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Faculty Fellow

David Barnes

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Director of Health and Societies Major and Associate Professor

About

David Barnes is an Associate Professor and Director of the Health and Societies Major in the Department of History and Sociology of Science in the School of Arts and Sciences, where he teaches the history of medicine and public health. Prior to joining Penn, Barnes taught for a year at the Institute for Liberal Arts at Emory University and for seven years in the History of Science Department at Harvard University. His current research is concentrated on the history of infectious disease, epidemiology, and public health; nineteenth-century urban European social and cultural history; and the politics of international disease control programs. He has a forthcoming book on the history of the Lazaretto Quarantine Station, located outside of Philadelphia.

Selected Publications

Barnes, David. 2014. “Cargo, ‘Infection,’ Cargo, and the Logic of Quarantine in the Nineteenth Century.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 88(1).

Barnes, David. 2010. “Targeting Patient Zero.” In Tuberculosis Then and Now: Perspectives on the History of an Infectious Disease, 49-71, edited by Flurin Condrau and Michael Worboys.  Montreal, QC and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Barnes, David. 2006. The Great Stink of Paris and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle against Filth and Germs. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Barnes, David. 2002. “Scents and Sensibilities: Disgust and the Meanings of Odors in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris.” Historical Reflections/Réflexions historiques 28: 21-49.

Barnes, David. 1 995. The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Nineteenth-Century France. University of California Press.

Faculty Fellow

Jere Behrman

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William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics

About

Jere R. Behrman is W.R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Economics and Sociology in the School of Arts and Sciences. A leading international researcher in empirical microeconomics with a focus on developing economies, Behrman has been Chair of Economics, Research Associate and Director of Penn’s Population Studies Center, Associate Director of the Lauder Institute, and Associate Director of Penn’s Population Aging Research Center, among other positions in the University. He has been an investigator on over 160 research projects, including 42 National Institutes of Health (NIH) and 14 National Science Foundation (NSF) grants, and has published over 400 articles and 35 books. The unifying dimension of much of this research is to improve empirical knowledge of the determinants of and the impacts of human resources given unobserved factors such as innate health and ability, the functioning of various institutions such as households and imperfect markets, and information imperfections. 

Selected Publications

Behrman, Jere R., Susan W. Parker, Petra E. Todd, and Kenneth I. Wolpin. 2015. “Aligning Learning Incentives of Students and Teachers: Results from a Social Experiment in Mexican High Schools.” Journal of Political Economy 123(2): 325-64.

Richter, Linda M., Bernadette Daelmans, Joan Lombardi, Jody Heymann, Florencia Lopez Boo, Jere R. Behrman, Chunling Lu, Jane E. Lucas, Rafael Perez-Escamilla, Tarun Dua, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Karin Stenberg, Paul Gertler, and Gary L. Darmstadt. “Investing in the Foundation of Sustainable Development: Pathways to Scale up for Early Childhood Development. 2017. “ The Lancet.

Allen, Franklin, Jere R. Behrman, Nancy Birdsall, Shahrokh Fardoust, Dani Rodrik, Andrew Steer, and Arvind Subramanian. 2014. Towards a Better Global Economy: Policy Implications for Global Citizens in the 21st Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Almedia, Rita, Jere Behrman, and David Robalino, editors. 2012. The Right Skills for the Job? Rethinking Effective Training Policies for Workers. Washington, DC: Social Protection, Human Development Network, World Bank. 

Penn IUR Scholar

Catherine Brinkley

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Associate Professor, Department of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis

Areas of Interest

    About

    Katie Brinkley is an Assistant Professor, Department of Human Ecology, University of California. Brinkley completed her Ph.D. in Regional Planning at PennDesign in December 2013 and recently finished her last clinical year in the VMD program at the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School. Brinkley’s Ph.D. in Regional Planning and Master’s degree in Virology, along with her current work as a Veterinary student, inform her research in ecosystem management; this research concentrates particularly on the prevention of animal-to-human disease and sustainable resource planning. Her research interests include public health, the rural-urban interface, animal agriculture, and food security. Brinkley’s dissertation uses GIS and spatial analytics to explore urban development morphologies as they impact the agricultural sector, regional economies and food distribution. She has worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to assess food access and waste management in low-income nations and is a former Fulbright Fellow.

