Active Projects
Methodologies for using GPS data in physical activity and sedentary behavior studies
posted on August 19, 2022
A significant hurdle in the development of methodologies and advancement of theory regarding data types used for answering question about energy and spatial context (such as the integration of GPS,...
Machine learning methods studies
posted on August 18, 2022
Machine learning methods are increasingly permeating various scientific disciplines as well as popular science. However, there are significant hurdles to applying these methods into public health and behavioral health ranging...
System developments in environmental monitoring, high-throughout omics technologies, behavioral and life course monitoring - understanding health disparities studies
posted on August 17, 2022
These papers focus on recent research centered on cancer-related health disparities, with a specific focus on data integration of large geospatial datasets with a range of omics and clinical outcomes....
Past Projects
2020-2021: Genomic and Environmental Determinants of Infant Deaths in San Diego County in 2015-2022
- Goal: Understand genetic causes of infant mortality in 1,000 infant deaths in San Diego County and explore environmental contributors to those deaths to inform future prevention strategies.
2016-2019: Hispanic Access and Exposure to the Built Food Environment Funding: NSF, Geography and Spatial Sciences Program (BCS-1561112)
- Goal: Using sensor-based data collection methods, assess the exposure and access of Hispanics in the San Diego region to the built food environment.
2015-2017: Nucleotides to Neighborhoods: Obesity-Related Association Networks Spanning Genomes, Behaviors, and Built Environment Funding: UCSD Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and San Diego Center for Systems Biology
- Goal: To assess as many levels of health related to obesity as possible including neighborhood, physical activity, and omics.