A5033714667- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Social Media in Health Education
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Physical Activity and Health
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
- Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Pain Management and Opioid Use
- Risk Perception and Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
Stanford University
2020-2024
University of Pennsylvania
2016-2020
Palo Alto Institute
2020
To identify what features of online social networks can increase physical activity, we conducted a 4-arm randomized controlled trial in 2014 Philadelphia, PA. Students (n = 790, mean age 25.2) at an university were randomly assigned to one four conditions composed either supportive or competitive relationships and with individual team incentives for attending exercise classes. The comparison condition placed participants into 6-person incentives. support teams combined both teams, where...
Insufficient scientific evidence about electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) has led to conflicting recommendations (CRs) by credible organizations, creating a public health debate that could prove especially difficult reconcile as current and former smokers make decisions whether use e-cigarettes. To investigate how CRs e-cigarettes may affect intentions engage in healthy behaviors, 717 were randomly exposed one of five conditions (varying the level conflict recommendations) this...
Abstract Compounding hazards are becoming more common due to global environmental change. To build societal resilience, there is a need focus on how people made vulnerable by our social, political, and economic systems that turn into disasters. Incremental adaptation, often piecemeal hazard-specific actions, will be insufficient for keeping pace with the rapid changes already underway. Instead, transformative adaptation necessary meeting this need, although pathways create as opposed...
Abstract Climate change poses a growing threat to the lives and livelihoods of more than three billion people living in highly vulnerable areas. Despite recent financing designated for climate adaptation, current support is only fraction what needed lags behind accelerating pace impacts. To achieve equitable sustainable we propose four evidence-based guidelines funding developing adaptation projects: uphold community autonomy, be transformative, avoid maladaptation, integrate across sectors....
Abstract Exposure to climate hazards is increasing, and the experiences of frontline communities warrant meaningful urgent attention towards how mitigate, manage, adapt hazards. We report results from a community-engaged pilot (November 2021–June 2022) N = 30 participants in four San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA. The study region an area where low-income, non-English-speaking residents are inequitably exposed vulnerable wildfire smoke, extreme heat, other Building yearslong...
Climate-related health hazards pose grave risks to human and well-being. Individual-level behavioral response is critical given increasingly severe climate-related hazards, such as wildfire smoke, co-occurring with other COVID-19. Existing models of behavior traditionally focus on the role threat efficacy appraisals; however, social factors, norms support, are also interest scholars policymakers. We examine how appraisal, along descriptive related intentions in smoke Using survey data from a...
Social experiments such as randomized control trials (RCTs), which rely on systematic assessment in highly structured environments, are a robust approach to design and evaluate actionable scalable solutions address global environmental change threats. RCTs' implementation can be challenging, especially when involving actual actors decision contexts—that is, they possess level of humanity that defies scholars' ability all the variables shape their results. Rather than "failures" threatening...
Abstract Background Prenatal depression can have lasting adverse impacts on child health. Little is known about the impact of floods prenatal in low- and middle-income countries. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional survey 881 pregnant women from September 24, 2023 to July 19, 2024 riverine communities rural Bangladesh. recorded participant-reported flooding past 6 months, administered Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS), obtained water level data remote sensing distance surface...
Abstract A hurricane is highly dynamic, evolving over minutes, hours, and days. It can change in intensity, track, translational speed, all of which the hazards from wind, tornado, storm surge, inland flooding. sophisticated meteorological observation network exists to observe hurricanes time, monitor, understand, forecast their evolution. reasonable think that people also are response risks. Yet, very little known about how perceive respond risks time because developing such knowledge...
When a plant is battered and nearly destroyed by the rain, its survival uncertain, but as sun comes up shines on it, starts to recover. Over time, not only does get better it also back stronger. This growth, can happen us too after an adversity. An adversity something that very difficult deal with causes be upset, have unhappy thoughts, might even make cry. But what if good come from bad experience? What we learn helps different, maybe than before? Growth just about getting bigger; mean...