Population Dynamics and the Physical and Social Environment
How do features of the natural, economic, and policy environments impact the health of a population? And how do the dynamics of population change affect the environment? Researchers at CPC explore these and other questions using a variety of tools and methods, from qualitative data collection and in-depth one-on-one interviews to combining machine learning with high resolution satellite imagery to develop fine-grained measures of the contexts in which individuals and families operate. This work helps us understand the links between environmental changes and human health.
Associated Projects
Accelerating the Integration of Novel Data Streams in Mathematical Models
To enhance modeling utility in future public health emergencies and threats, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the Infectious Disease Modeling and Analytics Initiative. This project strengthens and supports internal and external applied modeling and analytic work, and helps coordinate information across…
Add Health (The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health)
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) is a longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of over 20,000 adolescents who were in grades 7-12 during the 1994-95 school year, and have been followed for five waves to date, most recently…
Add Health Epigenome Resource: Life course stressors and epigenomic modifications in adulthood
The overall goals of this project are to investigate the influence of life course psychosocial stressors on DNA methylation and gene expression that may influence cardiometabolic health and depression in a US representative study of young adults. The findings from this study will have significant…
After the flood: Strategies to prevent malaria epidemics caused by severe flooding
The impact of climate change, including the increased frequency of weather extremes such as flooding, on the incidence of malaria and other vector-borne diseases is an issue of substantial public health importance. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop effective mitigation and control strategies.…
Agricultural intervention for food security and HIV health outcomes in Kenya
Despite major advances in care and treatment for those living with HIV, morbidity and mortality among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) remain unacceptably high in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), largely due to the parallel challenges of poverty and food insecurity. Food insecurity and poverty contribute to…