Samah Fodeh-Jarad

Dr. Samah Fodeh-Jarad is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine & Biostatistics at Yale School of Medicine, with secondary appointments at the Yale School of Public Health and affiliations at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System. She holds a PhD from Michigan State University (2010) and directs the Data Mining Lab, focusing on AI-driven healthcare innovations.

• Biomedical Informatics & Data Science
• Biostatistics
• Computational Biology

Her research integrates machine learning and natural language processing to analyze:

• Patient-provider communication dynamics
• Social/environmental determinants of health
• Public health crises (opioid addiction, suicide risk, COVID-19)
• Multimodal data fusion for clinical decision-making

Recent publications address:

• Predictive models for falls/fractures in HIV/veteran populations
• Social media analysis of pandemic-related public health concerns
• AI tools for pain care quality assessment and opioid misuse detection

She collaborates with researchers like Amy Justice, Harini Bathulapalli, and Joseph Goulet through programs including the NIH Bridge2AI initiative and Yale-BI Biomedical Data Science Fellowship.