Author Archives: Built Environment and Health

Alcohol involvement in cyclist injuries

Posted on July 8, 2024 by Built Environment and Health

We are expanding our work on the link between nightlife establishments, nightlife districts and pedestrian injury from motor vehicles to include cyclist injuries.  Our first paper on cyclist injuries compared estimates of the proportion of cyclists injured while under the … Continue reading →

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The Burden of Pedestrian Falls on Streets and Sidewalks in the U.S.

Posted on January 30, 2024 by Built Environment and Health

After doing substantial work documenting the links between greater neighborhood walkability and higher engagement in pedestrian activity and reduced weight gain, in recent years we have launched research projects on pedestrian safety.  In new work just published in the Journal … Continue reading →

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Higher Neighborhood Walkability is Associated with Lower Risk of Obesity Related Cancers

Posted on December 23, 2023 by Built Environment and Health

In collaboration with colleagues at the NYU Women’s Health Study we recently published analyses showing that higher neighborhood walkability is associated with lower risk of obesity related cancers.  Fourteen thousand women were recruited into the study between 1985 and 1991 … Continue reading →

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Eliza Kinsey launches new research on addressing food insecurity among chronic kidney disease patients

Posted on December 23, 2023 by Built Environment and Health

Not quite about the built environment, but BEH member Eliza Kinsey was just awarded a grant from the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics to test the feasibility, acceptability, and likely effect of a produce prescription intervention … Continue reading →

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Welcoming Dirk Kinsey to the Team

Posted on October 23, 2023 by Built Environment and Health

Dirk Kinsey has joined the BEH team as an Associate Research Scientist. Dirk Kinsey is a health geographer whose research and teaching focus on disparities in health, well-being, and equity. His work applies feminist and critical race epistemologies to understanding … Continue reading →

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Welcoming Katie Burford to the team

Posted on August 15, 2023 by Built Environment and Health

Katie Burford has joined the BEH team as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the T32 Program for Advanced Training in Environmental Health and Data Science at the Mailman School of Public Health. Katie is broadly interested in physical activity, pedestrian safety, … Continue reading →

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A flexible matching strategy for matched nested case-control studies

Posted on August 6, 2023 by Built Environment and Health

Continuing our work on developing epidemiology methods we recently published a paper in Annals of Epidemiology describing a new approach to matching, that we call “flex matching”, in nested case-control studies. We show that flex matching prevents over matching, which … Continue reading →

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Cumulative experience of neighborhood walkability over a decade and body mass index and waist circumference.

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Built Environment and Health

We just published new work in the American Journal of Epidemiology on the beneficial, cumulative effect of living in neighborhoods with higher walkability on body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference.  In collaboration with the REGARDS team and Drexel’s Urban … Continue reading →

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Neighborhood Food Environment and Birth Weight Outcomes in New York City

Posted on June 13, 2023 by Built Environment and Health

Completing our trilogy of papers on neighborhood built environments and pregnancy and birth outcomes, we published a paper in the June issue of JAMA Network Open showing links between neighborhood food environments and birth weight in NYC. Babies born either … Continue reading →

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Causal Inference with Case-Only Studies in Injury Epidemiology Research.

Posted on June 1, 2023 by Built Environment and Health

We recently published a paper in Current Epidemiology Reports describing how the case-only design is commonly misinterpreted in injury epidemiology.  Due to the availability of registries and Emergency Department medical record databases, case-only studies are common in the injury epidemiology … Continue reading →

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