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- PhD Epidemiology Columbia University
- Masters Epidemiology Columbia University
- Bachelors Biology Cornell University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Gina Danielle Schellenbaum Lovasi is the Urban Health Collaborative Co-Director and Dornsife Associate Professor of Urban Health at Drexel University. She has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and co-edited the book Urban Public Health: A Research Toolkit for Practice and Impact.
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- Built environments and obesity in disadvantaged populations. (2009) (796)
- Neighborhood Food Environment and Walkability Predict Obesity in New York City (2008) (401)
- Children living in areas with more street trees have lower prevalence of asthma (2008) (295)
- Cigarette smoking is associated with subclinical parenchymal lung disease: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)-lung study. (2009) (221)
- Disparities in Urban Neighborhood Conditions: Evidence from GIS Measures and Field Observation in New York City (2009) (215)
- Air Pollution and Individual and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status: Evidence from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) (2013) (203)
- Neighborhood characteristics and disability in older adults. (2009) (175)
- Association of proximity and density of parks and objectively measured physical activity in the United States: A systematic review. (2015) (175)
- Urban Tree Canopy and Asthma, Wheeze, Rhinitis, and Allergic Sensitization to Tree Pollen in a New York City Birth Cohort (2013) (172)
- Neighborhood safety and green space as predictors of obesity among preschool children from low-income families in New York City. (2013) (167)
- Effect of individual or neighborhood disadvantage on the association between neighborhood walkability and body mass index. (2009) (165)
- Place-focused physical activity research, human agency, and social justice in public health: taking agency seriously in studies of the built environment. (2012) (150)
- Is the Environment Near Home and School Associated with Physical Activity and Adiposity of Urban Preschool Children? (2011) (150)
- Reconsidering Access: Park Facilities and Neighborhood Disamenities in New York City (2011) (145)
- Urban trees, air quality, and asthma: An interdisciplinary review (2019) (131)
- Using built environment characteristics to predict walking for exercise (2008) (110)
- Capturing context: Integrating spatial and social network analyses (2012) (100)
- Steps Forward: Review and Recommendations for Research on Walkability, Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health (2011) (98)
- Neighborhood Walkability and Active Travel (Walking and Cycling) in New York City (2013) (95)
- Disparities in the food environments of New York City public schools. (2010) (91)
- Validity of an ecometric neighborhood physical disorder measure constructed by virtual street audit. (2014) (86)
- Using GPS Data to Study Neighborhood Walkability and Physical Activity. (2016) (79)
- Creating and validating GIS measures of urban design for health research. (2009) (72)
- Association Between Emphysema-like Lung on Cardiac Computed Tomography and Mortality in Persons Without Airflow Obstruction (2014) (65)
- Associations between Body Mass Index and Park Proximity, Size, Cleanliness, and Recreational Facilities (2013) (64)
- Use of Google Street View to Assess Environmental Contributions to Pedestrian Injury. (2016) (62)
- Neighbourhood food environments and body mass index among New York City adults (2013) (60)
- Chlorpyrifos exposure and urban residential environment characteristics as determinants of early childhood neurodevelopment. (2011) (60)
- The impact of neighborhood park access and quality on body mass index among adults in New York City. (2014) (60)
- Body mass index, safety hazards, and neighborhood attractiveness. (2012) (57)
- Association of environmental tobacco smoke exposure in childhood with early emphysema in adulthood among nonsmokers: the MESA-lung study. (2010) (53)
- Per cent emphysema is associated with respiratory and lung cancer mortality in the general population: a cohort study (2016) (53)
- Tracking of Obesity in Childhood into Adulthood: Effects on Body Mass Index and Fat Mass Index at Age 50. (2020) (53)
- At Odds: Concerns Raised by Using Odds Ratios for Continuous or Common Dichotomous Outcomes in Research on Physical Activity and Obesity. (2012) (49)
- Aesthetic Amenities and Safety Hazards Associated with Walking and Bicycling for Transportation in New York City (2013) (48)
- Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Cognitive Function in Late Life. (2016) (47)
- Evaluating options for measurement of neighborhood socioeconomic context: evidence from a myocardial infarction case-control study. (2008) (47)
- Socio-economic status, neighbourhood food environments and consumption of fruits and vegetables in New York City (2013) (46)
- Neighborhood characteristics associated with park use and park-based physical activity among children in low-income diverse neighborhoods in New York City. (2019) (45)
- More neighborhood retail associated with lower obesity among New York City public high school students. (2013) (44)
- Individual- and school-level sociodemographic predictors of obesity among New York City public school children. (2012) (44)
- Comparing a single-stage geocoding method to a multi-stage geocoding method: how much and where do they disagree? (2007) (42)
- Life expectancy and mortality in 363 cities of Latin America (2021) (39)
- Park use preferences and physical activity among ethnic minority children in low-income neighborhoods in New York City (2019) (37)
- Street Audits to Measure Neighborhood Disorder: Virtual or In-Person? (2017) (37)
- Development of a Neighborhood Walkability Index for Studying Neighborhood Physical Activity Contexts in Communities across the U.S. over the Past Three Decades (2019) (36)
- Neighborhood Social Context and Individual Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposures Associated with Child Cognitive Test Scores (2014) (35)
- Angiotensin‐Converting Inhibitors and Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers and Longitudinal Change in Percent Emphysema on Computed Tomography. The Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Lung Study (2017) (34)
- Measuring health-relevant businesses over 21 years: refining the National Establishment Time-Series (NETS), a dynamic longitudinal data set (2015) (32)
- Neighborhood physical disorder in New York City (2016) (28)
- Disparities in self-rated health across generations and through the life course. (2017) (27)
- The independent associations of recorded crime and perceived safety with physical health in a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of men and women in New Zealand (2014) (27)
- Short-term associations between objective crime, park-use, and park-based physical activity in low-income neighborhoods. (2019) (25)
- Levels and determinants of tree pollen in New York City (2018) (23)
- Asthma and lung structure on computed tomography: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Lung Study. (2013) (23)
- Amount of leisure-time physical activity and risk of nonfatal myocardial infarction. (2007) (23)
- Business Data Categorization and Refinement for Application in Longitudinal Neighborhood Health Research: a Methodology (2020) (23)
- Urban trees and asthma: a call for epidemiological research. (2019) (22)
- Patterns in Geographic Access to Health Care Facilities Across Neighborhoods in the United States Based on Data From the National Establishment Time-Series Between 2000 and 2014 (2020) (22)
- Neighborhood Recreation Facilities and Facility Membership Are Jointly Associated with Objectively Measured Physical Activity (2019) (21)
- A Review of Spatial Variation of Allergenic Tree Pollen Within Cities (2015) (21)
- Ethnic differences in sudden cardiac arrest resuscitation (2016) (20)
- The association of unemployment from age 21 to 33 with substance use disorder symptoms at age 39: The role of childhood neighborhood characteristics. (2017) (19)
- Disparities in trajectories of changes in the unhealthy food environment in New York City: A latent class growth analysis, 1990-2010. (2019) (19)
- Assessing Google Street View Image Availability in Latin American Cities (2020) (17)
- Associations of Neighborhood‐Level Social Determinants of Health with Bacterial Infections in Young, Febrile Infants (2018) (17)
- Quantifying Distance Overestimation From Global Positioning System in Urban Spaces. (2016) (17)
- Who is in this study, anyway? Guidelines for a useful Table 1. (2019) (17)
- Evaluating the health effects of place-based slum upgrading physical environment interventions: A systematic review (2012-2018). (2020) (15)
- Cause and context: place-based approaches to investigate how environments affect mental health (2016) (15)
- Race, Ethnicity, Health Insurance, and Mortality in Older Survivors of Critical Illness (2017) (15)
- Perceptions and Uses of Public and Private Health Care in a Brazilian Favela (2018) (15)
- Lung function, percent emphysema, and QT duration: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) lung study. (2017) (14)
