
{"id":8,"date":"2015-06-23T16:08:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T20:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/template-faculty01\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-03-21T12:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T16:40:29","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aarif\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"group-header\" style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aarif\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/947\/2025\/03\/2025-03-21_12-37-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-187 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aarif\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/947\/2025\/03\/2025-03-21_12-37-03-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"Ahmed Arif\" width=\"226\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aarif\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/947\/2025\/03\/2025-03-21_12-37-03-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aarif\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/947\/2025\/03\/2025-03-21_12-37-03-1024x1009.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aarif\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/947\/2025\/03\/2025-03-21_12-37-03-768x757.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aarif\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/947\/2025\/03\/2025-03-21_12-37-03.jpg 1506w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>Ahmed Arif is a Professor of Epidemiology and director of the Ph.D. programs in <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.charlotte.edu\/academic-programs\/graduate-programs\/phd-epidemiology\">Epidemiology<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.charlotte.edu\/academic-programs\/graduate-programs\/phd-public-health-sciences\">Public\u00a0Health Sciences<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/ech.charlotte.edu\/\">Department of Epidemiology and Community Health<\/a>.\u00a0 He has a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Texas, School of Public Health at Houston.\u00a0 Ahmed&#8217;s research area of expertise is occupational and environmental epidemiology. His current research interests include studying occupational risk factors of mental illnesses, occupational lung diseases, rare and orphan diseases, and spatial epidemiology.\u00a0 His research has been funded by NIH, NIOSH, and HRSA.<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Research Interest<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group-left\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-dir-research-interest field-type-text-long field-label-above\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">Occupational and environmental epidemiology, Spatial epidemiology, Chronic disease epidemiology, Population-based health surveys, Neuromuscular disorders, Epidemiology of rare diseases, and health disparities.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-dir-teaching-specialty field-type-text-long field-label-above\">\n<div class=\"field-label\">\n<h3>Teaching Specialty<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Epidemiology, Public Health Data Analysis, Health Surveys, Epidemiology Methods<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<div class=\"group-footer\"><\/div>\n<div><a style=\"vertical-align: top\" href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0237-9937\" target=\"orcid.widget\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 1em;margin-right: .5em\" src=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/orcid_16x16.png\" alt=\"ORCID iD icon\" \/>orcid.org\/0000-0002-0237-9937<\/a><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aarif\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/947\/2018\/10\/ORCID.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-126 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aarif\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/947\/2018\/10\/ORCID-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aarif\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/947\/2018\/10\/ORCID-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aarif\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/947\/2018\/10\/ORCID-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/aarif\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/947\/2018\/10\/ORCID.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 132px) 100vw, 132px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"group-left\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed Arif is a Professor of Epidemiology and director of the Ph.D. programs in Epidemiology and Public\u00a0Health Sciences in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Health.\u00a0 He has a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Texas, School of Public Health at Houston.\u00a0 Ahmed&#8217;s research area of expertise is occupational and environmental epidemiology. 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