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Philippa Clarke is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research. Her work focuses on the intersection of social epidemiology, social gerontology, and health equity, examining how neighborhood environments influence cognitive aging, disability, and health outcomes across the life course.
- Education:
- PhD, Public Health (2000), University of Toronto
- MSc, Public Health (1996), University of Toronto
- BA, Psychology (1987), McGill University
She directs the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA), a national repository of contextual data for studying health inequalities. Her research integrates innovative methods like Google Street View and Systematic Social Observation to measure environmental factors, with recent projects analyzing disparities in type 2 diabetes, cognitive decline, and COVID-19 impacts across urban and rural settings.
Her publications span social epidemiology, disability studies, and environmental health, emphasizing the role of neighborhood walkability, social infrastructure, and policy interventions in promoting healthy aging. She has contributed to understanding racial disparities in health outcomes and developed frameworks like 'Cognability' to link urban design with cognitive resilience.
Her methodological work on virtual neighborhood audits has set standards for environmental health research, and she collaborates across disciplines to address aging with disability, stroke recovery, and public health policy. Current projects examine how neighborhood socioeconomic history and environmental exposures shape later-life cognition and metabolic diseases.
