Discipline(s):
Sociology
Area(s) of Expertise:
Neighborhoods, Urban Environments, Housing, Obesity, Physical Activity
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Background:
Michael Bader received his B.A. in architecture and art history from Rice University and received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan. He has also been a research associate with the Built Environment and Health Project at Columbia University. His research, including his dissertation, traces the growth and influence of emergent types of neighborhood change such as gentrification on residential preferences and how, after moving to a neighborhood, residents’ risks of obesity and levels of physical activity are associated with the residential environments of the neighborhoods where they live. In pursuing this research, he has also developed methodological tools to characterize aspects of the physical environment at different geographic scales. As a Health and Society Scholar, Mike will investigate the degree to which neighborhood social and economic disparities in health outcomes result from residents with similar individual-level risks moving to the same neighborhoods compared to the degree these disparities result from the shared environmental exposures experienced by residents of the same neighborhood. Building on this research, he is also interested in examining how housing policy can be used to reduce health disparities in urban settings.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Michael Bader's available publications in PubMed.