    Selected Publications

    Brinkley, C. (2012). “Evaluating the Benefits of Peri-Urban Agriculture.” Journal of Planning 

    Literature. 27(3): 259-269.

    Brinkley, C. (2013). “Avenues into Food Planning: a Review of Scholarly Food System Research.” International Journal of Planning Studies. 18(2): 243-266.

    Brinkley, Catherine, Eugenie Birch, and Alexander Keating. (2013) “Feeding cities: Charting a research and practice agenda toward food security.” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems and Community Development.

    Brinkley, C. forthcoming. “Decoupled: successful planning policies in countries that have reduced per capita GHG emissions with continued economic growth,” Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy.

    Fellow

    Seung Ah Byun

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    Director of the Chester County Water Resources Authority

    About

    With 20 years of experience, Dr. Byun is a Director of the Chester County Water Resources Authority. Prior to this, Seung Ah, was a  Water Resource Engineer with the Delaware River Basin Commission and a Senior Planner for Water Resources with the Brandywine Conservancy’s Municipal Assistance Program. Her responsibilities involve developing and managing innovative stormwater management practices, green stormwater infrastructure tools, and source water protection projects at the watershed and site levels. She also provides technical expertise to municipalities on compliance with state and federal water quality regulations such as MS4 permits and TMDL requirements. Seung Ah received her doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design’s Department of City and Regional Planning. She has also served as a water resources engineer at CDM Smith, primarily consulting to the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Watersheds and CSO Program.

    Dr. Byun obtained a master’s degree in environmental engineering from Drexel University and a bachelor’s of science in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Seung Ah is a licensed Professional Engineer and is a LEED Accredited Professional.

    Selected Publications

    Byun, Seung Ah. James T. Smullen, Mark Maimone, Robert E. Dickinson, and Christopher S. Crockett. (2003) “Overcoming Obstacles for the Application of SWMM to Large-scale Watersheds.” Practical Modeling of Urban Water Systems, Monograph 11. Edited by James, William. CHI, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

    Faculty Fellow

    Carolyn Cannuscio

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    Associate Professor

    About

    Carolyn Cannuscio is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the Perelman School of Medicine and Director of Research for Center for Public Health Initiatives. She is committed to improving the health of populations, especially disadvantaged urban populations, through her scholarship and public health practice. This work is strengthened by collaborations with vibrant interdisciplinary teams and dedicated community partners. Dr. Cannuscio completed her training at Brown University and the Harvard School of Public Health with leaders in social and chronic disease epidemiology. She first came to Penn as a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar and then became a member of the faculty, where she has worked to address the critical social problems driving health disparities, with a focus on population health dynamics in Philadelphia—the poorest of the United States’ 10 largest cities. She is committed to strengthening cross-sectoral partnerships with organizations that have been largely untapped as agents for promoting population health, such as public libraries (notably the Free Library of Philadelphia) and arts institutions (including the City of Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program). Dr. Cannuscio is also involved in a range of projects to advance evidence-based practices for the prevention/management of important public health concerns (e.g., the opioid epidemic, food insecurity/(un)healthy food access, and food allergies). She is dedicated to using her skills, experience, partnerships, and position at Penn to answer the Institute of Medicine’s call to “eliminate health inequities and improve health for all.”

    Selected Publications

    Hailu, T., C.C. Cannuscio, R. Dupuis, and J. Karlawish. 2017. “A typical day with mild cognitive impairment.” American Journal of Public Health 107(6): 927-928. 

    Morgan, A.U.; R. Dupuis, E.D. Whiteman, B. D’Alonzo, and C.C. Cannuscio. 2017. “Our Doors Are Open to Everybody: Public Libraries as Common Ground for Public Health.” Journal of Urban Health-Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 94(1).

