Corinne Riddell

Dr. Corinne Riddell serves as Associate Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, where she conducts pioneering research on racial health inequalities through social and perinatal epidemiology. Her work investigates structural drivers of disparities in infant mortality and injury-related deaths between Black and White Americans, employing advanced causal methodologies and interactive data visualization to analyze state-level variations in health outcomes.

Her academic credentials include:

• PhD in Epidemiology from McGill University (2016)
• MSc in Statistics from University of British Columbia (2011)
• BMath in Statistics from University of Waterloo (2009)
• BBA from Wilfrid Laurier University (2009)

Dr. Riddell's research centers on structural racism's impact on maternal and child health, with particular focus on nativity-based disparities among Black women and innovative applications of digital epidemiology. Her methodological expertise bridges traditional epidemiological frameworks with computational approaches for analyzing complex health inequities across geographic and demographic dimensions.

Analysis of her 2024-2025 publications reveals intensifying focus on structural determinants of health, including latent profile analysis of state racism typologies, workforce diversity impacts on cardiovascular mortality, and neighborhood-level police violence effects on maternal morbidity. Her work increasingly integrates novel data sources like Google search trends with traditional public health surveillance systems.

Dr. Riddell secured a $2.7 million grant in July 2022 to study early life stressors in Mexican-origin children and revolutionized UC Berkeley's PH142 course in Fall 2018 by incorporating R-based data science curriculum, training public health students in modern data manipulation and visualization techniques essential for contemporary epidemiological practice.