Tasleem J. Padamsee, PhD

Associate Professor
Co-Director, Undergraduate Honors Program
Health Services Management and Policy

Email
padamsee.1@osu.edu
Phone
614-688-0986
Office
280F Cunz Hall, 1841 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210
Links
Tasleem J. Padamsee

“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.”

Biography

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 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 and faculty director of the OSUCCC-James Recruitment, Intervention and Survey Shared Resource.

Dr. Padamsee is the principal investigator of the Daughter Sister Mother Project, which studies 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 dynamics of risk-management decision making, racial and socioeconomic disparities in access to cancer prevention methods, and more. This team is designing patient-facing interventions and expanding its research to additional racial-ethnic groups, genders and countries.

Dr. Padamsee has been intensively involved in COVID-19 response, recovery and research. She helped shape Ohio’s response to COVID-19 in vulnerable populations, designed an initiative to increase testing and led the Wexner Medical Center’s mass 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.

Dr. Padamsee’s research has also documented how the United States and United Kingdom responded to HIV/AIDS over almost 50 years, and the origins of cross-national policy differences.

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship
Sociology, The Ohio State University, 2009-2011
Ph.D.
Sociology, University of Michigan, 2007
M.A.
Sociology, University of Michigan, 2000
Graduate Certificate
Women’s Studies, University of Michigan, 2000
B.A.
Psychology & Premedical Studies, Cornell University, 1994

Research interests

Breast cancer prevention, Health disparities, U.S. health policy, Health care institutions, Women’s Health, Comparative health politics, HIV/AIDS Policy, Qualitative research methods, Comparative and historical research methods, Medical Sociology, Political Sociology, Feminist Theory

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