Category Archives: Injury

Where Do Older Pedestrians Experience a Risk of Being Killed in a Motor Vehicle Crash?

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Built Environment and Health

Our newest paper just came out in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society and shows that across the US, pedestrian fatalities from motor vehicle crashes among older adults cluster around senior centers, community centers, libraries, pharmacies/drug stores, and healthcare/hospital/health services. … Continue reading →

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Tree Canopy Cover Linked to Lower Risk of Pedestrian Falls

Posted on October 15, 2025 by Built Environment and Health

Our latest research, just published online in the American Journal of Epidemiology, suggests that higher levels of tree canopy cover helps prevent injurious pedestrian falls. The research found that during summer months, locations on streets and sidewalks where pedestrians fell … Continue reading →

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Expanding the BEH Research Portfolio

Posted on October 9, 2025 by Built Environment and Health

This summer we had the good fortune to start working with Emergent BioSolutions and have recently completed our first round of deliverables: an abstract accepted to the American Public Health Association (APHA) conference; and a paper on new methods to … Continue reading →

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Pedestrian Falls and Alcohol Use

Posted on January 30, 2025 by Built Environment and Health

Our recent paper highlights an often-overlooked aspect of pedestrian safety: the role alcohol and drug use play in falls that occur outdoors, particularly on streets and sidewalks. We used data from the National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS), which … Continue reading →

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Pedestrian Injury Research

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Built Environment and Health

Our work on pedestrian safety is an extension of our work on how urban design can be used to support engagement in pedestrian activity and physical activity. As we have built our portfolio of pedestrian injury research, we have come … Continue reading →

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Mr. Robot Hallucinates: Using ChatGPT-4 to Analyze Unstructured Clinical Notes in Electronic Medical Records

Posted on August 14, 2024 by Built Environment and Health

The Columbia Population Research Center’s Computing and Methods Core has been developing a series of research methods use cases for Large Language Model generative AI tools, largely focusing on ChatGPT-4.  Our first case study was just published in JAMA Network … Continue reading →

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Falls prevention focuses on indoor falls, but outdoor falls are just as severe.

Posted on August 13, 2024 by Built Environment and Health

Continuing our work on pedestrian falls we just published a paper in Injury Epidemiology focused on describing the clinical severity of injurious falls, distinguishing between falls that occur indoors and those that occur outdoors.  While falls prevention guidelines focus on … Continue reading →

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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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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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Registry Data in Injury Research: Study Designs and Interpretation

Posted on March 6, 2023 by Built Environment and Health

We recently published a paper in Current Epidemiology Reports on the use of registry data in injury epidemiology. Injury data are frequently captured in registries that form a census of 100% of known cases that meet specified inclusion criteria. We … Continue reading →

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