Grantee Research Project Results
Final Report: Environmental Context of Health Disparities
EPA Grant Number: NIMHD007Title: Environmental Context of Health Disparities
Investigators: Juarez, Paul D , Langston, Michael A , Hood, Darryl B , Wilson, Sacoby M. , Wansoo, Im , Lichtveld, Maureen , Estes, Maurice , Al-Hamdan, Mohammad , Matthews-Juarez, Patricia , Robinson, Paul , Levine, Robert , Crosson, William
Institution: Meharry Medical College , Charles Drew University of Medicine & Science , Tulane University , National Space Science and Technology Center , University of Maryland - Baltimore , University of Tennessee
Current Institution: Meharry Medical College , Charles Drew University of Medicine & Science , National Space Science and Technology Center , Tulane University , University of Maryland - Baltimore , University of Tennessee
EPA Project Officer: Hahn, Intaek
Project Period: August 1, 2011 through July 31, 2014
Project Amount: $682,101
RFA: Transdisciplinary Networks of Excellence on the Environment and Health Disparities (2012) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Environmental Justice , Human Health
Objective:
This research endeavor builds upon current innovations of the Health Disparities Research Center of Excellence (HDRCOE) at Meharry Medical College by establishing an Environmental Health Disparities Core (EHDC) and expanding the capacity of health services researchers and other biomedical scientists to use a transdisciplinary systems approach to study the environmental context of health disparities. To achieve this goal, this supplement helped expand our current research program to:
(1) Incorporate data on the physical, social and environmental policies that will supplement currently funded health disparities research;
(2) Use High Throughput Analyses (HTA) to analyze relationships between health disparities and environmental factors; and
(3) Provide training in public participatory geographic information systems (PPGIS) and interactive mapping that supports community participation in the research process and in the translation, implementation and evaluation of targeted public health interventions.
Conclusions:
Major project accomplishments included: (1) establishment of a transdisciplinary team of environmental health investigators; (2) development and operationalization of the public health (i.e., external environment) exposome model; (3) continued development of the public health exposome repository consisting of annual, county-level variables from across the natural, built, social and policy environments; (4) dissemination of achievements through peer reviewed articles, national and invited scientific conferences, participation in NIH study sections, and submission of research grants; (5) numerous community presentations; (6) development of two websites to disseminate research findings: (a) www.immemphis.com and (b) www.communitymappingforhealthequity.org; and (7) application of the public health exposome paradigm in a number of NIH grant submissions.
Journal Articles on this Report : 15 Displayed | Download in RIS Format
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Chen C-K, Bruce M, Tyler L, Brown C, Garrett A, Goggins S, Lewis-Polite B, Weriwoh ML, Juarez PD, Hood DB, Skelton T. Analysis of an environmental exposure health questionnaire in a metropolitan minority population utilizing logistic regression and Support Vector Machines. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2013;24(Suppl 1):153-171. |
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Coughlin SS, Matthews‐Juarez P, Juarez PD, Melton CE, King M. Opportunities to address lung cancer disparities among African Americans. Cancer Medicine 2014;3(6):1467-1476. |
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Goldzweig IA, Schlundt DG, Moore WE, Smith PE, Zoorob RJ, Levine RS. An academic, business, and community alliance to promote evidence-based public health policy: the case of primary seat belt legislation. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2013;24(3):1364-1377. |
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Hennekens CH, Drowos J, Levine RS. Mortality from homicide among young Black men: a new American tragedy. The American Journal of Medicine 2013;126(4):282-283. |
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Juarez P, Hood DB. Sequencing the public health genome. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2013;24(Suppl 1):114-120. |
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Juarez PD, Matthews-Juarez P, Hood DB, Im W, Levine RS, Kilbourne BJ, Langston MA, Al-Hamdan MZ, Crosson WL, Estes MG, Estes SM, Agboto VK, Robinson P, Wilson S, Lichtveld MY. The public health exposome: a population-based, exposure science approach to health disparities research. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2014;11(12):12866-12895. |
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Kershenbaum AD, Langston MA, Levine RS, Saxton AM, Oyana TJ, Kilbourne BJ, Rogers GL, Gittner LS, Baktash SH, Matthews-Juarez P, Juarez PD. Exploration of preterm birth rates using the public health exposome database and computational analysis methods. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2014;11(12):12346-12366. |
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Langston MA, Levine RS, Kilbourne BJ, Rogers GL, Kershenbaum AD, Baktash SH, Coughlin SS, Saxton AM, Agboto VK, Hood DB, Litchveld MY Oyana TJ, Matthews-Juarez P, Juarez PD. Scalable combinatorial tools for health disparities research. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 2014;11(10):10419-10443. |
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Levine RS, Rust G, Aliyu M, Pisu M, Zoorob R, Goldzweig I, Juarez P, Husaini B, Hennekens CH. United States counties with low black male mortality rates. The American Journal of Medicine 2013;126(1):76-80. |
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Matthews-Juarez P. Developing a cadre of transdisciplinary health disparities researchers for the 21st century. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2013;24(Suppl 1):121-128. |
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Matthews-Juarez P, Juarez PD, Faulkner RT. Social media and military families: a perspective. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 2013;23(6):769-776. |
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Mejia de Grubb MC, Kilbourne B, Kihlberg C, Levine RS, Hood DB. Demographic and geographic variations in breast cancer mortality among U.S. Hispanics. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2013;24(Suppl 1):140-152. |
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Rehr R, Wilson S, Hood DB. The Maryland Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities: a review. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2013;24(Suppl 1):129-139. |
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Robinson PL, Dominguez F, Teklehaimanot S, Lee M, Brown A, Goodchild M, Hood DB. Does distance decay modelling of supermarket accessibility predict fruit and vegetable intake by individuals in a large metropolitan area? Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 2013;24(Suppl 1):172-185. |
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Sampson UKA, Husaini BA, Cain VA, Samad Z, Jahangir EC, Levine RS. Short-term trends in heart failure-related hospitalizations in a high-risk state. Southern Medical Journal 2013;106(2):147-154. |
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Supplemental Keywords:
Exposome, public health exposome, GIS participatory base researchRelevant Websites:
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