What does it matter if you live on 2nd Street or 6th Avenue?

Does how you get from A to B affect your health?

What’s this about?

The Built Environment & Health (BEH) project is an interdisciplinary program of research at Columbia University. Led by epidemiologist Andrew Rundle, BEH uses spatial data to examine the implications of the built environment, including land use, public transit, and housing, for physical activity, diet, obesity, and other aspects of health. With a focus on New York City, BEH research will inform public policy to promote health in the city and metropolitan area. BEH is affiliated with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program at Columbia.

Media Kit

Essential Facts of the Built Environment and Health Project

The BEH media kit will be the place where journalists and program representatives alike can download the essentials for reporting on the project, in a useful format. Stay tuned!

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People

Judith Jacobson

Investigator

Judith Jacobson is an associate professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health. She studies cancer, asthma, and the role of behavior in health.
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Christine Williams

Investigator

Christine L. Williams is Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Children’s Cardiovascular Health Center at Columbia University.
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Articles

Observational coding of Urban Design

Research Briefs

The BEH group is using observational measures of urban design to validate digital measures that will be introduced into analyses that examine the association between the built environment and physical activity or obesity
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Spatial Accessibility in New York City

New Projects

The BEH research group is developing a suite of new projects that examine how spatial accessibility—proximity to basic retail and services—varies across New York City neighborhoods. Spatial accessibility is significant for health because it may promote pedestrian travel.
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Working Group Promotes Interdisciplinary Research on Population Health

Funded Projects

In the summer of 2004, the Health & Society Scholars program began a new Working Groups program to promote interdisciplinary research on population health. One of the first to be funded was the working group on physical activity, diet, and obesity.
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Announcements

Race, Poverty, and Spatial Accessibility in New York City

New Grant

With new funding from the National Science Foundation, the BEH group will use data for New York City to describe how neighborhood access to everyday retail and services is patterned by race and poverty, and to examine change in these patterns over the past decade. The research will consider how gentrification, immigration, and public policy have affected spatial accessibility.
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Spatial Equity in New York City

Thesis Wins Award

Marnie Purciel, now a Research Associate at BEH, graduated in May 2007 from Columbia University with dual master’s degrees in Urban Planning and Public Health. Her thesis, “Spatial Equity in New York City Neighborhoods” received the Charles Abrams award for the best quantitative thesis in the Urban Planning program this year.
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Built Environment and Health Project

Columbia University
International Affairs Building

420 West 118th Street
8th Floor, mail code 3355
New York, New York 10027

Tel. 212 - 854 - 7813
beh-project@columbia.edu

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