Aaron Hipp
Associate Director of Social and Behavioral Science Applications
Mapping a Dynamic Planet, Built Environments and Human Health
Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management
Bio
As Associate Director of Social and Behavioral Science Applications, Aaron identifies and facilitates new collaborations between the Center and social science researchers across NC State, and advances geospatial community engagement with an equity lens. His work considers how, where and why public built environments impact health behaviors such as physical activity and recreation. He develops crowdsourcing approaches and uses emerging sensor technologies to study and visualize the interaction between built environments and community health behaviors. He is currently using webcams, web apps, GPS, and accelerometers in data collection. Other interests include infrastructure that supports workplace health, park use and accessibility, and geospatial decision support systems.
Publications
- Food deserts exposure, density of fast-food restaurants, and park access: Exploring the association of food and recreation environments with obesity and diabetes using global and local regression models , PLOS ONE (2024)
- Identifying multilevel predictors of behavioral outcomes like park use: A comparison of conditional and marginal modeling approaches , PLOS ONE (2024)
- Association of composite park quality with park use in four diverse cities , PREVENTIVE MEDICINE REPORTS (2023)
- Associations Between Neighborhood Opportunity and Indicators of Physical Fitness for New York City Public School Youth , CHILDHOOD OBESITY (2023)
- Better Health is Right Outside Your Door , (2023)
- Can good microscale pedestrian streetscapes enhance the benefits of macroscale accessible urban form? An automated audit approach using Google street view images , LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING (2023)
- Longitudinal Associations Between Neighborhood Child Opportunity and Physical Fitness for New York City Public School Youth , AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY (2023)
- Need and Interest in Nature Prescriptions to Protect Cardiovascular and Mental Health: A Nationally-Representative Study With Insights for Future Randomised Trials , HEART LUNG AND CIRCULATION (2023)
- Paying for nature‐based solutions: A review of funding and financing mechanisms for ecosystem services and their impacts on social equity , Sustainable Development (2023)
- The relationship between greenspace exposure and telomere length in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey , SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (2023)