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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.

Dr. Rundle is part of the TEDMED Great Challenges Team for the Challenge of Promoting Active Lifestyles.  Through the Great Challenges Program TEDMED plans to start a series of conversations on how can we better understand complex, widespread health and … Continue reading →

Each year several Masters in Public Health students do there practicums working on BEH projects.  This year we had Christopher “Toph” Allen, Nicolia Eldred-Skemp and Tanya Kaufman working with us.  Toph assessed the accuracy of cell-phone based GPS systems for … Continue reading →

Built Environment and Health (BEH) Research Group is an interdisciplinary program of research at Columbia University. Led by epidemiologist Andrew Rundle, BEH uses spatial data to examine the impact of the built environment, including land use, public transit, and housing … Continue reading →