Author Archives: Andrew

Launching EpiSimulations.net

Cluster Doctoral students, Andrew Ratanatharathorn and Stephen Mooney and Cluster Faculty member, Andrew Rundle, recently launched EpiSimulations.net, a suite of tools for demonstrating and modeling methodological issues in epidemiology.  The site uses R Shiny to create interactive simulations that allow … Continue reading

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13th Place and Health Conference

Gina Lovasi presented recent urban health work at the “Evidence for Action in Policy and Programs for Urban Health” plenary session of Place and Health, the 13th International Conference on Urban Health in San Francisco.  Gina described two community health … Continue reading

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Who are smokers today? Implications for public health and research

Kerry Keyes and colleagues recently published a new article looking at changes in the relationship between smoking and psychiatric disorders across successive birth cohorts in the twentieth century.  They find that as rates of smoking decreased through the latter half … Continue reading

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IPV in late adolescence and young adulthood and subsequent cardiovascular risk in adulthood.

Shakira Suglia and colleagues recently published an article describing the relation between Intimate partner violence (IPV) in adolescence and young adulthood and cardiovascular risk in adulthood. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) the … Continue reading

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Gender-Based Violence and Mood/Anxiety and Substance Use Disorders

In a recent paper, Keyes and colleagues estimated the lifetime prevalence for women experiencing Gender-Based Violence (GBV) as being 25%.  Women who had experienced GBV had 3.6 and 2.5 times the odds, respectively, of meeting lifetime mood/anxiety and substance use disorder criteria. The … Continue reading

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The Race of Perpetrators of Mass Shootings Can Affect the Public’s Perceptions About Racial and Ethnic Groups.

Larry Yang and colleagues just published new work showing how the race or ethnicity of perpetrators of mass shootings can affect the public’s perceptions about racial and ethnic groups.  If an individual hearing or reading about the shooting attributes the … Continue reading

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#Schizophrenia: Use and misuse on Twitter

Stigmatization of individuals with mental illness is a clinical and public health concern and the prevention of stigma is an evolving research field.  Larry Yang and colleagues recently published research showing that social media can provide new avenues for the … Continue reading

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Social Epi Radio: Show Tunes

Musical theater frequently deals with themes of social disparities and hardship – for instance Oliver or Les Misérables.  Lisa Bates and her students in the Department of Epidemiology’s Social Epidemiology Course compiled a list of performances and themes in musicals … Continue reading

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Measuring Pedestrian Activity using GPS Data

New work led by Gina Lovasi and Steve Mooney was published in the American Journal of Public Health looking at the effects of building density and tree canopy cover in NYC on the accuracy of GPS data for measuring distances … Continue reading

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Neighborhood Physical Disorder Maps

The Journal of Maps recently published an article co-authored by Andrew Rundle, Gina Lovasi and Stephen Mooney and others, showing a high resolution map of neighborhood physical disorder in New York City. Physical disorder – the deterioration of urban spaces … Continue reading

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