Discipline(s):
Epidemiology
Area(s) of Expertise:
Geographic and Social Determinants of Health, Built Environments and Health Behavior, Cardiovascular and Respiratory Epidemiology
E-Mail:
gl2225@columbia.edu
Background:
Gina S. Lovasi was an RWJF Health and Society Scholar at Columbia University from 2006 to 2009. Lovasi received her PhD and MPH in epidemiology from the University of Washington, where her research examined neighborhood walkability and neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics as determinants of physical activity and cardiovascular risk. Her research focuses on the effects of local urban infrastructure on health and health behaviors, as well as differences in these effects across population subgroups, such as young children and adults with different racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic backgrounds. Lovasi is an investigator with the Built Environment and Health (www.beh.columbia.edu/about) project, conducting research within New York City exploring how physical and social environments could be changed to better support physical activity and a healthy weight. She also convened an interdisciplinary working group on Social Networks and Health, and co-organized a conference on the intersection between social network and spatial analysis (www.capturingcontext.org). Currently, Lovasi is an assistant professor in Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She is also affiliated with the Columbia Population Research Center and the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health, and is an associate director with the Health and Society Scholars program at Columbia University.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Gina Lovasi's available publications in PubMed.
