Health Policy Research Seminar: Sameed Khatana, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
10:00am - 11:00am • CCB 08-031, 8th Floor, 3600 Civic Center Blvd. (Note: Virtual attendees can join by accessing this link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95740259034.)
2026-05-14 10:00:00 2026-05-14 11:00:00 America/New_York Health Policy Research Seminar: Sameed Khatana, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Thank you to our co-sponsor, the Penn Center for Public Health! Topic: “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Cardiovascular Health.” Food insecurity has been associated with a number of adverse health outcomes, including cardiovascular mortality. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest food-purchasing assistance program and is strongly associated with lower food insecurity. How SNAP impacts health outcomes is less clear, but there is growing evidence that it likely contributes to improved health. Dr. Khatana will discuss recently published and ongoing work, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, that uses different causal inference techniques to identify the impact of SNAP on population and individual-level health outcomes. Sameed Khatana, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and a physician at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He also serves as the Associate Director of the Penn Cardiovascular Outcomes, Quality, and Evaluative Research (CAVOQER) Center. Dr. Khatana’s research interests include understanding the impact of socioeconomic and environmental factors on cardiovascular health as well as the quantitative evaluation of the health impact of public policies. He has received grant support from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the American Heart Association. His research has been published in high impact medical journals including JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, and Circulation and has been covered by multiple news outlets including CNN, Reuters, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. CCB 08-031, 8th Floor, 3600 Civic Center Blvd. (Note: Virtual attendees can join by accessing this link: https://upenn.zoom.us/j/95740259034.) Penn Medical EthicsThank you to our co-sponsor, the Penn Center for Public Health!
Topic: “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and Cardiovascular Health.”
Food insecurity has been associated with a number of adverse health outcomes, including cardiovascular mortality. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest food-purchasing assistance program and is strongly associated with lower food insecurity. How SNAP impacts health outcomes is less clear, but there is growing evidence that it likely contributes to improved health. Dr. Khatana will discuss recently published and ongoing work, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, that uses different causal inference techniques to identify the impact of SNAP on population and individual-level health outcomes.
Sameed Khatana, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and a physician at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He also serves as the Associate Director of the Penn Cardiovascular Outcomes, Quality, and Evaluative Research (CAVOQER) Center. Dr. Khatana’s research interests include understanding the impact of socioeconomic and environmental factors on cardiovascular health as well as the quantitative evaluation of the health impact of public policies. He has received grant support from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the American Heart Association. His research has been published in high impact medical journals including JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, and Circulation and has been covered by multiple news outlets including CNN, Reuters, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.