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Does living in a walkable neighborhood make you walk more?
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Gerontological Society of America (GSA) 2021 Annual Scientific Meeting
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About Publications Group
Our team has a robust history of publications across Public Health, Urban Planning, Geography, Policy, Sociology, and Medicine.
One of our highlight publications summarizes the work we have done on neighborhoods and cardiovascular disease:
Roux, A. V. D., Mujahid, M. S., Hirsch, J. A., Moore, K., & Moore, L. V. (2016). The impact of neighborhoods on CV risk. Global heart, 11(3), 353-363.
For more papers, visit our publications page or see some of our spotlighted papers here!
Ana V. Diez Roux, MD PhD MPH
Biography
Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PHD, MPH, is the Dana and David Dornsife Dean and Distinguished University Professor of Epidemiology at the Dornsife School of Public Health and Director of the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative. Originally trained as a
Ana V. Diez Roux, MD PhD MPH
Dana and David Dornsife Dean and Distinguished University Professor
Urban Health Collaborative
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Drexel University
Biography
Ana V. Diez Roux, MD, PHD, MPH, is the Dana and David Dornsife Dean and Distinguished University Professor of Epidemiology at the Dornsife School of Public Health and Director of the Drexel Urban Health Collaborative. Originally trained as a pediatrician in her native Buenos Aires, she completed public health training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Before joining Drexel University, she served on the faculties of Columbia University and the University of Michigan, where she was Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health.
Dr. Diez Roux is internationally known for her research on the social determinants of population health and the study of how neighborhoods affect health. Her work on neighborhood health effects has been highly influential in the policy debate on population health and its determinants. Her research areas include social epidemiology and health disparities, environmental health effects, urban health, psychosocial factors, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, social environment-gene interactions, and the use of multilevel methods and complex systems approaches in population health. She has led large NIH and foundation funded research and training programs in the United States and in collaboration with various institutions in Latin America and is currently Principal Investigator of the Wellcome Trust funded SALURBAL (Salud Urbana en América Latina) study.