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- Overflowing Disparities: Examining the Availability of Litter Bins in New York City
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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
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
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
Posted in Anxiety, Depression, Mental Health, Smoking
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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
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