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Like most researchers investigating neighborhood determinants of health, we are excited that both government and the private sector are making more and more spatially located data available. But even as new data sources allow us to characterize study subjects’ environments … Continue reading →

The Science of Cities blog over at NEXTCITY.org featured the CANVAS system and our work developing methods to conduct virtual neighborhood audits. In the article NEXYCITY.org’s Henry Grabar describes his experience using CANVAS to collect neighborhood audit data on four … Continue reading →

Today the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the AIA Foundation, and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), named Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health and Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation as charter members of the AIA Design … Continue reading →

Latino USA, which is broadcast on NPR, did a story about our research findings on Hispanic immigrant women’s perspectives on healthy food and local neighborhood food access.  Our research used in-depth, hour long interviews to gather data on these women’s … Continue reading →

A lot of us in the neighborhood health effects field create or use neighborhood contextual measures that are aggregations of population data from the Census or other large social surveys. For instance, common measures of neighborhood level socio-economic status, such … Continue reading →

Preventive Medicine just published our paper on neighborhood park access and BMI among residents of New York City.  These analyses were part of our ongoing work the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to analyze their health … Continue reading →

Andrew Rundle presented recent work by BEH on food environments in New York City at the New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College’s event “Food Policy for Breakfast: Food Policy Research in NYC- What do we know? Where … Continue reading →

A video feed from the NIEHS Virtual Obesity Forum has been posted to YouTube. Questions for the discussion panel were sent into NIEHS by email, text and Twitter. The discussion covers a lot of topics related to obesity including, neighborhood … Continue reading →

Dr. Rundle will be speaking at the NIEHS Virtual Forum: Childhood Obesity and the Environment on Nov 29th at 2pm (http://bit.ly/obesityforum). Dr. Rundle will be answering questions about childhood obesity and exposures to air pollution and phthalates, you can read … Continue reading →

The Mailman School of Public Health web site just posted more information about the TEDMED Great Challenges Program and a Q&A about physical activity.