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PubMed Feed- Navigating Dual-Harm: Integrating Self- and Other-Harm Into Public Health Inquiry
- Leveraging spatiotemporal Bayesian analysis to unravel polysubstance use and overdose risk: Opportunities and challenges
- Dietary intake of beta-cryptoxanthin, but not other carotenoids, is associated with less frequent anxiety symptoms in U.S. adults: A cross-sectional analysis of NHANES, 2007-2012
- Inconsistent consistency: evaluating the well-defined intervention assumption in applied epidemiological research
- Using simulations to explore the conditions under which "true" dose-response relationships are detectable for environmental exposures: polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and birthweight: a case study
- Perinatal discrimination and maternal depressive symptoms associated with infant development in African American families
- Neighborhood-level adversity and inflammation among sexual minority men living with HIV
- Human genomic regions of systemic interindividual epigenetic variation are implicated in neurodevelopmental and metabolic disorders
- A scoping review on the methods used to assess health-related quality of life and disability burden in evaluations of road safety interventions
- Building a Culture of Health Through the Built Environment: Impact of a Cluster Randomized Trial Remediating Vacant and Abandoned Property on Health Mindsets
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