- Concordance With Prevention Guidelines and Subsequent Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, and Mortality: A Longitudinal Study of Older Adults (2017) (13)
- Socioeconomic status is positively associated with percent emphysema on CT scan: The MESA lung study. (2011) (13)
- A Local View of Informal Urban Environments: a Mobile Phone-Based Neighborhood Audit of Street-Level Factors in a Brazilian Informal Community (2019) (12)
- How Does Park Use and Physical Activity Differ between Childhood and Adolescence? A Focus on Gender and Race-Ethnicity (2019) (11)
- Comparing nutrition environments in bodegas and fast-food restaurants. (2014) (11)
- Association of secondhand tobacco smoke exposure during childhood on adult cardiovascular disease risk among never-smokers. (2019) (11)
- Independent review of social and population variation in mental health could improve diagnosis in DSM revisions. (2013) (11)
- Percent Emphysema and Daily Motor Activity Levels in the General Population: Multi‐Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (2017) (10)
- Temporal and spatial associations between influenza and asthma hospitalisations in New York City from 2002 to 2012: a longitudinal ecological study (2018) (10)
- Using Universal Kriging to Improve Neighborhood Physical Disorder Measurement (2020) (10)
- Use of SOPARC to assess physical activity in parks: do race/ethnicity, contextual conditions, and settings of the target area, affect reliability? (2019) (10)
- Invited commentary: Taking advantage of time-varying neighborhood environments. (2014) (10)
- Building a Methodological Foundation for Impactful Urban Planetary Health Science (2020) (10)
- Safer sex intentions modify the relationship between substance use and sexual risk behavior among black South African men who have sex with men (2019) (7)
- The association between neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and high-risk injection behavior among people who inject drugs. (2018) (7)
- Designing Healthier Built Environments (2018) (7)
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of New York City Health Policy Initiatives in Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Mortality, 1990–2011 (2017) (7)
- Determinants of hazardous drinking among black South African men who have sex with men. (2017) (6)
- Food environments are relevant to recruitment and adherence in dietary modification trials. (2015) (6)
- Associations between neighborhood greenspace and brain imaging measures in non-demented older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study (2021) (6)
- Disability and Recovery of Independent Function in Obstructive Lung Disease: The Cardiovascular Health Study (2014) (6)
- Are feelings of peace or depression the drivers of the relationship between neighbourhood social fragmentation and mental health in Aotearoa/New Zealand? (2014) (6)
- In the Wrong Place with the Wrong SNP: The Association Between Stressful Neighborhoods and Cardiac Arrest Within Beta-2-adrenergic Receptor Variants (2016) (5)
- The relationship between childhood obesity and neighborhood food ecology explored through the context of gentrification in New York City. (2018) (5)
- Household-level drinking water quality, access, and management practices within an informal community: a case study at Rio das Pedras, Rio de Janeiro (2018) (5)
- have lower prevalence of asthma Children living in areas with more street trees (2008) (5)
- Neighborhood food environment, dietary fatty acid biomarkers, and cardiac arrest risk (2018) (5)
- Measuring Neighborhood Order and Disorder: a Rapid Literature Review (2019) (5)
- Spatially varying racial inequities in cardiovascular health and the contribution of individual- and neighborhood-level characteristics across the United States: The REasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke (REGARDS) study. (2021) (4)
- Clean fleets, different streets: evaluating the effect of New York City’s clean bus program on changes to estimated ambient air pollution (2022) (4)
- Medical facilities in the neighborhood and incidence of sudden cardiac arrest. (2018) (4)
- Residential Relocation by Older Adults in Response to Incident Cardiovascular Health Events: A Case-Crossover Analysis (2014) (4)
- What Do We Know About What Works? (2020) (3)
- Associations between Greenspace and Gentrification-Related Sociodemographic and Housing Cost Changes in Major Metropolitan Areas across the United States (2021) (3)
- Development and validation of a method to quantify benefits of clean-air taxi legislation (2019) (3)
- Changes in the Retail Food Environment in Mexican Cities and Their Association with Blood Pressure Outcomes (2022) (3)
