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by pjclarke | Nov 20, 2019

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Philippa Clarke

Research Professor @ ISR, Professor @ Epidemiology
ISR/SRC Social Environment and Health Program
SPH - Epidemiology
PhD, University of Toronto 2000

pjclarke@umich.edu
734-647-9611


https://seh.isr.umich.edu/about-us/philippa-clarke/

Research Professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, and Professor in the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, Dr. Clarke received her Ph.D. in Public Health from the University of Toronto in 2000. Her research interests are in social epidemiology, social gerontology, life course perspectives, models of disability, and population health. Her work examines the role of the built environment on mobility disability, cognitive function, and social participation using novel data science methods to capture the features in the built environment. She has used geographic information systems (GIS) to examine the relationship between the built environment and disability progression in vulnerable older adults in the Detroit area. She has used various methods to capture characteristics in the built environment, including the use of secondary data sources (e.g., Census, Info USA, Yelp), in-person neighborhood audits (using Systematic Social Observation), virtual web-based neighborhood audits (using Google Street View), and mobile wearable sensors to capture the impact of the built environment on mobility in real time. She is founder of the the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA), a publicly available national data archive containing contextual measures that are theoretically derived and relevant for clinical, social, and psychological health and healthy aging outcomes. NaNDA provides nation-wide measures of the physical and social environment at multiple levels of spatial scale. NaNDA draws from multiple contextual data sources to create measures (eg, walkability, crime, racial residential segregation, socioeconomic disadvantage and affluence, recreational centers, libraries, fast food, climate, healthcare, housing, public transit, civic participation) that can be readily linked to existing survey data, cohort studies, or electronic medical records over more three decades (1980-2020) at a range of geographic levels (state, county, tract, block group, metropolitan statistical area, zip code).

Projects

National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA)

The National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) is a publicly available data archive containing contextual measures …

Publications

Cumulative exposure to neighborhood context: Consequences for health transitions over the adult life course.
2014 | Clarke, P., Morenoff, J., Debbink, M., Golberstein, E., Elliott, M., & Lantz, P.

Cognitive function in the community setting: The neighborhood as a source of “cognitive reserve”?
2012 | Clarke P, Ailshire J, House JS, Morenoff JM, King K, Melendez R, Langa K.

Using Google Earth to conduct a neighborhood audit: Reliability of a virtual audit instrument.
2010 | Clarke, P., Ailshire, J., Melendez, R., Bader, M., & Morenoff, J.

Expertise:

Social Science Domains

Aging

Built Environment

Difficult to Observe Populations

Disability

Epidemiology

Gerontology

mobile wearable technology

Neighborhood

public health

Methodological Expertise

Hierarchical linear models

Latent Variable Modeling

Linking Multiple Databases

Longitudinal Data Analysis

Mixed Methods

Multilevel Models

Record Linkage

Programming Expertise

Databases

GIS

MPlus

SAS

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