge data on patient experiences and outcomes; comparative effectiveness research.


Selected Publications:

Damman Olga C, Stubbe Janine H, Hendriks Michelle, Arah Onyebuchi A, Spreeuwenberg Peter, Delnoij Diana M J, Groenewegen Peter P Using multilevel modeling to assess case-mix adjusters in consumer experience surveys in health care.. Medical care. 2009; 47(4): 496-503.

Arah Onyebuchi A, Chiba Yasutaka, Greenland Sander Bias formulas for external adjustment and sensitivity analysis of unmeasured confounders.. Annals of epidemiology. 2008; 18(8): 637-46.

Slobbe Laurentius C J, Arah Onyebuchi A, de Bruin Agnes, Westert Gert P Mortality in Dutch hospitals: trends in time, place and cause of death after admission for myocardial infarction and stroke. An observational study.. BMC health services research. 2008; 8(8): 52.

Arah Onyebuchi A The role of causal reasoning in understanding Simpson's paradox, Lord's paradox, and the suppression effect: covariate selection in the analysis of observational studies.. Emerging themes in epidemiology. 2008; 5(8): 5.

Arah Onyebuchi A, Ogbu Uzor C, Okeke Chukwudi E Too poor to leave, too rich to stay: developmental and global health correlates of physician migration to the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United kingdom.. American journal of public health. 2008; 98(1): 148-54.

Arah Onyebuchi A Physician migration and the Millennium Development Goals for maternal health: the untold story.. The Medical journal of Australia. 2007; 186(12): 659-60.
Contact Information:
Mailing Address:
650 Charles E. Young Drive South
Box 951772
71-236B CHS
Los Angeles, CA 90095
UNITED STATES

Work Phone Number: (310) 206-0050

Email Address: arah@ucla.edu
Work Email Address: arah@ucla.edu

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