Peter James Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences
Trained in environmental health and epidemiology, Dr. James has
focused his research on estimating the influence of spatial
factors, including exposure to nature, the built environment, the
food environment, air pollution, light pollution, noise, and
socioeconomic factors, on health behaviors, mental health, aging,
and chronic disease within large prospective cohort studies. He
has developed methodologies link smartphone-based global
positioning systems (GPS) and wearable device accelerometry data
to understand how spatial factors influence health behaviors. He
has also created novel metrics of spatial factors by applying
deep learning algorithms to nationwide street-view images.