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- Overflowing Disparities: Examining the Availability of Litter Bins in New York City
- In New York City, pandemic policing reproduced familiar patterns of racial disparities
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PubMed Feed- Application of Innovation Tournament methodology to inform de-implementation strategies: lessons learned in addressing mammography overscreening in older women
- A <em>Cautionary Tale</em> on Integrating Studies with Disparate Outcome Measures for Causal Inference
- Longitudinal Transitions between Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms and Associations with Substance Use among US Young Adults, 2016-2023
- On the cross-generational expression of psychiatric disorders: Commentary on Caspi et al. (2026)
- Riesz Representers for the Rest of Us
- Restrictive abortion policy climate is associated with increased depression symptoms among women in the United States: Findings from a 25-year longitudinal study
- Adrenarche Is Not Pubarche-Time to Stop Conflating Terms
- Unequal paths to care: How region, rurality, and deprivation determine transport to verified trauma centers among the critically injured
- Food insecurity as an underexplored pathway linking ethnic enclave contexts and anxiety among Dominicans in the United States
- Sleep Duration Among US Adolescents, 1991-2023
Author Archives: Andrew
Throwback Thursday: Neighborhood Income and DNA Damage from Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Prostate Tissue.
Throwback Thursday posts will revisit previously published articles and provide results of additional analyses that didn’t fit within the Journal’s word limits or re-imagine how the underlying data in the paper can be presented graphically. “Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status Modifies the … Continue reading
“Stress and the City” at the German House for Research and Innovation
Andrew Rundle will be speaking at the “Stress and the City” event at the German House for Research and Innovation at the United Nations Plaza. The event is November 2nd from 6:30 to 8:30 and they would like an RSVP. The … Continue reading
Posted in Event, Urban Health
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Measuring the Ecosystem of Business and Retail Establishments
Gina Lovasi and colleagues just published a manuscript detailing work to clean and code data on all NYC metropolitan area businesses over the period 1990-2010. Their goal was to use twenty years of business establishment data to characterize changes in neighborhoods … Continue reading
Posted in Economic, Neighborhood Environments
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New Work on Stigma Among Those Labeled “At-Risk” for Psychosis
Cluster faculty member, Lawrence Yang and colleagues, just completed the first study to compare the stigmatizing effects of symptoms of schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders to the stigmatizing effects of being labelled “at-risk” for these conditions and seeking help at … Continue reading
Posted in Labelling, Mental Health, Stigma
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Info-Graphix: Health Disparities in NYC
We just posted the beginnings of a new slide deck that shows disparities in health conditions by education level among residents of New York City. The NYCHANES data were mined to plot the prevalence of Hypertension, Diabetes and Hyper-cholestriamia by … Continue reading
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A New Project to Study Childhood Adversity and Cardiovascular Health in Puerto Rican Young Adults
Cluster faculty member Shakira Suglia was recently awarded an NIH grant to study the effects of childhood adversity on health outcomes among young Puerto Rican adults from the South Bronx and from San Juan, Puerto Rico. While these two groups of … Continue reading
Posted in Childhood Adversity, Ethnicity
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Environmental Justice: Social Disparities in Exposures to Environmental Pollutants
Location, location, location. Anyone who has been in the real estate market knows that location is one of the most important factors in determining property value. But, a large body of evidence indicates that property value is not the only … Continue reading
Info-Graphic: Mortality Attributable to Social Factors
We just posted a graph using data from Galea 2011 and Minino 2002 to compare deaths attributable to social factors verses listed “causes” of death in 2000. The data show that deaths attributable to social factors are similar in number to deaths … Continue reading
Why are kids reporting that they prefer more dangerous and risky activities than they did 30 years ago?
Katherine Keyes weighs in on her latest paper describing 30 year trends in adolescent risk preference. The graph below shows the yearly trend in a trait termed ‘risk preference’, spanning the last 30 years among adolescents in the United States. … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Risk Preference
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Health Insurance and Access to Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the greatest contributor to morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries, and these diseases are disproportionately experienced by those in the most disadvantaged circumstances. In line with initiatives to “close the gap” on several health … Continue reading