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Hire Dr. Hatice Z.
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Freelance Scientist & Data Analyst with 20+ Years of experience in Public Health research, and 40+ Publications

Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing Medical Writing, Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing
Research Scientific and Technical Research
Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting
Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Data Mining
Product Development Formulation, Product Evaluation
Work Experience

Medical Officer

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

November 2006 - May 2025

Epidemiologist

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

March 2003 - November 2006

Education

MPH

SUNY at Albany, NY

September 2000 - March 2002

Medical Doctor

Medical School, University of Ankara, Turkey

September 1972 - July 1978

Certifications

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    January 2025 - January 2025

Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Pate CA, Zahran HS. The Status of Asthma in the United States. Prev Chronic Dis 2024;21:240005. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd21.240005 .
Xiaoting Qin, , Cynthia A. Pate, & Hatice S. Zahran, (2024) Factors associated with emergency department visits for asthma resulting in hospital admission—United States, 2020, Journal of Asthma, DOI: 10.1080/02770903.2024.2303753 .
Pate CA, Qin Xiaoting, Johnson C, Zahran HS. Asthma disparities among U.S. children and adults. Journal of Asthma (2023), DOI: 10.1080/02770903.2023.2228915 .
Qin Xiaoting, Pate CA, Zahran HS. Adult Asthma Prevalence and Trend Analysis by Urban–Rural Status Across Sociodemographic Characteristics — United States, 2012–2020. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: Global, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacig.2023.100085 .
https://doi.org/10.1177/00333549211047552 .
Xiaoting Qin, Hatice S Zahran, Michelle Leon-Nguyen, Greta Kilmer, Pamela Collins, Paige Welch, Josephine Malilay. Trends in Asthma-Related School Health Policies and Practices in the US States. J Sch Health. 2022 Mar;92(3):252-260. doi: 10.1111/josh.13124. Epub 2021 Dec 14 .
Pate CA, Zahran HS, Malilay J, Hsu J. The Shifting Prevalence of Asthma and Allergic Disease in United States Children. Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol (2022), Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 129 (2022) pp. 481-489. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1081120622005865) .
Audrey F. Pennington, Joy Hsu, Kanta Sircar, Maria C. Mirabelli & Hatice S. Zahran (2020): Daycare attendance and asthma control, Asthma Call-back Survey 2012–2014, Journal of Asthma, DOI: 10.1080/02770903.2020.1759088 .
Xiaoting Qin, Hatice S. Zahran & Josephine Malilay (2020) Asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits and post-ED visit hospital and critical care admissions, National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2010–2015, Journal of Asthma, DOI: 10.1080/02770903.2020.1713149 .
Cynthia A. Pate, Hatice S. Zahran, Xiaoting Qin, Carol Johnson, Erik Hummelman, and Josephine Malilay. Asthma Surveillance — United States, 2006–2018. MMWR Surveill Summ 2021;70 (No. SS-5):1-36. Available at https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/ss/pdfs/ss7005a1-H.pdf .
Cornwell CR, Egan KB, Zahran HS, Mirabelli MC, Hsu J, Chew GL. Associations of blood lead levels with asthma and blood eosinophils in US children. Pediatr Allergy Immunol. 2020 Mar 11. doi: 10.1111/pai.13241 .
Rozwadowski FM, Chew GL, Zahran HS, Santorelli ML. Assessing Indoor Environmental Control Practices by Race/Ethnicity Among Children With Asthma in 14 US States and Puerto Rico, 2013–2014. Prev Chronic Dis 2019;16:190199. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd16.190199 .
Lillianne M. Lewis, Tyiesha Johnson, Matthew Lozier & Hatice S. Zahran (2019) Health communications: provider assessment of asthma control, Journal of Asthma, 56:12, 1288-1293, DOI: 10.1080/02770903.2018.1541352 .
Cynthia A. Pate, Xiaoting Qin, Cathy M. Bailey, and Hatice S. Zahran. Cost barriers to asthma care by health insurance type among children with asthma. Journal of Asthma. Received 11 Feb 2019, Accepted 02 Jul 2019, Published online: 25 Jul 2019 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02770903.2019.1640730?needAccess=true3 .
Audrey F. Pennington, Kanta Sircar, Joy Hsu, Hatice S. Zahran, Scott A. Damon,Maria C. Mirabelli. Communication channels for air quality alerts in the United States. Preventive Medicine Reports 14 (2019) 100860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2019.100860 .
Cynthia A. Pate, Hatice S. Zahran & Cathy M. Bailey (2018): Impaired health related quality of life and related risk factors among US adults with asthma, Journal of Asthma, DOI:10.1080/02770903.2018.1466314 .
Matthew J. Lozier, Hatice S. Zahran & Cathy M. Bailey (2018): Assessing health outcomes, quality of life, and healthcare use among school-age children with asthma, Journal of Asthma, DOI: 10.1080/02770903.2018.1426767 .
Qin, X., Bailey C. M. & Zahran, H. S. (2019), Comparison response patterns on landline and cell phone in a call back survey: effects of demographic characteristics and lag days. Survey Insights: Methods from the Field. Retrieved from https://surveyinsights.org/?p=12423DOI:10.13094/SMIF-2019-00019 .
Mirabelli MC, Boehmer TK, Damon SA, Sircar KD, Wall HK, Yip FY, Zahran HS, Garbe, PL. Air Quality Awareness among U.S. Adults with Respiratory and Heart Disease. Am J Prev Med. 2018 May; 54(5):679-687. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2018.01.037. Epub 2018 Mar 15 .
