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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
- The COVID-19 Pandemic as a Threat Multiplier for Childhood Health Disparities: Evidence from St. Louis, MO
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- Longitudinal association between walkability and physical activity in twins
- Addictive Screen Use Trajectories and Suicidal Behaviors, Suicidal Ideation, and Mental Health in US Youths
- Neighborhood environmental vulnerability factors strongly drove COVID-19 fatality and excess all-cause mortality in New York City, while long-term air pollutant associations were weak and varied
- Cannabis Legalization and Opioid Use Disorder in Veterans Health Administration Patients
- Composing authorship teams for health equity: an introduction to the health equity research production model
- Interaction Between <em>Apolipoprotein L1</em> Genetic Risk and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status for Kidney Outcomes in a United States Cohort
- The Effectiveness of Bubble-Blowing as a Distraction Technique During Pediatric Intravenous Cannulation: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Measuring mobility in HIV research in sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review
- Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets
- Stemming the Tide of the US Overdose Crisis: How Can We Leverage the Power of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence?
Category Archives: Physical Disorder
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
How neighborhoods and infrastructure can impact HIV transmission among Black sexual minority men
Individual risky behaviors (ex. condomless sex, multiple partners, drug use) have long been a focus of HIV research and intervention strategies for sexual minority men (SMM). However, focusing on the individual level obscures the effects of broader societal influences and … Continue reading
Measuring Neighborhood Physical Disorder: Man on the Street verses Google Street View
Following is a post by Steve Mooney on a recently published paper. Dr. Mooney is an alum of the Doctoral Program in Epidemiology and the Social Epi Cluster. We’ve done a lot with Street View at the Built Environment and Health … Continue reading
Physical Activity Among Older Adults in NYC and Neighborhood Physical Disorder
Steve Mooney (Ex-Cluster Doc student and now Post-Doc at University of Washington), Magda Cerda (Cluster faculty alum) and Andrew Rundle recently published an article in the Journal of Urban Health on the link between neighborhood physical disorder and physical activity … 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
Neighborhood Social Environment Contributions to Supporting Walking
JAMA just published an editorial co-written by Cluster faculty member, Andrew Rundle, entitled “Can Walkable Urban Design Play a Role in Reducing the Incidence of Obesity-Related Conditions?”. The editorial provides a perspective on a study published in JAMA by Creatore … Continue reading
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