Columbia Spatial Epidemiology Lab

STAFF SPOTLIGHT: Alicia Singham Goodwin is a masters student studying Epidemiology at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and is a Graduate Research Assistant in Columbia’s Spatial Epidemiology Lab. Her previous work includes research and data management at Integrate Health, an HIV clinic in Togo, West Africa, as well as working as a computer programmer and in programming education. Alicia has lived in NYC for five years and is passionate about the city's neighborhoods and subways, ranging from involvement in local housing and transit advocacy groups to hobbies like hosting transit trivia and attempting to visit every subway stop in the system.

STAFF SPOTLIGHT: Dr Liadh Timmins is a postdoctoral research scientist in the Columbia Spatial Epidemiology Lab. They are behavioral and social psychologist who conducts research on health behaviors, mental health, and sexual and gender minority health. Their previous work has focused on the biopsychosocial mechanisms by which mental health problems develop in gender and sexual minorities, with a focus on the differences between different groups. At the lab, Liadh conducts in...tersectional research on the relationships between neighborhoods, minority stress, psychological factors and health in sexual minority men and transgender women. They also advocate for the inclusion and equality of LGBT+ staff and students at universities. Liadh is from Ireland and completed their PhD in the United Kingdom. In their free time, Liadh enjoys playing board games and going to gigs. See more

Today Dr. Duncan’s first undergraduate mentee (William Goedel) defended his dissertation at Brown University School of Public Health via Zoom. Despite not being able to be there in person in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Duncan is incredibly proud of Dr. William Goedel. Go Will! We’re incredibly proud of your accomplishments and your contributions to science! #PhDone

Columbia’s Built Environment and Health Research Group (led by our colleague and Spatial Epidemiology Lab affiliate Dr. Andrew Rundle) worked with Policymap.com to map at risk populations for severe COVID-19. The map below shows Counties in purple with high numbers of adults 65 years or older and low availability of hospital beds. You can view the map on this post and explore it further using the following weblink: https://beh.columbia.edu//at-risk-populations-for-severe-/

Professors Dustin Duncan and Rusi Jaspal (from Nottingham Trent University in the U.K.) recently met at Dr. Duncan’s office at Columbia University to discuss their new HIV epidemiology collaboration on a study of Black sexual minority men (SMM) in London to build on Columbia’s Spatial Epidemiology Lab’s N2 Cohort Study of 600 Black SMM in Chicago, IL, Jackson, MS, and New Orleans and Baton Rouge, LA. #N2 #GlobalHealth #MinorityStress #HIVPrevention

Columbia Mailman School of Public Health doctoral student & Dr. Duncan's doctoral mentee (Jonathan Russell) gave a fantastic presentation on his research this past summer on associations between post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol-related hospitalizations at the NYC Epidemiology Forum last Friday. #NYCEF

We (Columbia’s Spatial Epidemiology Lab) recently had a lab retreat! It was a big success. Pictured, from left to right: Dustin Duncan, Jordyn Smith, Gia Love, Yen-Tyng Chen, Byoungjun Kim, Denton Callander, Roberta Scheinmann and Liadh Timmins. Not pictured: Yazan Al-Ajlouni, Jonathan Russell, Maya Wong, Matthew Stolman, Justin Knox and Alicia Singham Goodwin.... #spatialepi #labretreat #healthlab #publichealth

As Dr. Dustin Duncan begins to pen his new book in 2020 (to be published in 2021), this is a chance to purchase his newest book with Harvard’s Drs. Ichiro Kawachi and Susan Redline titled The Social Epidemiology of Sleep. https://global.oup.com//the-social-epidemiology-of-sleep-9&

Columbia Spatial Epidemiology Lab was a sponsor of the nycHealthy, in collaboration with the KIKI coalition annual Red Ball at the Brooklyn EXPO Center. Check out some pictures from the event!