Philippa J Clarke
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Dr. Clarke received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology/Social Science and Health from the University of Toronto in 2000. Her research interests are in social epidemiology, social gerontology, life course perspectives, models of disability, and population health. She is primarily interested in the social determinants of health at both the micro and macro levels of social reality and at the intersection of these levels as well.
Her current work examines the role of the built environment on mobility disability, cognitive function, and social participation (with data from the Chicago Community Adult Health Survey); the effect of the urban environment on disability trajectories over time (with national data from the Americans’ Changing Lives Study); the health and social factors influencing the use of assistive devices (with data from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging); and cross-national disparities in disability and psychosocial resources (comparing data from the US Health and Retirement Study and the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing). She is currently funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through a career development (K01) award to use geographic information systems (GIS) to examine the relationship between the built environment and disability progression, and to identify whether older adults living in less accessible neighborhoods are more likely to be admitted to a nursing home over time.
- 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
- Kimberly Rollings, Grace Noppert, Jennifer J. Griggs, Andrew M. Ibrahim, Philippa J Clarke. 2024. Comparing Deprivation vs Vulnerability Index Performance Using Medicare Beneficiary Surgical Outcomes. JAMA Surgery
- Jessica Marie Finlay, Bohyun Jang, Michael Esposito, Leslie McClure, Suzanne Judd, Philippa J Clarke. 2023. 'My neighbourhood is fuzzy, not hard and fast': Individual and contextual associations with perceived residential neighbourhood boundaries among ageing Americans. Urban Studies 60(1):85-108.