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I'm an urban planner by training, but interested in all of the ways that the places we live, work, and play affect our health.
It's often said that your ZIP code matters more for your health than your genetic code. I'm committed to research that helps us better understand how and why that is, and what we can do to change this for the better.
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Maximizing the promise of citizen science to advance health and prevent disease
Written with colleagues from Dr. Abby King's Citizen Science Initiative, some thoughts on what different kinds of "citizen science" have to offer researchers, participants, and the future of community engagement for health researchers.
Where do U.S. households get their healthy foods?
The second in a series of three papers using the USDA's nationally-representative Food Acquisitions and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) dataset. Individual choices of where to shop and what to buy are interrelated, though a better understanding of this dynamic is needed. In this paper, we assessed relationships between trip, store, and shopper characteristics with the healthfulness of items purchased.
Stress experiences in neighborhood and social environments (SENSE)
In this first-generation project, we developed a methodology to integrate geospatial technology with biometric sensing within a previously developed, evidence-based “citizen science” protocol, called “Our Voice.” The study provides a new perspective on how mixed-methods research designs can capture and merge objective and perceived neighborhood data.
