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Category Archives: Safety
Where Do Older Pedestrians Experience a Risk of Being Killed in a Motor Vehicle Crash?
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
Posted in Active Transport, Adults, Health Care Access, Injury, Safety, Transportation, Walkability
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Tree Canopy Cover Linked to Lower Risk of Pedestrian Falls
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
Expanding the BEH Research Portfolio
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
Posted in Injury, Methods, Pedestrian Injury, Safety, Transportation
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Pedestrian Injury Research
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
Posted in Active Transport, Alcohol, Bike Share, CANVAS, Injury, Pedestrian Injury, Physical Activity, Safety, Street View, Transportation, Urban Design, Walkability
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Increases in Micromobility Injuries in the US: Implications for Public Health
Micromobility – bicycles, E-bikes, E-scooters, and hoverboards – has experienced immense growth in recent years, and we just published a paper in the first look section of AJPH exploring how this growth parallels the rise in electric micromobility injuries and … Continue reading
Posted in Bike Share, Bikeshare, Safety, Transportation, Urban Design
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Mr. Robot Hallucinates: Using ChatGPT-4 to Analyze Unstructured Clinical Notes in Electronic Medical Records
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
Posted in Active Transport, Injury, Methods, Safety, Tools
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Falls prevention focuses on indoor falls, but outdoor falls are just as severe.
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
Posted in Injury, Pedestrian Injury, Physical Activity, Safety, Walkability
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The Burden of Pedestrian Falls on Streets and Sidewalks in the U.S.
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
Causal Inference with Case-Only Studies in Injury Epidemiology Research.
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
Posted in Injury, Methods, Safety, Teaching
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Newly Funded Work on Pedestrian Injury
We have recently been funded by NIH to conduct a four-year study of how urban design, the locations of alcohol selling establishments, night life districts and locations of services for the homeless influence pedestrian fatality risk. We will be conducting … Continue reading
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