    Golinkoff, A., Moriah Hall; Willie Baronet, Carolyn Cannuscio, and Rosemary Frasso. 2016. “Cardboard Commentary: A Qualitative Analysis of the Signs From America’s Streets.” American Journal of Public Health 106(11).

    Penn IUR Scholar

    Janet Currie

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    Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

    Areas of Interest

      About

      Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University. She also directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is a Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists.  She was elected Vice President of the American Economics Association in 2010, and will be President of the Society of Labor Economists in 2014. Her research focuses on the health and well-being of children. She has written about early intervention programs, programs to expand health insurance and improve health care, public housing, and food and nutrition programs. Her current research focuses on socioeconomic differences in child health, and on environmental threats to children’s health.

      Selected Publications

      Currie, Janet, and Erdal Tekin. 2015. “Is There a Link Between Foreclosure and Health? American Economic Journals: Economic Policy.”

      Currie, Janet, and Joshua Graff-Zivin, Jamie Mullen, and Matthew Neidell. 2014. “What Do We Know About Short and Long Term Effects of Early Life Exposure to Pollution? Annual Review of Resource Economics. 

      Currie, Janet and Robert Khan, ed. 2012. The Future of Children. Children With Disabilities, 22(1). Washington DC: Princeton-Brookings.

      Currie, Janet and Reed Walker. 2011. Traffic Congestion and Infant Health. American Economic Journal-Applied Economics, 65-90.

      Currie, Janet M. 2006. The Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the Nation’s Poor Children and Families. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

      Affiliated PhD Student

      Ari Friedman

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      MD/PhD Candidate in Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania

      About

      Ari B. Friedman is a Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute and a sixth-year M.D./Ph.D. student in health economics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School. His research interests include the industrial organization of the unscheduled care system (primary care clinics, urgent care and retail clinics, and emergency departments), access to care and insurance, and financially integrating population health into the medical system. His work has been cited more than 600 times, with an h-index of 8.

       

      Selected Publications

      Friedman AB. Comment on Economic Incentives and Use of the Intensive Care Unit. JAMA 2014. 311(22):2336-2337.

      Rhodes KV, Kenney GM, Friedman AB, Saloner B, Lawson CC, Chearo D, Wissoker D, Polsky D. Primary Care Access for New Patients on the Eve of Health Care Reform. JAMA Int Med 2014.

      Becker NV, Friedman AB. Emergency Department, Heal Thyself. Am J Emerg Med 2014. 32(2):175-177.

      Friedman AB, Mendola T. To Cover Their Child, One Couple Navigates A Health Insurance Maze In Pennsylvania. Health Affairs2013. 32(5):994-997.

      Friedman AB, Becker N. Understanding the Individual Mandate’s SCOTUS Pivot Points. LDI Health Economist. April 2012.VIDEO

       

      Faculty Fellow

      Karen Glanz

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      George A. Weiss University Professor, Biostatistics and Epidemiology

      Professor of Nursing

      Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics

      Adjunct Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

      About

      Karen Glanz is George A. Weiss University Professor, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the Perelman School of Medicine, and Professor of Nursing in the Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences in the School of Nursing and Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She is Director of the UPenn Prevention Research Center and serves on the NHLBI Advisory Council at the National Institutes of Health. Her research seeks to understand health behavior and improve it through education, public policy, and organizational change. A globally influential public health scholar, her work spans psychology, epidemiology, nutrition, and other disciplines. Her research in community and health care settings covers healthy eating, obesity prevention, cancer prevention and control, chronic disease management and control, reducing health disparities, and health communication technologies. She has published more than 440 journal articles and book chapters. Thomson Reuters named her one of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds 2015” in general social sciences. The Institute for Scientific Information has named her a Most Highly Cited Researcher. Over the past 15 years, Glanz has received more than $45 million in research funding. 

      Selected Publications

      Cain KL, Gavand KA, Conway TL, Geremia CM, Millstein RA, Frank LD, Saelens BE, Adams MA, Glanz K, King AC, Sallis JF. 2017 (in press). “Developing and validating an abbreviated version of the Microscale Audit for Pedestrian Streetscapes (MAPS-Abbreviated).” Journal of Transport & Health.

