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Author Archives: Built Environment and Health
Neighborhood Conditions Influence the Ability of Diabetics to Control Their Blood Sugar
In collaboration with researchers from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene we recently published an article in the American Journal of Epidemiology showing that diabetics living in neighborhoods with more advantaged economic environments, greater walkability and … Continue reading
Teaching Epidemiology to Undergraduate Students
Undergraduate programs in public health are proliferating (and see here), and increasing numbers of undergraduate students are receiving training in epidemiology. James Stark, a BEH alum and now a Director of Epidemiology at Pfizer and Adjunct Professor at NYU’s College of … Continue reading
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The Built Environment and Health Research Group is looking for Post-Docs.
We are looking for candidates to fill a post-doctoral researcher position at the Department of Epidemiology at the Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health. The post-doc position will be at Columbia University, but we are a multi-disciplinary team of faculty … Continue reading
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When geographic proximity and access to medical services is not enough
Although many health determinants are outside of the health care sector, quality health care is crucial to population health. Recently, we included a look at perceptions of local health care as part of a community needs assessment (https://beh.columbia.edu/community-needs-assessment/) in Rio … Continue reading
Man on the Street or Google Street View to Measure Neighborhood Physical Disorder
We’ve done a lot with Street View at the BEH, and we think the CANVAS application we developed to help teams do reliable and efficient virtual audits works pretty well. But we never really knew what we might be missing … Continue reading
Posted in CANVAS, Mehtods, Physical Disorder, Street View
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Webinar Online – Urban Informatics: Studying How Urban Design Influences Health in New York City
Dr. Rundle’s March 2nd webinar for the ISBNPA webinar has been posted online at ISBNPA’s web site (Here and embedded below). His talk covered different approaches to assessing neighborhood walkability and the link between urban design and resident’s physical activity using New York City … Continue reading
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Webinar – Urban Informatics: Studying How Urban Design Influences Health in New York City
On Thursday March 2nd at 3pm EST, Dr. Rundle will give a webinar entitled “Urban Informatics: Studying How Urban Design Influences Health in New York City” for the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. You can register for … Continue reading
Posted in Accelerometers, Active Transport, GPS, Physical Activity, Walkability
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Neighborhood Physical Disorder and Physical Activity Among Older Adults in NYC
Through the years, we have done a fair amount of work to collect and validate measures of neighborhood physical disorder – urban deterioration – using our CANVAS/Google Street View system. Neighborhood disorder is controversial construct and measure, not only because … Continue reading
Commandments for Variable Naming and Data Management
As we launched another multifaceted geographic data linkage study our multi-institution team, that includes researchers at Drexel University, Columbia University and the University of Washington, has developed a set of commandments to streamline and harmonize our data management, variable naming … Continue reading
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JAMA on Walking and Walkability
Following up on its two recent articles about neighborhood walkability, including an editorial co-authored by Andrew Rundle, JAMA today published a Medical News and Perspectives article entitled “As Walking Movement Grows, Neighborhood Walkability Gains Attention”. The article notes the various … Continue reading
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