Philippa J Clarke
Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Faculty Associate, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
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Dr. Clarke received her graduate training in Epidemiology/Social Science and Health from the University of Toronto. She is a social epidemiologist and social gerontologist with substantive and methodological expertise in the role of the environment for healthy aging and disability. Her research examines the role of neighborhood built, physical, and social environments for disability, cognitive function, and social participation. She also directs the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA), a nationwide repository of publicly available contextual data spanning over two decades.
- Viktoryia Alexandrovna Kalesnikava, Kahsay, Eskira, Zhong, Chuwen, Spring, Emma, Bagge, Courtney, Sarah Andrea Burgard, Briana Mezuk, Philippa J Clarke. 2025. Area Socioeconomic Inequality and Suicide Mortality: Contrasting Common Measures using National Violent Death Reporting System and Linked Administrative Data. American Journal of Epidemiology
- Kate Duchowny, Yuan Zhang, Philippa J Clarke, Allison E. Aiello, Grace Noppert. 2025. Examining the relationship between biomarkers of immune aging and prevalent physical disability in the health and retirement study. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity 125:140-147.
- Nasya Tan, Martin Forchheimer, Denise G. Tate, Michelle A. Meade, Lisa Reber, Philippa J Clarke. 2024. Social Integration Among Adults Aging With Spinal Cord Injury: The Role of Features in the Built and Natural Environment. Journal of Aging and Environment 38(3):275-289.
- Anam M. Khan, Paul Lin, Neil Kamdar, Elham Mahmoudi,, Kenzie Latham Mintus, Lindsay Kobayashi, Philippa J Clarke. 2024. Location Matters: The Role of the Neighborhood Environment for Incident Cardiometabolic Disease in Adults Aging With Physical Disability. American Journal of Health Promotion 38(5):633-640.
- Grace Noppert, Philippa J Clarke, Hoover, Andrew, Kubale, John, Robert A Melendez, Kate Duchowny, Hegde, Sonia T., Grace Noppert, Clarke, Philippa, Hoover, Andrew, Kubale, John, Melendez, Robert, Duchowny, Kate, Hegde, Sonia T.. 2024. State variation in neighborhood COVID-19 burden across the United States. Communications Medicine 4(1):1-12.
- Ketlyne Sol, Emily P. Morris, Ji Hyun Lee, Afsara B. Zaheed, Jordan D. Palms, Kiana Scambray, Philippa J Clarke, Laura Beth Zahodne. 2024. Histories of neighborhood socioeconomic status contribute to race differences in later‐life cognition. Alzheimer's & Dementia 20(5):3342-3351.
- Westrick, Ashly C., Ospina-Romero, Monica, Philippa J Clarke, Kenneth M Langa, Lindsay Kobayashi. 2024. Does neighborhood socioeconomic status alter memory change associated with a cancer diagnosis? Preliminary evidence from the US Health and Retirement Study. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 33(7):953-960.
- Grace Noppert, Philippa J Clarke, Stebbins, Rebecca C, Kate Duchowny, Robert A Melendez, Kimberly Rollings, Aiello, Allison E. 2024. The embodiment of the neighborhood socioeconomic environment in the architecture of the immune system. PNAS Nexus 3(7):pgae253.
- Laura Beth Zahodne, Ketlyne Sol, Kiana Scambray, Ji Hyun Lee, Jordan D. Palms, Emily P. Morris, Lauren Taylor, Vivian Ku, Mary Lesniak, Robert A Melendez, Michael R Elliott, Philippa J Clarke. 2024. Neighborhood racial income inequality and cognitive health. Alzheimer's & Dementia
- Kate Duchowny, Diaz-Ramirez, L Grisell, Boscardin, W John, Perera, Rohini, Lin-Gomez, Scarlett, Cawthon, Peggy M, Grace Noppert, Philippa J Clarke. 2024. The Neighborhood Environment and Handgrip Strength: Longitudinal Findings from the Health and Retirement Study. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A 79(11):glae242.