Roberta McKean-Cowdin, PhD

Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences (Educational Scholar)

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Education and Training

  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor — B.S. — 1988 — Biology
  • University of Alabama, Birmingham — MPH — 1990 — Public Health
  • University of California, Los Angeles — Ph.D. — 1996 — Epidemiology

Publications

  • Prevalence and Demographic Characteristics of Cataract Among People Experiencing Homelessness: A Systematic Review. Public Health Rep. 2026 Aug 20; 333549261469460.. View in PubMed
  • Ocular Biometric Determinants of Intraocular Pressure and Risk Factors for Ocular Hypertension: The Chinese American Eye Study. J Glaucoma. 2026 Jun 01; 35(6):362-368.. View in PubMed
  • Expanding power and opportunity in public health education: the continuous learning for antiracist culture change fellowship program. Front Public Health. 2026; 14:1766034.. View in PubMed
  • Prevalence and Risk Factors of Open-Angle Glaucoma in an Adult Chinese American Population: The Chinese American Eye Study. Am J Ophthalmol. 2025 12; 280:9-19.. View in PubMed
  • Multi-ancestry polygenic risk scores for the prediction of type 2 diabetes and complications in diverse ancestries. medRxiv. 2025 Jul 23.. View in PubMed
  • Burden and Predictors of Undetected Eye Disease in Adult African Americans: African American Eye Disease Study (AFEDS). Am J Ophthalmol. 2025 11; 279:91-99.. View in PubMed
  • Survivorship from pediatric and adult brain tumors: The 2024 Brain Tumor Epidemiology Consortium meeting report. Neurooncol Adv. 2025 Jan-Dec; 7(1):vdaf095.. View in PubMed
  • Developing Laterality-Specific Computable Phenotypes from Electronic Health Record Data, Employing Treatment-Warranted Diabetic Macular Edema as a Use Case. Ophthalmol Sci. 2025 Sep-Oct; 5(5):100797.. View in PubMed
  • Large-scale multi-omics analyses in Hispanic/Latino populations identify genes for cardiometabolic traits. Nat Commun. 2025 Apr 11; 16(1):3438.. View in PubMed
  • Prevalence and Risk Factors of Primary Angle Closure Disease in an Adult Chinese American Population: The Chinese American Eye Study. Am J Ophthalmol. 2025 06; 274:32-41.. View in PubMed