Arjumand Siddiqi
Program
Junior Fellow Academy
Appointment
Associate (Successful Societies), Junior Fellow Academy - Alumni
Institution
University of Toronto
Country
Canada 
Arjumand Siddiqi was a CIFAR Junior Fellow from December 2008 to September 2009, working under the primary supervision of Successful Societies Fellow Dan Keating, Director of the Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan. Fellows Peter Hall and Jim Dunn provided secondary mentorship. In 2010, Arjumand became an Assistant Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She was previously an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of North Carolina (UNC). She received her Sc.D. in Social Epidemiology from Harvard University’s School of Public Health in 2005 under thesis advisor Ichiro Kawachi. She also holds a B.Sc. from McGill University’s School of Rehabilitation Medicine (1997) and an MPH from Boston University’s School of Public Health (2000). After completing her doctorate, Arjumand held positions at Columbia University, the University of British Columbia and the University of Tennessee before taking up her present position at UNC. She is currently also a Faculty Fellow at the Carolina Population Center, and was a member of the World Health Organization’s Early Child Development Knowledge Hub.
Arjumand is a social epidemiologist. She is interested in the role of social and economic aspects of societies in shaping inequities in population health and human development. In particular, her research utilizes a cross-national comparative perspective to understand the consequences of social welfare policies for inequalities in health and developmental outcomes. Areas of research include the influence of income inequality and social policies on inequities in adolescent schooling outcomes amongst the advanced market economies, the impact on population health of the transition from communism to a market-based economy among Eastern European nations, and an emerging body of work to understand health inequities in Canada versus the United States. Her CIFAR-supported program of research will examine international variations of socioeconomic inequities in children’s health and development.
Arjumand is a social epidemiologist. She is interested in the role of social and economic aspects of societies in shaping inequities in population health and human development. In particular, her research utilizes a cross-national comparative perspective to understand the consequences of social welfare policies for inequalities in health and developmental outcomes. Areas of research include the influence of income inequality and social policies on inequities in adolescent schooling outcomes amongst the advanced market economies, the impact on population health of the transition from communism to a market-based economy among Eastern European nations, and an emerging body of work to understand health inequities in Canada versus the United States. Her CIFAR-supported program of research will examine international variations of socioeconomic inequities in children’s health and development.