Research
The Spatial Health Lab is currently conducting research in the following areas:
PURE-AIR
PURE-AIR is a NIH funded study that is examining the associations between household and outdoor air pollution and cardiovascular and respiratory disease within the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiological (PURE) study.
Healthy Built Environments
Our research focuses on creating methods to improve measurement of built environment conditions important to health, understanding the pathways and interactions with other environmental and individual exposures, and examining associations with a wide-variety of health outcomes.
Environmental Exposure Assessment
A primary goal of our research is to create new exposure assessment methods that can be applied to large-scale epidemiological studies to better understand the relationships between environmental exposures and human health.
Air Pollution
We are conducting several research studies examining air pollution exposures and associated human health impacts. These studies are conducted throughout the United States and globally.
Urban Green Space
Our research focuses on enhancing green space exposure assessments, integrating green space measures with other potential spatially correlated built environment factors (e.g. air pollution) and exploring associations with health outcomes.
Climate Change
Few empirical studies have examined the health effects of climate change in middle and low-income countries, for the most vulnerable populations, and for chronic diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease (CVD).