Zahran HS, Bailey CM, Damon SA, Garbe, PL, Breysse PN. Vital Signs: Asthma in Children — United States, 2001–2016. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2018; 67:149–155. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6705e1 .
Zahran HS, Bailey CM, Qin X, Johnson C. Long-term control medication use and asthma control status among children and adults with asthma. J Asthma, 2017; Accepted 29 Jan 2017, Published online: 10 Mar 2017, available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02770903.2017.1290105 .
Cui W, Zack MM, Zahran HS. Health-Related Quality of Life and Asthma among United States Adolescents. J Pediatr. 2015 Feb; 166(2):358-64. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.10.005. Epub 2014 Nov 12 .
El Burai Félix S, Bailey CM, Zahran HS. Asthma prevalence among Hispanic adults in Puerto Rico and Hispanic adults of Puerto Rican descent in the United States - results from two national surveys. J Asthma. 2015 Feb; 52(1):3-9. doi: 10.3109/02770903.2014.950427. Epub 2014 Aug 19 .
Zahran HS, Bailey CM, Qin X, Moorman JE. Assessing asthma control and associated risk factors among persons with current asthma – findings from the child and adult Asthma Call-back. J Asthma, 2014; Nov 25: 1-9.
Zahran HS, Bailey CM, Qin X, Moorman, JE. Assessing asthma severity among children and adults with current asthma. J Asthma, 2014; 51(6): 610–617.
Zahran HS, Bailey CM. Factors Associated with Asthma Prevalence among Racial and Ethnic Groups—United States, 2009–2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. J Asthma. 2013 Aug; 50(6):583-9. doi: 10.3109/02770903.2013.794238. Epub 2013 Jun 5 .
Chanda N, Collins, Pamela, Zahran, Hatice S (July 2013) “Disparities in Asthma Care, Management, and Education among Children with Asthma, Clinical Pulmonary Medicine, July 2013; 20(4):172-177. doi: 10.1097/CPM.0b013e3182991146 .
Moorman J, Person C, Zahran HS. CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report—United States, 2013 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Asthma Attacks Among Persons with Current Asthma — United States, 2001–2010. MMWR 2013; 62(Suppl 3):93-98.
Zahran HS, Person, C J, Bailey C, Moorman JE. “Predictors of Asthma Self-Management Education among Children and Adults---2006-2007 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Asthma Call-back Survey. J Asthma. 2012 Feb; 49(1):98-106.
Winer RA, Qin X, Harrington T, Moorman JE, Zahran HS. “Asthma Incidence among Children and Adults: Findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Asthma Call-back Survey — United States, 2006–2008.” J Asthma. 2012; 49:16–22.
Moorman JE, Akinbami LJ, Bailey CM, Zahran HS, King ME, Johnson CA, et al. National surveillance of asthma: United States, 2001-2010. Vital & health statistics Series 3, Analytical and epidemiological studies / [US Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Center for Health Statistics]. 2012(35):1-67.
Zahran H, Bailey C, Garbe P. Vital Signs: Asthma prevalence, disease characteristics, and self-management education¬ --- United States, 2001-2009. MMWR 2011; 60:547-52.
Nguyen K, Zahran HS, Iqbal S, Peng J, Boulay. “Factors Associated with Asthma Control among Adults in Five New England States, 2006–2007.” J Asthma 2011; Vol. 48, No. 6, Pages 581-8.
Moorman J, Zahran H, Truman BI, Molla MT. CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report—United States, 2010. In: Surveillance Summaries, October 19, 2007. MMWR 2011; 60(Suppl):28-32 and 79-81.
Richardson LC, Wingo PA, Zack MM, Zahran HS, and King J. Health-related Quality of Life (HRQL) in Young Cancer Survivors: Population-Based Estimates from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), Cancer, American Cancer Society, Published Online: 24 Jan 2008.Available at < http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgibin/fulltext/117899437/HTMLSTART> .
Rosemarie Kobau, Hatice Zahran, David J. Thurman, Matthew M. Zack, Thomas R. Henry, Steven C. Schachter, Patricia H. Price. Epilepsy Surveillance among Adults — 19 States, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2005— CDC, MMWR 2008; 57 (No. SS-6).
Zahran HS, Zack MM, Vernon-Smiley ME, Hertz MF. Health-related quality of life and behaviors risky to health among adults aged 18-24 years in secondary or higher education--United States, 2003-2005. J Adolescent Health. 2007 Oct; 41(4):389-97.
Kobau R, Zahran H, Grant D, Thurman DJ, Price PH, Zack MM. Prevalence of Active Epilepsy and Health-Related Quality of Life among Adults with Self-Reported Epilepsy in California: California Health Interview Survey, 2003. Epilepsy. 2007 Oct; 48(10):1904-13. Epub 2007 Jun 12.
Zahran HS, Kobau R, Moriarty DG, Zack MM, Holt J, Donehoo R. Health-related Quality of Life Surveillance — United States, 1993–2002. CDC, MMWR 2005; 54 (No. SS-4).
Keyes CL, Barret M, Kobau R, Zahran HS, Zack MM, Simoes EJ. Social support and health-related quality of life among older adults—Missouri, 2000, CDC, MMWR 2005; 54(17):433-37.
Moriarty DG, Kobau R, Zack MM, Zahran HS. Tracking Healthy Days — a window on the health of older adults. Prev Chronic Dis [serial online] 2005 2(3) A16:8pp. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2005/jul/05_0023.htm .
Zahran HS, Kobau R, Moriarty DG, Zack MM, Giles WH, Lando J. Self-reported frequent mental distress among adults—United States, 1993–2001, CDC, MMWR 2004;53(41):963-66.
Zahran H, Zack M, Moriarty D, Kobau, R. Health-related Quality of Life Among Low-Income Persons Aged 45-64 years—United States, 1995–2000, CDC, MMWR 2003;52:1120-1124.