Population, Health, and Environment
How do features of the natural, economic, and policy environments impact the health of a population? And how do the dynamics of population change affect the environment? Researchers at CPC explore these and other questions using a variety of tools and methods, from qualitative data collection and in-depth one-on-one interviews to combining machine learning with high resolution satellite imagery to develop fine-grained measures of the contexts in which individuals and families operate. This work helps us understand how and why population change goes hand in hand with environmental change, each affecting the health of the other.
Associated Projects
Add Health Epigenome Resource: Life course stressors and epigenomic modifications in adulthood
The overall goals of this project are to investigate the influence of life course psychosocial stressors on DNA methylation and gene expression that may influence cardiometabolic health and depression in a US representative study of young adults. The findings from this study will have significant…
Add Health GWAS Data: User Support and Research Tools to Enable Widespread Access
This project is developing tools to enable widespread access to and use of genome-wide association study (GWAS) data among respondents in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). The intent is to make Add Health GWAS data more easily accessible, straightforward…
Add Health Parent Study: Phase I
The Add Health Parent Study (2015-2017), gathered social, behavioral, and health survey data in 2015-2017 on a probability sample of the Add Health parents who were originally interviewed in 1995. Data for 2,013 Wave I parents, ranging in age from 50-80 years and representing 2,244…
After the flood: Strategies to prevent malaria epidemics caused by severe flooding
The impact of climate change, including the increased frequency of weather extremes such as flooding, on the incidence of malaria and other vector-borne diseases is an issue of substantial public health importance. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop effective mitigation and control strategies.…
Applying a life course approach to assess the impact of neighborhood and interpersonal discrimination on allostatic load
Abstract Allostatic load, which is characterized by the dysregulation of physiological activity across multiple systems in the body, has been linked to an increased risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. However, the prevalence of allostatic load is not equally distributed…
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