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Welcoming Dirk Kinsey to the Team
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
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
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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Registry Data in Injury Research: Study Designs and Interpretation
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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Yoosun Park wins 2023 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize
Our own Yoosun Park, and co-author Michael Reisch, were just awarded the 2023 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize for their article “To ‘Elevate, Humanize, Christianize, Americanize’: Social Work, White Supremacy, and the Americanization Movement, 1880–1930,” which appears in the December … Continue reading
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Mobile Phone-Based Neighborhood Audits
We recently published a paper describing our efforts to adapt street audit strategies for use in a large informal community, Rio das Pedras (RdP) located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. We developed a smartphone-based systematic observation protocol to gather street-level … Continue reading
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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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Urban Design to Support Walking and Health
JAMA just published an editorial co-written by, 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 et al., that … Continue reading
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Maintaining Human Subject’s Protections in Neighborhood Health Effects Research
We recently published a commentary in the American Journal of Public Health describing the concerns we have for protecting study subject anonymity with the use of online geographic and data tools in neighborhood health effects research. Examples of neighborhood data available … Continue reading
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