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Neighborhood Impacts on Human Health: A Mixed Methods Approach
Cubed
StatusCubed
Elizabeth
Roberts
LSA: Social Sciences
Belinda
Needham
Public Health
Deborah
Watkins
Public Health
Accomplishments
...
StatusCubed
Cube Size
Classic Cube ($60K)
Category
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Mcubed 2.0
Description

Neighborhood characteristics such as deteriorating housing, crime levels and rental instability can affect human health, from changes in weight to accelerated cellular aging. We are an interdisciplinary research team working within ELEMENT (Early Life Exposures in Mexico to ENvironmental Toxicants), an ongoing, 20-year birth cohort that has collected biological samples and physical assessments from 600 mother-child pairs located throughout Mexico City. Recently, detailed ethnographic information has been collected on ELEMENT families and neighborhoods, which will allow us to examine how housing turnover and insecurity affect susceptibility to environmental chemicals and influence anthropometry and molecular measures of health (DNA methylation, telomere length). By linking molecular, epidemiological, and environmental information to ethnographically observed neighborhood conditions we can investigate how neighborhoods get under the skin. 

Accomplishments (6)

Neighborhood Environments as Socio-Techno-bio Systems: Water Quality, Public Trust, and Health in Mexico City

External Proposal / Grant
Neighborhood Environments as Socio-Techno-bio Systems: Water Quality, Public Trust, and Health in Mexico...

$1,000,000 grant from the National Science Foundation

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Gendered Environments: Making Global Health Knowledge in Working-Class Mexico City Neighborhoods

Internal Proposal / Grant
Gendered Environments: Making Global Health Knowledge in Working-Class Mexico City Neighborhoods

$7,500 grant from the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) Sister Fund for Global Health

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Bioethnography: Developing New Methods in Epidemiological and Anthropological Research

Presentation
Bioethnography: Developing New Methods in Epidemiological and Anthropological Research

Presented at Collaborations Across Anthropology and Genetics: Examples of Transdisciplinary Work, New Orleans, LA

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What Gets Inside: Protective Porosity in Mexico City

Presentation
What Gets Inside: Protective Porosity in Mexico City

Presented at the STS Colloquium, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

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Bio-ethnography: A How to Guide for the Twenty First Century

Publication
Bio-ethnography: A How to Guide for the Twenty First Century

Published in A Handbook of Biology and Society

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What Gets Inside: Violent Entanglements and Toxic Boundaries in Mexico City

Publication
What Gets Inside: Violent Entanglements and Toxic Boundaries in Mexico City

Published in Cultural Anthropology

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Keywords
Health,
Mexico City,
Public Health,
Anthropology,
Exposure,
Telomeres,
Ethnography,
Neighborhoods
Project ID
1496
Project Posted By
Elizabeth Roberts (LSA: Social Sciences)

Team

Elizabeth
Roberts
LSA: Social Sciences
Belinda
Needham
Public Health
Deborah
Watkins
Public Health

Additional Faculty

Additional Personnel

David Palma, Neighborhood Coordinator, LSA: Social Sciences, Anthropology,UM-AA
Camilo Sanz, Postdoctoral Fellow, LSA: Social Sciences, Anthropology, UM-AA; Mary Leighton, Postdoctoral Fellow, LSA: Social Sciences, Anthropology, UM-AA
Kristi Allgood, Graduate Student, School of Public Health, Epidemiology, UM-AA; Hannah Marcovitch, Undergraduate Student, LSA: Social Sciences, Anthropology, UM-AA

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