Built Environment and Health (BEH) Research Group is an interdisciplinary consortium of researchers who study how neighborhood environments influence health. BEH uses spatial data to examine the impact of the built environments, including urban design, retail environments, land use, public transit, and housing on many aspects of health, including physical activity, diet, obesity, pedestrian injuries, cardiovascular disease and cancer. The BEH Group was founded by Andrew Rundle and Kathryn Neckerman at Columbia University with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars program. Our faculty team is now at Columbia University, Drexel University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington and John's Hopkins, with research staff based at the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health . The group includes faculty from the fields of public health, urban sociology, and social work... For existing funded projects where..
Also known as: BEH Group