      Wang X, Conway TL, Cain KL, Frank LD, Saelens BE, Geremia C, Kerr J, Glanz K, Carlson JA, Sallis JF. 2017 (in press). “Interactions of psychosocial factors with built environments in explaining adolescents’ active transportation.” Preventive Medicine.

      Carlson JA, Mitchell TB, Saelens BE, Staggs VS, Kerr J, Frank LD, Schipperijn J, Conway TL, Glanz K, Chapman JE, Cain KL, Sallis JF. 2017 (in press). “Within-person associations of young adolescents’ physical activity across five primary locations: Is there evidence of cross-location compensation?” International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition & Physical Activity.

      James P, Hart JE, Hipp JA, Mitchell JA, Kerr J, Hurvitz PM, Glanz K, Laden F. 2017 (in press). “GPS-based exposure to greenness and walkability and accelerometry-based physical activity.” Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

      Glanz K, Johnson L, Yaroch A, Phillips M, Ayala G, Davis E. 2016. “Measures of Retail Food Store Environments and Sales:  Review and Implications for Healthy Eating Initiatives.” Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 48: 280-288.

      Faculty Fellow

      Erick Guerra

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      Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning

      Director, Cm2 University Transportation Center

      About

      Erick Guerra is Associate Professor and Director of Cm2 University Transportation Center in the Weitzman School of Design, where he teaches courses in transportation planning and quantitative planning methods. His research focuses on the relationship between land use, transportation systems, and travel behavior with an emphasis on rapidly motorizing cities, public health outcomes, and transportation technologies. He has published recent articles on land use and transportation in Mexico and Indonesia, public transport policy, land use and traffic safety, and contemporary planning for self-driving vehicles.

      As a practicing researcher and consultant, Guerra has completed projects on accessibility and transportation affordability for the Brookings Institution, the World Bank, the OECD, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He holds a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California Berkeley, a Master’s in Urban Planning from Harvard University, and a BA in Fine Arts and French from the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon from 2002 to 2004.

      Selected Publications

      Dong, Xiaoxia, Matt DiScenna, and Erick Guerra. 2017. “Transit User Perception of Driverless Buses.” Transportation May: 1–16.

      Landis, John, Erick Guerra, and David Hsu. 2017. “Intersecting National Climate Change Policy with Local Development Trends, Travel Patterns, and Building Forms.” Journal of Planning Education and Research.

      Guerra, Erick and Adam Millard-Ball. 2017. “Getting around a license-plate ban: Behavioral responses to Mexico City’s driving restriction.” Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 55: 113-126.

      Guerra, Erick. 2017. “Electric vehicles, air pollution, and the motorcycle city: A stated preference survey of consumers’ willingness to adopt electric motorcycles in Solo, Indonesia.” Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. 

      Guerra, Erick. 2017. “Does Where You Live Affect How Much You Spend on Transit? The Link between Urban Form and Household Transit Expenditures in Mexico City.” The Journal of Transport and Land Use 10(1): 1–24.

      Affiliated PhD Student

      Maryam Khojasteh

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      PhD Candidate, City and Regional Planning, School of Design, University of Pennslyvania

      About

      Maryam is a PhD student in the City and Regional Planning program at PennDesign. She is interested in community-based research that explores the intersection of public health, community food system and community economic development. She received her master degree in Urban Planning from SUNY at Buffalo. Prior to coming to Penn, she worked as a research associate at the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab in Buffalo NY. She worked toward building the capacity of non-profit organizations and local governments to strengthen community food systems as well as coordinating on the ground health interventions to promote active living among school-aged children. Her current project explores the ways that immigrant food entrepreneurs impact the health and well-being of immigrants and receiving communities. 

