Farah Qureshi

Farah Qureshi, ScD, MHS '10, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. As a social epidemiologist, she investigates the early life origins of cardiovascular health disparities and the interplay between social environments, mental health, and chronic disease risk.

• Education: ScD from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2019), MHS from Johns Hopkins (2010), BA from Johns Hopkins University (2008)

Her research applies positive youth development theory to examine how psychosocial assets (psychological well-being, family relationships, social capital) influence health trajectories from adolescence to adulthood. She specializes in longitudinal data analysis using cohorts like Add Health, Nurses' Health Study, and Generation R. Recent work connects mental health with physical health outcomes across the lifespan.

As a methodological expert, Dr. Qureshi has published 29 peer-reviewed works (including 15 since 2021) on topics spanning body mass index, depressive symptoms, prosocial behavior, and social determinants of cardiometabolic disease. Her 2025 Health Psychology study on Millennium Cohort data demonstrates lifelong impacts of childhood social environments.

Scientific Recognition:

• 2020-2022 NHLBI Loan Repayment Program Recipient
• 2020 Tulane Telomere Research Network Pilot Award
• 2020 American Psychosomatic Society Young Investigator Colloquium
• 2017 Harvard Lee Kum Sheung Center Dissertation Award

Dr. Qureshi teaches Life Course Perspectives on Health and Adolescent Health and Development courses, mentoring students in life course epidemiology and psychosocial health modeling. Her work bridges mental health, social capital, and cardiometabolic disease prevention across diverse international cohorts.