Emily Meredith D'Agostino
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Emily D'Agostino, DrPH, MS, MEd, MA, is a community-engaged epidemiologist specializing in health disparities related to place. Her research expertise lies in partnering with community organizations to examine structural and social factors that reduce obesity disparities and promote physical activity and fitness. She also specializes in expanding epidemiology education to high school and undergraduate students, and incorporating contemporary teaching and learning practices into epidemiology instruction at all levels. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Duke University in Orthopaedic Surgery. She also provides research oversight for the Miami-Dade County Department of Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces, the third largest county park system in the nation, and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's NYC FITNESSGRAM co-managed by the New York City Department of Education. She received her doctorate in Epidemiology from the City University of New York's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. She also holds master's degrees in Science Education, Educational Leadership, and Museum Education.
Current Research Interests
Place-based health disparities; Youth physical activity, fitness, and obesity; Transportation equity; Reducing youth health disparities; Park-based programs; Promoting youth resilience; Collaborating with community organizations to promote youth health; Epidemiology education.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Occupational Therapy, Orthopaedics 2021
- Assistant Professor n Population Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences, Basic Science Departments 2020
Contact Information
- 311 Trent Dr., 2nd Fl, Occupational Therapy Doctorate Division, Durham, NC 27710
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emily.m.dagostino@duke.edu
(646) 853-1223
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- DrPH, City University of New York 2016
- M.Ed., City College of New York 2005
- M.A., New York University 2004
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Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Clinical Science Departments 2021
- Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Clinical Science Departments 2019 - 2020
- Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences, Basic Science Departments 2019 - 2020
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Leadership & Clinical Positions at Duke
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Director, Community-Engaged Research Practice, Duke Occupational Therapy Division
Co-Director, Social Epidemiology for Place and Health Equity Collaborative
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Director, Community-Engaged Research Practice, Duke Occupational Therapy Division
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Academic Positions Outside Duke
- Non-Resident Faculty Fellow, City University of New York, Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. 2018 - 2019
- Recognition
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In the News
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JUN 17, 2021 Bass Connections -
FEB 3, 2021 Duke Health News -
MAY 11, 2020 NEW YORK DAILY NEWS -
SEP 20, 2019 ERDC NY -
SEP 19, 2019 Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) -
SEP 17, 2019 CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy -
JUL 31, 2019 Education Business Weekly -
MAR 12, 2019 Interactive Health Technologies (IHT) -
MAR 8, 2019 Doctornoticias -
MAR 7, 2019 Daily Mail -
MAR 6, 2019 Helio -
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MAR 6, 2019 Medical Xpress -
MAR 6, 2019 American Heart Association -
OCT 15, 2018 CBS Miami -
SEP 5, 2018 Pacific Standard -
AUG 31, 2018 Health and Medicine Week -
JUN 18, 2018 Hematology Week -
MAY 26, 2018 Obesity, Fitness and Wellness Week -
MAR 7, 2018 Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) -
FEB 23, 2018 Health and Medicine Week -
JAN 2, 2018 Ottoson Middle School: Physical Education and Health. -
DEC 15, 2017 Health and Medicine Week -
MAR 10, 2017 New York University -
NOV 23, 2016 WPBT2 South Florida PBS -
AUG 1, 2016 NBC6
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Awards & Honors
- NICHD Director's Award. NIH. 2021
- Elected Member. American College of Epidemiology . 2017
- Reviewer of the Year. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2017
- Student Research Paper Contest Publication. Preventing Chronic Disease. 2017
- Master's Honors Thesis. City College of New York, School of Education. 2005
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics Scholar . New York University. 2004
- Rookie of the Year Teaching Award . New York City Department of Education . 2004
- AmeriCorps Teaching Fellow . New York City Teach for America. 2002
- Medical Humanities Scholar . Stanford University . 2001
- Magna cum laude. Pomona College . 1997
- Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society. Pomona College. 1997
- Research Education Fellow (R25) . National Institutes of Health . 1997
- Research Education Fellow (R25) . National Institutes of Health . 1996
- Expertise
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Subject Headings
- Cardiovascular fitness
- Community organization
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Education
- Exercise
- Obesity in adolescence
- Obesity in children
- Parks
- Parks, Recreational
- Pediatric epidemiology
- Physical Activity
- Physical Fitness
- Resilience (Personality trait) in adolescence
- Resilience (Personality trait) in children
- Transportation
- Youth
