Category Archives: Economic

Overflowing Disparities: Examining the Availability of Litter Bins in New York City

The 1980s marked the birth of the modern environmental justice movements thanks to civil rights activists’ concerns about the disproportionate placements of landfills in low-income and Black communities. (see our Environmental Justice Spotify playlist here) Similar environmental injustice concerns are … Continue reading

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The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on population mental health: An analysis of GPS and Google search volume data

Catherine Gimbrone and colleagues recently published a paper in the journal PLoS One exploring the effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on population mental health. Using novel data sources that allow for near-real-time analysis of population behavior and thought, they found that … Continue reading

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Hospital Financial Distress and Quality of Care

Catherine Richards, an alum of the Department of Epi’s Masters and Doctoral programs, and colleagues recently published an article in JAMA Surgery showing that women treated at hospitals experiencing financial distress were significantly less likely to receive immediate breast reconstruction surgery after … Continue reading

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Disparities in self-rated health across generations and through the life course

Getting the band back together, Cluster faculty past and present and a Doc student (Link, Susser, March, Kezios, Lovasi, Rundle, and Suglia) just published new work in Social Science and Medicine.  This is the first paper from the Child Health … Continue reading

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Steve Mooney receives Poster Award at Epidemiology Congress of the Americas 2016

Steve Mooney, one of our recently minted PhD’s, won a best poster presentation award at the 2016 Epidemiology Congress of the Americas for his work on the “Neighborhood Environment-Wide Association Study” design. New spatial tools and the expanding availability of … Continue reading

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In the Wrong Place with the Wrong SNP

Social Epi Cluster members Stephen Mooney and Gina Lovasi recently led an investigation into neighborhood and genetic contributions to cardiac arrest risk, finding that about 75% more cardiac arrest cases who had a high-risk genetic variant lived in socioeconomically deprived … Continue reading

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Neighborhood Social Environment and Obesity

Numerous studies have examined the relation between features of the neighborhood built environment and obesity related behaviors or obesity itself, to the extent that Healthy People 2020 includes goals for neighborhood built environment interventions to support physical activity. The neighborhood … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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