![Asia air pollution map](/sites/health.oregonstate.edu/files/styles/fluid_webp/public/asia-air-pollution-800px.jpg.webp?itok=KoFirf-B)
Spatial Health Lab
Spatial Health Lab
Research on Health and Place
The Spatial Health Lab carries out diverse research related to health and place.
We seek to apply innovative study designs, new technologies and data science approaches to understand how environmental conditions influence human health and translate this information into effective policy and prevention activities.
![Asia air pollution map](/sites/health.oregonstate.edu/files/styles/fluid_webp/public/asia-air-pollution-800px.jpg.webp?itok=KoFirf-B)
PURE-AIR
PURE-AIR is examining household and outdoor air pollution and cardiovascular and respiratory disease within the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiological (PURE) study, including over 170,000 adults in 800 communities across 27 countries.
![tree streetscape](/sites/health.oregonstate.edu/files/styles/fluid_webp/public/tree-cityscape-800px.jpg.webp?itok=91hvMAZI)
Healthy Built Environments
Our research focuses on understanding the pathways and interactions between built environment-related exposures (e.g. air pollution, green space, walkability) and a wide-range of health outcomes (e.g. birth outcomes, cardiovascular disease, mental health).
![Air monitor](/sites/health.oregonstate.edu/files/styles/fluid_webp/public/air-monitor-800px.jpg.webp?itok=BTuY-wh1)
Environmental Exposure Assessment
A primary goal of our research is to develop new environmental exposure assessment methods to apply to large health studies. These include the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), measurement methods and big data approaches.