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Global Scholarship
- Research
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Selected Grants
- Addressing disparities to improve childhood obesity treatment awarded by American Heart Association 2022 - 2025
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Fellowships, Supported Research, & Other Grants
- Youth Engagement in Sports awarded by CPIMP191183-01-00, US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health 2019 - 2021
- Youth Development Award awarded by RFP 2018-02 Youth Development, The Children’s Trust, Miami-Dade County, FL 2018 - 2023
- Fit2Lead Youth Enrichment and Sports Program awarded by Miami-Dade County, FL 2016
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Academic Articles
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D’Agostino, Emily M., Sophia E. Day, Kevin J. Konty, Sarah C. Armstrong, Asheley C. Skinner, and Cody D. Neshteruk. “Longitudinal Association between Weight Status, Aerobic Capacity, Muscular Strength, and Endurance among New York City Youth, 2010-2017.” Child Obes, June 27, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1089/chi.2022.0034.Full Text Link to Item
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Carrillo, Gabriel A., Michael Cohen-Wolkowiez, Emily M. D’Agostino, Keith Marsolo, Lisa M. Wruck, Laura Johnson, James Topping, Al Richmond, Giselle Corbie, and Warren A. Kibbe. “Standardizing, Harmonizing, and Protecting Data Collection to Broaden the Impact of COVID-19 Research: The Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics-Underserved Populations (RADx-up) Initiative.” J Am Med Inform Assoc, June 9, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocac097.Full Text Link to Item
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Neshteruk, Cody D., Katherine Norman, Sarah C. Armstrong, Rushina Cholera, Emily D’Agostino, and Asheley C. Skinner. “Association between parenthood and cardiovascular disease risk: Analysis from NHANES 2011-2016.” Prev Med Rep 27 (June 2022): 101820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101820.Full Text Link to Item
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Konty, K. J., S. E. Day, M. D. Napier, E. Irvin, H. R. Thompson, and E. M. D’Agostino. “Context, importance, and process for creating a body mass index surveillance system to monitor childhood obesity within the New York City public school setting.” Preventive Medicine Reports 26 (April 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101704.Full Text
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D’Agostino, Emily M., Emily E. Haroz, Sandra Linde, Marcus Layer, Melissa Green, and Linda K. Ko. “School-Academic Partnerships in Support of Safe Return to Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Pediatrics 149, no. 12 Suppl 2 (February 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2021-054268C.Full Text Link to Item
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Ko, Linda K., Lauren Tingey, Magaly Ramirez, Elliott Pablo, Ryan Grass, Francene Larzelere, Oralia Cisneros, Helen Y. Chu, and Emily M. D’Agostino. “Mobilizing Established School Partnerships to Reach Underserved Children During a Global Pandemic.” Pediatrics 149, no. 12 Suppl 2 (February 1, 2022). https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2021-054268F.Full Text Link to Item
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Flórez, Karen R., Sophia E. Day, Terry T-K Huang, Kevin J. Konty, and Emily M. D’Agostino. “Latino Children's Obesity Risk Varies by Place of Birth: Findings from New York City Public School Youth, 2006-2017.” Child Obes, November 16, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1089/chi.2021.0056.Full Text Link to Item
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Granados, Isa, Elizabeth L. Haderer, Emily M. D’Agostino, Cody D. Neshteruk, Sarah C. Armstrong, and Asheley C. Skinner. “The Association Between Neighborhood Public Transportation Usage and Youth Physical Activity.” Am J Prev Med 61, no. 5 (November 2021): 733–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2021.04.035.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, E. M., M. Urtel, C. A. Webster, J. McMullen, and B. Culp. “Virtual Physical Education During COVID-19: Exploring Future Directions for Equitable Online Learning Tools.” Frontiers in Sports and Active Living 3 (August 26, 2021). https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2021.716566.Full Text
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D’Agostino, Emily M., Sarah C. Armstrong, Emily P. Alexander, Truls Østbye, Cody D. Neshteruk, and Asheley C. Skinner. “Predictors and Patterns of Physical Activity From Transportation Among United States Youth, 2007-2016.” J Adolesc Health 69, no. 2 (August 2021): 263–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2021.03.028.Full Text Link to Item
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Thompson, Hannah R., Andjelka Pavlovic, Emily D’Agostino, Melanie D. Napier, Kevin Konty, and Sophia E. Day. “The association between student body mass index and tests of flexibility assessed by the FITNESSGRAM®: New York City public school students, 2017-18.” Plos One 16, no. 12 (2021): e0262083. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262083.Full Text Link to Item
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Conference Papers
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Chung, Nicky, Emily D’Agostino, Truls Ostbye, Jason Jones, and Annette Smith. “FEASIBILITY OF GOING PLACES: A PARK-BASED ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION TOOLBOX TO PROMOTE YOUTH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND ACCESS TO HEALTHY COMMUNITY SPACES.” In Journal of Transport & Health, Vol. 22, 2021.Link to Item
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
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Advising & Mentoring
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Hersila Patel, University of Miami, Master of Public Health Program (2016-present)
Deidre Okeke, Florida International University, Master of Public Health Program (2016-present)
Hannah Kling, University of Miami, Master of Public Health Program (2017-present)
Ja’Mese Booth, Florida International University, Master of Public Health (2018-present)
Emily Hawver, University of Miami, Nursing Program (2019-present)
Nicky Chung, Duke University School of Medicine (2019-present)
Available to mentor:
- Affiliate
- PhD
- Post-Doc
- Professional
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- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- How should future epidemiologists learn epidemiology? . Society for Epidemiologic Research Conference . Society for Epidemiologic Research . 2020 2020
- Objective measurement of physical activity attributed to a park-based afterschool program. The Active Living Research Conference (2020) . 2020 2020
- After-School Park Internship Program for Urban Teens at High-Risk for Violence Exposure: A CBPR Approach to Poly-Strengths Programming. ResilienceCon Conference . 2019 2019
- Differences in the Association between Residential Segregation and Youth Cardiovascular Health Risk across Gender and Transportation Vulnerability. Georgia State University Community Geography Annual Conference . 2019 2019
- Differences in the effects of student, school and neighborhood poverty on the association between fitness changes and absenteeism in New York City middle school youth. The Active Living Research Conference . 2019 2019
- Longitudinal Population-Level Health-Related Fitness Patterns in New York City Public School Children and Adolescents, 2006-2017. Society for Epidemiologic Research Conference. Society for Epidemiologic Research. 2019 2019
- New York City Youth Cardiovascular Fitness and Subsequent School Absenteeism Have an Inverse, Dose-Response Relationship, Regardless of How Poverty is Measured. EPI Lifestyle. American Heart Association. 2019 2019
- Teaching Epidemiology for Undergraduate Students: Empowering and Student-Centered Learning. Urban Studies 220, Profs. Sherry Baron and Alfredo Morabia. City University of New York, Queens College. 2019 2019
- Changes in Cardiovascular Health and Physical Fitness in Youth with Disabilities Participating in a Park-Based Afterschool Program for Two Years. The American Public Health Association Annual Meeting . APHA. 2018 2018
- The economic stability of a healthy community: Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department. Aetna Foundation/South Florida Business Journal . 2018 2018
- Examining the longitudinal association of fitness and chronic absenteeism in New York City 6th-8th grade youth over four years. New York City Epidemiology Forum. New York University School of Medicine. 2017 2017
- Parks and recreation—making fitness fun for kids. University of Miami Mailman Center for Child Development Community Health IPC Innovation & Connection Conference . University of Miami School of Medicine. 2017 2017
- Stepping Out of Our Comfort Zones: Moving Beyond Mental Health Clinics and Delivering Services to Children in Their Natural Environments. 51st Association for Behavioral Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention . 2017 2017
- ISSUES: M-D Parks’ Fit2Lead Program – Helping Local Youth. WPBT2 South Florida PBS. 2016 2016
- Impact of a park-based afterschool healthy weight program on modifiable cardiovascular disease risk factors in youth over 6 years of implementation. The American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. APHA. 2016 2016
- Miami-Dade Parks: Fit2Lead & Fit2Play. NBC6. 2016 2016
- The effect of gender on the causal longitudinal association of change in fitness on absenteeism in NYC middle school youth. The American Public Health Association Annual Meeting. APHA. 2016 2016
- Workforce capacity building in after-school settings: Training paraprofessionals to promote youth mental health. 50th Association for Behavioral Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention. 2016 2016
- Being Brand New in the NYC DOE. New York City United Federation of Teachers New Teacher Reception Invited Speaker. New York City United Federation of Teachers. 2004 2004
- Cross-comparative population analyses of infant thermal care practices across cultural groups. Victorian SIDS Research Forum and National SIDS Council of Australia Forum . 1996 1996
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Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
- Reviewer. American Journal of Public Health. 2019 2019
- Reviewer. BMJ Open . 2019 2019
- Reviewer. Epidemiology . 2019 2019
- Reviewer. Health & Place . 2019 2019
- Reviewer. Jornal de Pediatria . 2018 2018
- Reviewer. Preventing Chronic Disease . 2018 2018
- Reviewer. Preventive Medicine Reports . 2018 2018
- Reviewer. Society for Epidemiology Research Annual Meeting . 2018 2018
- Assistant Producer, American Journal of Public Health Monthly Podcast. APHA. 2017 2017
- Reviewer. American Journal of Epidemiology . 2017 2017
- Reviewer. American Public Health Association, Annual Meeting & Expo . 2017 2017
- Reviewer. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology . 2017 2017
- Reviewer. Preventive Medicine . 2017 2017
- Reviewer. Pediatrics . 2016 2016
- Reviewer. Journal of Urban Health . 2014 2014
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Service to the Profession
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