       

      Selected Publications

      Khojasteh, Maryam, and Samina Raja. 2016. “Agents of Change: Role of Immigrants in Creating Healthier Food Environments.” Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition. 1-29

      Baek, So-Ra, Samina Raja, Nathan Attard, and Maryam Khojasteh. 2016. “Acculturating into (In)active Commuting to School: Differences among Children of Foreign-born and US-born parents.” Children, Youth, and Environment 26 (1):37-55

       

      Faculty Fellow

      Eliza Davenport Whiteman

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      Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine & Community Health

      About

      Eliza is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health at the Perelman School of Medicine. Her research interests focus on issues of food access and food insecurity in urban environments. She uses a mixed-methods approach to explore spatiotemporal dynamics of food and health across the urban planning, public health and social welfare disciplines. She received a MPH and PhD in City & Regional Planning from the University Of Pennsylvania, MS in Nutrition Policy and an MA in Urban & Environmental Planning from Tufts University and a BA in Sustainable Agriculture from The Evergreen State College. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked on city food policy issues at the Baltimore Food Policy Initiative, and in Portland, Oregon, where she served on the Portland-Multnomah Food Policy Council and worked at a non-profit food education organization. 

      Selected Publications

      Kinsey EW, Widen E, Quinn JW, Huynh M, Van Wye G, Lovasi GS, Neckerman K, Rundle A: Neighborhood walkability and poverty predict excessive gestational weight gain: A cross-sectional study in New York City. Obesity (Silver Spring) 30(2): 503-514, Feb 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1002/oby.23339; Epub 2022 Jan 23.

      Widen EM, Burns N, Daniels M, Backlund G, Rickman R, Foster S, Nichols AR, Hoepner L, Kinsey EW, Ramirez-Carvey J, Hassoun A, Perera FP, Bukowski R, Rundle AG: Gestational weight change and childhood body composition trajectories from pregnancy to early adolescence. Obesity (Silver Spring) Feb 2022 Notes: doi: 10.1002/oby.23367; Online ahead of print.

      Lee MM, Kinsey EW, Kenney EL.: U.S. Nutrition Assistance Program Participation and Childhood Obesity: The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study 2011. Am J Prev Med Apr 2022.

      Hecht AA, Dunn CG, Kinsey EW, Read MA, Levi R, Richardson AS, Hager ER, Seligman HK.: Estimates of the Nutritional Impact of Non-Participation in the National School Lunch Program during COVID-19 School Closures. Nutrients 14: 1387, Mar 2022.

      Lowenstein M, Feuerstein-Simon R, Sheni R, Dupuis R, Kinsey EW, Marti XL, Cannuscio CC: Public libraries as partners in confronting the overdose crisis: A qualitative analysis. Substance Abuse 42(3): 302-309, 2021 Notes: doi: 10.1080/08897077.2019.1691129; Epub 2019 Dec 18.

      Kinsey EW, Hecht AA, Dunn CG, Levi R, Read MA, Smith C, Niesen P, Seligman HK, Hager ER: School Closures During COVID-19: Opportunities for Innovation in Meal Service. American Journal of Public Health 110(11): 1635-1643, Nov 2020 Notes: doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305875; Epub 2020 Sep 17.

      Kinsey EW, Kinsey D, Rundle AG: COVID-19 and Food Insecurity: An Uneven Patchwork of Responses. Journal of Urban Health 97(3): 332-335, June 2020 Notes: doi:10.1007/s11524-020-00455-5

      Rundle AG, Park Y, Herbstman JB, Kinsey EW, Wang CY. : COVID-19 Related School Closings and Risk of Weight Gain Among Children. Obesity (Silver Spring) 28(6): 1008-1009, Jun 2020 Notes: doi: 10.1002/oby.22813; Epub 2020 Apr 18.

      Dupuis R, Kinsey EW, Spergel J, Brown-Whitehorn T, Graves A, Samuelson K, Epstein C, Mollen C, Cannuscio CC: Food Allergy Management at School. Journal of School Health 90(5): 395-406, May 2020 Notes: doi: 10.1111/josh.12885. Epub 2020 Mar 2.

      Kinsey EW, Dupuis R, Oberle M, Cannuscio CC, Hillier A: Chronic disease self-management within the monthly benefit cycle of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Public Health Nutr 22(12): 2248-2259, Aug 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1017/S1368980019001071; Epub 2019 May 20.

      Faculty Fellow

      Eliza Whiteman Kinsey

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      Assistant Professor

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