- Use of community-level data in the National Children’s Study to establish the representativeness of segment selection in the Queens Vanguard Site (2012) (3)
- Healthy food retail availability and cardiovascular mortality in the United States: a cohort study (2021) (3)
- Model-based and design-based inference goals frame how to account for neighborhood clustering in studies of health in overlapping context types (2017) (2)
- Matching participant address with public records database in a US national longitudinal cohort study (2021) (2)
- Association of Retail Environment and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status with Mortality among Community-dwelling Older Adults in the US: Cardiovascular Health Study. (2021) (2)
- Association of neighborhood physical activity opportunities with incident cardiovascular disease in the Cardiovascular Health Study. (2021) (2)
- Land use diversity and park use in New York City (2021) (2)
- Body mass index across the life course: emergence of race-by-sex disparities in early childhood. (2019) (2)
- A comparative case study of walking environment in Madrid and Philadelphia using multiple sampling methods and street virtual audits (2020) (2)
- Addressing patient’s unmet social needs: disparities in access to social services in the United States from 1990 to 2014, a national times series study (2022) (1)
- Does a physical activity supportive environment ameliorate or exacerbate socioeconomic inequities in incident coronary heart disease? (2020) (1)
- Cataloging the Bloomberg era: New York City legislation relevant to cardiovascular risk factors (2017) (1)
- The burden of air pollution on poor individuals and neighborhoods: Evidence from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) (2013) (1)
- Assessment of Walking Speed and Distance Post-Stroke Increases After Providing a Theory-Based Toolkit (2022) (1)
- Abstract 065: Ultra-processed Food And Hypertension Incidence In The Regards Cohort (2021) (1)
- Neighborhood walkability and poverty predict excessive gestational weight gain: A cross‐sectional study in New York City (2022) (1)
- Abstract MP38: Local Population Income, Geographic Space and Interactions Predict Increased Presence of Physical Activity Facilities in New York City Metropolitan Area Census Tracts, 1990-2010 (2015) (1)
- Abstract P430: Spatial Proximity and Membership to Gyms or Related Facilities Jointly Predict Objectively Measured Physical Activity among Adults in New York City (2014) (1)
- Multilevel Factors for Adiposity Change in a Population-Based Prospective Study of Black Breast Cancer Survivors (2022) (1)
- Urban Tree Canopy And The Development Of Asthma, Wheeze, Rhinitis, And Allergic Sensitization To Tree Pollen In A Birth Cohort Study (2012) (1)
- Assessment of the Urban Environment (2020) (0)
- Prior Depression and Health Insurance in Non-receipt of Needed Medical Services. (2015) (0)
- Edinburgh Research Explorer Cigarette Smoking Is Associated with Subclinical Parenchymal Lung Disease (2009) (0)
- Mooney et al. Respond to "Observing Neighborhood Physical Disorder". (2017) (0)
- Associations of Cumulative and Point-in-Time Neighborhood Poverty and Walkability with Body Mass from Age 30 to 39 (2022) (0)
- Neighborhood Greenspace and Cognition: The Cardiovascular Health Study (2021) (0)
- Neighborhood socioeconomic status, cognitive function, and small vessel disease (S45.006) (2015) (0)
- UseofGoogleStreetViewtoAssessEnvironmental Contributions to Pedestrian Injury (2016) (0)
- EffectofIndividualorNeighborhoodDisadvantage ontheAssociationBetweenNeighborhoodWalkability andBodyMassIndex (2009) (0)
- Abstract MP08: Evaluating the Influence of Bloomberg Era Policy on New York City Cardiovascular Disease Mortality Rates (2015) (0)
- Original Contribution Association of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Childhood With Early Emphysema in Adulthood Among Nonsmokers (2009) (0)
- Analysis Strategies for Relating the Urban Environment to Health (2020) (0)
- The Association of Neighborhood Medical Facilities with Aging in Place and Risk of Incident Myocardial Infarction (2020) (0)
- Objective Crime Data and Walking for Physical Activity (2006) (0)
- City features related to obesity in preschool children: a cross-sectional analysis of 159 cities in six Latin American countries (2023) (0)
- Abstract P395: Low Neighborhood Income is Associated With Increased Hypertension Incidence in the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke Study (2020) (0)
- Can we increase neighborhood disorder estimation accuracy by incorporating spatially located covariates in kriging models ? (2015) (0)
