InCHIP Lecture: Environmental Impacts on Public Health Outcomes of Marginalized Communities

"Impact of Built, Social and Natural Environments on Public Health Outcomes of Marginalized Communities" Jennifer D. Roberts, Dr.PH, MPH, University of Maryland Jennifer D. Roberts is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology, School of Public Health at the University of Maryland College Park (UMD). