Emily Meredith D'Agostino
Assistant Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health
Emily D'Agostino, DrPH, MS, MEd, MA, is a pediatric cardiovascular epidemiologist specializing in community-based interventions. Her research expertise lies in partnering with community organizations to examine structural and social factors that promote youth 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 Family Medicine and Community Health. 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. 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
Youth physical activity; 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 in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Clinical Science Departments 2019
- Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences, Basic Science Departments 2019
Contact Information
- Box 104006 DUMC, Durham, NC 27705
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emily.m.dagostino@duke.edu
(919) 660-2898
- 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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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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FEB 3, 2021 Duke Health News -
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SEP 20, 2019 ERDC NY -
SEP 19, 2019 Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) -
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OCT 15, 2018 CBS Miami -
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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) -
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JAN 2, 2018 Ottoson Middle School: Physical Education and Health. -
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MAR 10, 2017 New York University -
NOV 23, 2016 WPBT2 South Florida PBS -
AUG 1, 2016 NBC6
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Awards & Honors
- 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
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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
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External Relationships
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Academic Articles
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Zewdie, Hiwot, Amy Y. Zhao, Hersila H. Patel, Eric Hansen, Sarah E. Messiah, Sarah C. Armstrong, Asheley C. Skinner, Cody D. Neshteruk, J Aaron Hipp, and Emily M. D’Agostino. “The Association Between Neighborhood Quality, Youth Physical Fitness, and Modifiable Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors.” Ann Epidemiol, February 14, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2021.02.004.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M., Sarah C. Armstrong, Lisa Humphreys, Stacey Coffman, Gordon Sinclair, Sallie R. Permar, and Ibukunoluwa C. Akinboyo. “Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Transmission in Youth and Staff Attending Day Camps.” Pediatrics, February 3, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-042416.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M. “Invited Commentary: Epidemiologic Methods as Applied to Epidemiology Education-Goals and Expectations to Advance and Diversify the Field.” Am J Epidemiol 190, no. 2 (February 1, 2021): 313–16. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaa179.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M., and Asheley C. Skinner. “Critically Evaluating Youth Body Mass Index Trajectories: Implications for Health Versus Stigma.” American Journal of Public Health 110, no. 11 (November 2020): 1599–1600. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2020.305928.Full Text
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D’Agostino, Emily M., Hersila H. Patel, Eric Hansen, M Sunil Mathew, and Sarah E. Messiah. “Longitudinal Effects of Transportation Vulnerability on the Association Between Racial/Ethnic Segregation and Youth Cardiovascular Health.” J Racial Ethn Health Disparities, September 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-020-00821-8.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M. “Teens learning epidemiology? A cohort study on epidemiology instruction for high school youth.” Ann Epidemiol 47 (July 2020): 8–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2020.05.010.Full Text Link to Item
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Day, Sophia E., Emily M. D’Agostino, Terry T-K Huang, Michael Larkin, Lindsey Harr, and Kevin J. Konty. “Continued Decline in Obesity and Severe Obesity Prevalence Among New York City Public School Youth in Grades K-8: 2011-2017.” Obesity (Silver Spring) 28, no. 3 (March 2020): 638–46. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.22732.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily, Stacy L. Frazier, Eric Hansen, Maria I. Nardi, and Sarah E. Messiah. “Association of a Park-Based Violence Prevention and Mental Health Promotion After-School Program With Youth Arrest Rates.” Jama Netw Open 3, no. 1 (January 3, 2020): e1919996. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.19996.Full Text Link to Item
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Konty, Kevin J., Sophia E. Day, Michael Larkin, Hannah R. Thompson, and Emily M. D’Agostino. “Physical fitness disparities among New York City public school youth using standardized methods, 2006-2017.” Plos One 15, no. 4 (2020): e0227185. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227185.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M. “High School Epidemiology: Helping Students Practice Science Through Guided Inquiry and Authentic Learning Strategies.” Pedagogy in Health Promotion 5, no. 4 (December 2019): 293–98. https://doi.org/10.1177/2373379918811822.Full Text
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D’Agostino, Emily M., and Nicholas Freudenberg. “Population Thinking Instruction in High Schools: a Public Health Intervention with Triple Benefits.” J Urban Health 96, no. 6 (December 2019): 902–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-019-00383-z.Full Text Link to Item
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Messiah, Sarah E., Emily M. D’Agostino, Hersila H. Patel, Eric Hansen, Matthew Sunil Mathew, and Kristopher L. Arheart. “Changes in cardiovascular health and physical fitness in ethnic youth with intellectual disabilities participating in a park-based afterschool programme for two years.” J Appl Res Intellect Disabil 32, no. 6 (November 2019): 1478–89. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12642.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M., Sophia E. Day, Kevin J. Konty, Michael Larkin, and Katarzyna Wyka. “The effects of student, school and neighborhood poverty on the association between fitness and absenteeism in New York City middle school youth.” Prev Med 127 (October 2019): 105820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.105820.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M., Stacy L. Frazier, Eric Hansen, Hersila H. Patel, Zafar Ahmed, Deidre Okeke, Maria I. Nardi, and Sarah E. Messiah. “Two-Year Changes in Neighborhood Juvenile Arrests After Implementation of a Park-Based Afterschool Mental Health Promotion Program in Miami-Dade County, Florida, 2015-2017.” Am J Public Health 109, no. S3 (June 2019): S214–20. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305050.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M., WayWay M. Hlaing, and James H. Stark. “Teaching on the Continuum: Epidemiology Education From High School Through Graduate School.” Am J Epidemiol 188, no. 6 (June 1, 2019): 979–86. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwz059.Full Text Link to Item
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Cromer, Kelly D., Emily M. D’Agostino, Eric Hansen, Caitlin Alfonso, and Stacy L. Frazier. “After-school poly-strengths programming for urban teens at high risk for violence exposure.” Transl Behav Med 9, no. 3 (May 16, 2019): 541–48. https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibz013.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M., Hersila H. Patel, Eric Hansen, M Sunil Mathew, Maria I. Nardi, and Sarah E. Messiah. “Does transportation vulnerability explain the relationship between changes in exposure to segregation and youth cardiovascular health?” Health Place 57 (May 2019): 265–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.04.002.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M. “Recruiting epidemiologists: A developmental perspective on expanding epidemiology exposure for adolescents.” Prev Med 121 (April 2019): 105–8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.02.014.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M., Hersila H. Patel, and Eric Hansen. “Abstract P125: Cardiovascular Health Improves in High Transportation Vulnerable Girls With Decreased Exposures to Residential Segregation.” Circulation 139, no. Suppl_1 (March 5, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1161/circ.139.suppl_1.p125.Full Text
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D’Agostino, Emily M., Sophia E. Day, Kevin J. Konty, and Katarzyna Wyka. “Abstract 018: New York City Youth Cardiovascular Fitness and Subsequent School Absenteeism Have an Inverse, Dose-Response Relationship, Regardless of How Poverty is Measured.” Circulation 139, no. Suppl_1 (March 5, 2019). https://doi.org/10.1161/circ.139.suppl_1.018.Full Text
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D’Agostino, Emily M. “Kenya Brown’s Summer of Opportunity: Where Schools, STEM Learning, and Health Inequalities Meet.” American Journal of Public Health 109, no. 1 (January 2019): 12–14. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2018.304821.Full Text
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Kling, Hannah E., Emily M. D’Agostino, Ja’mese V. Booth, Hersila Patel, Eric Hansen, M Sunil Mathew, and Sarah E. Messiah. “The Effect of a Park-Based Physical Activity Program on Cardiovascular, Strength, and Mobility Outcomes Among a Sample of Racially/Ethnically Diverse Adults Aged 55 or Older.” Prev Chronic Dis 15 (December 27, 2018): E166. https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd15.180326.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M. “Letter to the Editor: "Expanding epidemiology in secondary schools: a call to epidemiologists".” Ann Epidemiol 28, no. 9 (September 2018): 653–54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2018.04.007.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M., Hersila H. Patel, Zafar Ahmed, Eric Hansen, M Sunil Mathew, Maria I. Nardi, and Sarah E. Messiah. “Natural experiment examining the longitudinal association between change in residential segregation and youth cardiovascular health across race/ethnicity and gender in the USA.” J Epidemiol Community Health 72, no. 7 (July 2018): 595–604. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2018-210592.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M., Sophia E. Day, Kevin J. Konty, Michael Larkin, Subir Saha, and Katarzyna Wyka. “The Association of Health-Related Fitness and Chronic Absenteeism Status in New York City Middle School Youth.” Journal of Physical Activity & Health 15, no. 7 (July 2018): 483–91. https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2017-0388.Full Text
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Messiah, Sarah E., Emily M. D’Agostino, Hersila H. Patel, Eric Hansen, M Sunil Mathew, and Kristopher L. Arheart. “Sex differences in fitness outcomes among minority youth after participation in a park-based after-school program.” Ann Epidemiol 28, no. 7 (July 2018): 432–39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2018.03.020.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, E. M., H. H. Patel, E. Hansen, M. S. Mathew, M. I. Nardi, and S. E. Messiah. “Effect of participation in a park-based afterschool program on cardiovascular disease risk among severely obese youth.” Public Health 159 (June 2018): 137–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2018.02.025.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M., Hersila H. Patel, Zafar Ahmed, Eric Hansen, M. Sunil Mathew, Maria I. Nardi, and Sarah E. Messiah. “Impact of change in neighborhood racial/ethnic segregation on cardiovascular health in minority youth attending a park-based afterschool program.” Soc Sci Med 205 (May 2018): 116–29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.03.038.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M., Hersila H. Patel, Eric Hansen, M Sunil Mathew, Maria Nardi, and Sarah E. Messiah. “Longitudinal analysis of cardiovascular disease risk profile in neighbourhood poverty subgroups: 5-year results from an afterschool fitness programme in the USA.” J Epidemiol Community Health 72, no. 3 (March 2018): 193–201. https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2017-209333.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M., Sophia E. Day, Kevin J. Konty, Michael Larkin, Subir Saha, and Katarzyna Wyka. “The association of fitness and school absenteeism across gender and poverty: a prospective multilevel analysis in New York City middle schools.” Annals of Epidemiology 28, no. 3 (March 2018): 189–96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2017.12.010.Full Text
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D’Agostino, Emily. “Public Health Education: Teaching Epidemiology in High School Classrooms.” Am J Public Health 108, no. 3 (March 2018): 324–28. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2017.304216.Full Text Link to Item
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Messiah, Sarah E., Emily M. D’Agostino, Eric Hansen, M Sunil Mathew, Deidre Okeke, Maria Nardi, Jack Kardys, and Kristopher L. Arheart. “Longitudinal Impact of a Park-Based Afterschool Healthy Weight Program on Modifiable Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Youth.” J Community Health 43, no. 1 (February 2018): 103–16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-017-0393-9.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily M., Sophia E. Day, Kevin J. Konty, Michael Larkin, Subir Saha, and Katarzyna Wyka. “Individual-Level Fitness and Absenteeism in New York City Middle School Youths, 2006-2013.” Preventing Chronic Disease 15 (January 11, 2018): E05. https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd15.170152.Full Text
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D’Agostino, Emily. “An unanswered call: where is multilevel modeling in male infertility research involving semen parameters?” Fertility and Sterility, January 5, 2018.Link to Item
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Warren, Michelle P., Russalind H. Ramos, and Emily M. Bronson. “Exercise-associated amenorrhea: are altered leptin levels an early warning sign?” Phys Sportsmed 30, no. 10 (October 2002): 41–46. https://doi.org/10.3810/psm.2002.10.495.Full Text Link to Item
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D’Agostino, Emily, Hannah Kling, Ja’mese Booth, Eric Hansen, Emily Hawver, Sunil Mathew, and Sarah E. Messiah. “The Feasibility of Collecting Longitudinal Cardiovascular and Fitness Outcomes from a Neighborhood Park-Based Fitness Program in Ethnically Diverse Older Adults: A Proof-of-Concept Study.” Journal of Aging and Physical Activity, n.d.
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Patel, Hersila H., Sarah E. Messiah, Eric Hansen, and Emily M. D’Agostino. “The relationship between transportation vulnerability, school attendance, and free transportation to an afterschool program for youth.” Transportation, n.d. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-020-10131-x.Full Text
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Other Articles
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D’Agostino, Emily, Stacy Frazier, Eric Hansen, and Sarah Messiah. “The Fit2Lead Program: Preventing Youth Violence in a Park-Based Setting.” Parks & Recreation, n.d.Link to Item
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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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)
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Teaching Activities
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PHYASST.255.01.F19 Evidence Based Practice, Small Group Instructor
Routine invited lecturer on epidemiology instructional methods for high school, undergraduate, and graduate student levels.
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PHYASST.255.01.F19 Evidence Based Practice, Small Group Instructor
- 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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