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure in Childhood Predicts Early Emphysema in Adulthood: The MESA Lung Study. (2009) (0)
- Uneven Growth in Social Capital Organizations After Disasters by Pre-Disaster Conditions in the United States 2000–2014 (2022) (0)
- Apical-Basilar Ratio In Percent Emphysema Predicts Incident Cardiovascular Events. The MESA Lung Study (2010) (0)
- Angiotensin II receptor blockers, ACE inhibitors, lung function and percent emphysema; the MESA lung study (2012) (0)
- Measuring health-relevant businesses over 21 years: refining the National Establishment Time-Series (NETS), a dynamic longitudinal data set (2015) (0)
- Corrigendum to “Urban trees, air quality, and asthma: An interdisciplinary review” [Landscape Urban Plan. 187 (2019) 47–59] (2020) (0)
- Greenspace, gentrification, and urban development in the United States:A longitudinal, multi-city analysis (2020) (0)
- Impact of land use and food environment on risk of type 2 diabetes: A national study of veterans, 2008-2018. (2022) (0)
- Abstract MP12: Residential Relocation by Older Adults in Response to Incident Cardiovascular Health Events (2013) (0)
- Association of early life exposure to tree pollen with the development of allergic sensitization, asthma, wheeze, and rhinitis in the New York City Neighborhood Allergy and Asthma Study (2016) (0)
- National Trends and Disparities in Retail Food Environments in the United States between 1990-2014. (2023) (0)
- Reviewer Names for 2016 (2017) (0)
- Neighbourhood walkability is associated with risk of gestational diabetes: A cross-sectional study in New York City. (2023) (0)
- ChlorpyrifosExposureandUrbanResidential EnvironmentCharacteristicsasDeterminantsof EarlyChildhoodNeurodevelopment (2011) (0)
- 653 Crohn's Disease Mortality and Ambient Air Pollution in New York City (2019) (0)
- Fostering capacity building and multidisciplinary urban health research in Latin America (2023) (0)
- Exploring potential for selection bias in using survey data to estimate the association between institutional trust and depression. (2023) (0)
- Concluding Remarks (2020) (0)
- Abstract P085: Neighborhood Population Density is Associated With Lower Levels of Potassium Excretion in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) (2015) (0)
- Intra-urban pollen data to inform buffer selection for greenspace research (2019) (0)
- Characterizing and Mapping Health in Urban Areas (2020) (0)
- Managing and Integrating Diverse Sources of Urban Data (2020) (0)
- Development Of A Land Use Regression Model For Tree Pollen Exposure (2015) (0)
- 261Can a physical activity supportive environment reduce socioeconomic inequities in incident coronary heart disease? (2021) (0)
- Elevated systemic biomarkers and persistent anxiety and depression in smokers with and without COPD: An analysis of the SPIROMICS cohort (2017) (0)
- Causal Inference with Case-Only Studies in Injury Epidemiology Research (2022) (0)
- 2013 Reviewers (2013) (0)
- THE BIDIRECTIONAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGING IN PLACE AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING OVER TIME (2019) (0)
- 430 Training neural networks to identify built environment features for pedestrian safety (2022) (0)
- Use of SOPARC to assess physical activity in parks: can race/ethnicity, observation settings, and target area conditions affect reliability? (2019) (0)
- Asthma Age-of-onset And Percentage Of Low-attenuation Areas On CT Scan And Lung Function In A Multi-ethnic Cohort: The MESA Lung Study (2010) (0)
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and lung function in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis lung study. (2022) (0)
- Higher Neighborhood Population Density Is Associated with Lower Potassium Intake in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) (2021) (0)
- Neighborhood Social Context and Individual Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposures Associated with Child Cognitive Test Scores (2013) (0)
- Mediation of an association between neighborhood socioeconomic environment and type 2 diabetes through the leisure-time physical activity environment in an analysis of three independent samples (2023) (0)
- Time-Varying Food Retail and Incident Disease in the Cardiovascular Health Study. (2023) (0)
- Human Perceptions and Reflections on the Urban Context (2020) (0)
- 1204-P: Evaluation of Mediation via the Physical Activity Environment of Neighborhood, Socioeconomic Environment, and Type 2 Diabetes Associations (2022) (0)
- Evaluating the Impact of the Clean Heat Program on Air Pollution Levels in New York City (2020) (0)
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