Email

hoda.badr@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor

Medicine
Epidemiology & Population Sciences
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Leader, Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences Program

Dan L Duncan Cancer Center

Addresses

One Baylor Plaza (Office)

Unit 307
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-1588
hoda.badr@bcm.edu
https://www.bcm.edu/research/labs/hoda-badr

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas United States

PhD from University of Houston

Houston, Texas United States

Social Psychology, Health and Personal Relationships

Professional Statement

As a health psychologist, my research mission is to develop and evaluate interventions to help patients and their family members cope with the symptoms and psychological demands of cancer and its treatment. Toward that end, my research: 1) engages patients, caregivers, and health care and community stakeholders to identify care gaps; 2) assesses factors that influence cancer care implementation and outcomes; and, 3) develops interventions to address disparate outcomes of care. My work spans the entire cancer prevention and control continuum and includes studies of couples coping with pre-neoplastic conditions, patients receiving curative cancer treatment and their informal caregivers, families coping with advanced cancers, and post-treatment cancer survivors. I am nationally and internationally recognized for my work to refine the methods and models used to understand how patients and caregivers navigate and cope with the cancer experience. I am also a recipient of several major grant awards from the National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institute of Nursing Research, and U.S. Department of Defense.

My research interests include:
• Understanding how individual, social, economic, and health system factors affect patient and caregiver access to and experiences with cancer care; and in turn, how this affects patient and caregiver health outcomes.

• Developing and evaluating behavioral interventions that empower patients and caregivers to play a more active role in health care with the goal of improving their health and well-being.

• Developing and evaluating interventions that seek to enhance the quality of cancer care, patient and caregiver experiences, and outcomes at the individual, provider, and health system levels.

• Working collaboratively with patients, caregivers, and healthcare and community stakeholders to develop and implement innovative solutions to reduce cancer burden.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Badr H, Zhang X, Oluyomi A, Woodard LD, Adepoju, OE, Raza SA, Amos CI "Overcoming COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: Insights from an online population-based survey in the United States." Vaccines.2021;9(10):1000. Pubmed PMID: 34696208
• Zhang X, Anandasabapathy S, Abrams J, Othman M, Badr H "Lifestyle risk factors, quality of life, and intervention preferences of Barrett’s Esophagus patients: A prospective cohort study." Global Advances in Health and Medicine.2021;10:1-12. Pubmed PMID: 33767920
• Bakhshaie J, Bonnen M, Asper J, Sandulache V, Badr H "Emotional disclosure and cognitive processing in couples coping with head and neck cancer." Journal of Behavioral Medicine.2020;43(3):411-425. Pubmed PMID: 31414332
• Badr H, Sobrero M, Chen J, Kotz T, Genden E, Sikora AG, Miles B "Associations between pre-, post-, and peri-operative variables and health resource use following surgery for head and neck cancer." Oral Oncology.2019;90:102-108. Pubmed PMID: 30846167

Funding

OPTIMISE: Improving Comprehensive Care of Cancer Patients with Comorbidities - #R01 CA2249474

Grant funding from National Cancer Institute

Determinants of Disparities in Post-Surgical Outcomes in GI Cancer - #RSG 21-047-01-CPPB

Grant funding from American Cancer Society

Adaptation and Evaluation of SHARE: A Palliative Care Intervention for Head and Neck Cancer Patients and their Caregivers - #R21 NR019116

Grant funding from National Institute of Nursing Research

Engaging Houston’s Underserved Communities to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Improve Uptake - #RF 50087-2021-0309-S9

Grant funding from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute - Part of TX Community Engagement Alliance

Skills

Quality of Life/Outcomes Research

Quantitative Methods: Dyadic Data Analysis

Qualitative and Mixed Methods

Stakeholder Engagement and Community Engaged Research

Implementation Science

Languages

Arabic