Serena Guo MD, PhD

Serena Guo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy at the University of Florida (UF) College of Pharmacy. She received her MD from Peking University in Beijing, China and her PhD in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh. After a one-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing also at the University of Pittsburgh, in December 2020, Dr. Guo joined the faculty of UF. Dr. Guo has published nearly 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts. Several articles have been published in top-tier journals, including Diabetes Care, Lancet and BMJ, and featured in media outlets, including Washington Post, NPR, and CNN.

Dr. Guo conducts epidemiologic and health services research focusing on cardiovascular health and diabetes. Her research draws on large healthcare databases and advanced analytics (e.g., machine learning and causal mediation analysis) to evaluate: 1) geographic and racial and ethnic inequities in treatment use and clinical outcomes, 2) the effects of potentially modifiable social determinants of health (e.g., neighborhood-level social and built environment and individuals’ social-behavioral factors), and 3) fairness and bias in machine learning predictions across racial and ethnic groups.