Research under the Population Health, Spatial Processes, and Environment area is coordinated by Elizabeth Ackert.
The health of populations, or population health, is the health of all people living in a given place. Understanding the drivers of health disparities in different populations is critical to informing public policy and public health practice in order to achieve health equity. The determinants of population health take place over varying temporal and spatial scales. Population health is influenced by exposures to events and environments across the life course, from in-utero (and before) to older age.
Population health is a product of causes operating from the distal societal level to the proximate household and individual levels. The Center’s research in Population Health, Spatial Processes, and Environment is coordinated by Professor Elizabeth Ackert, and examines the interactions between human populations and natural, physical, and social environments, and spatial processes within and across these environments, in order to understand determinants of population health and health disparities.
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Affiliates associated with the Population Health, Spatial Processes, and Environment area
