Faculty/Staff Donald Musa, MA, DrPH
Donald Musa is a senior research associate at the University Center for Social and Urban Research at the University of Pittsburgh with a secondary appointment in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences. He received his doctorate in public health from the University of Pittsburgh.
His broader substantive interests include the study of social and psychological factors that affect health-related behaviors and health outcomes, ranging from social/psychological to neighborhood and community determinants of health and illness. He has particular interests in the health of the elderly and health inequalities.
Musa’s recent research and publications focus on the study of self-care for chronic disease among African American and White older adults in Allegheny County with M. Silverman.
He has been involved in a wide variety of research in a methodological and analytic capacity and has expertise in survey methodology, evaluation, and data analysis. He teaches a course on health survey methods in the department.