Tasleem J. Padamsee, PhD

Associate Professor

Co-Director, Undergraduate Honors Program

Health Services Management and Policy

Tasleem Padamsee, PhD

Working in public health means working with people who are passionate about improving the health of individuals, families, and groups and open-minded enough to solve problems using whatever tools are the most effective. I love collaborating with faculty and staff who have many different types of expertise to make a practical impact and advance cutting-edge research. And I love collaborating with students who are determined to find their own niche and make the world a better place.

Contact

280F Cunz Hall
1841 Neil Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
Email: padamsee.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-688-0986
Pronouns: she/her
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Website: Padamsee Research Group
C3-REACH

Dr. Padamsee brings theoretical and methodological tools from sociology and women’s studies to bear on public health problems. She is a scholar of health disparities and health systems, whose research program explores the intersections of social inequality, public policy and health care. Her work has been funded by the NIH, NSF, Reed Foundation, Wellcome Trust, the Cancer Control Program at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute, the Stefanie Spielman Fund for Breast Cancer Research, state contracts and private funders. She is also a methodological expert and campus-wide leader in the use of qualitative research in the health sciences, founder and leader of Ohio State’s Advanced Seminar on Qualitative and Community-Engaged Research Methods (QCERM), and faculty director of the OSUCCC-James Recruitment, Intervention and Survey Shared Resource.

Dr. Padamsee is the principal investigator of the Daughter Sister Mother (DSM) Project, which conducts multi-method studies of how diverse individuals at elevated risk for breast-chest cancer make prevention decisions and how these groups can better be supported to manage cancer risk. These studies have documented the multi-level dynamics of risk-management decision making, racial and socioeconomic disparities in access to cancer prevention methods, and more. This team is presently designing patient-facing interventions and undertaking expanding its research to additional racial-ethnic groups, genders and countries.

Dr. Padamsee has been intensively involved in COVID-19 response, recovery and research activities. She helped shape Ohio’s response to COVID-19 in vulnerable populations, designed an initiative to increase COVID testing and led the Wexner Medical Center’s mass COVID-19 vaccination site to advance regional health equity. She also leads the Committed to Communities Collaborative: Research and Engagement to Advance beyond COVID to Health Equity (C3-REACH).

Dr. Padamsee’s policy research has documented how the United States and United Kingdom responded to HIV/AIDS over almost 50 years, and the origins of cross-national policy differences in political and health institutions, cultural contexts and political mobilization.