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Sara E. Abiola

Sara E. Abiola PhD, JD

Health Care Policy and Research, Mental Health and Law
New York, New York, United States of America

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Dr. Abiola's research focuses on the relationship between public policy and population health with an emphasis on food law and noncommunicable diseases, overweight, and obesity among children, adolescents, and young adults. Her most recent work includes constructing a country-level index for NCD prevention laws that aggregates existing law and policy data about food, alcohol, tobacco regulations into a single measure, developing a theoretical framework for linking laws to health-related behaviors and outcomes, and identifying factors that shape the use of evidence in public policymaking.

Dr. Abiola also explores statutory and regulatory mechanisms to integrate the delivery of health and social services to address the social determinants of health and the effects of state-level laws on youth overweight and obesity. She has co-authored publications on these topics and others in the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, and the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics and has contributed to public health conversations on NPR Radio and Vox.
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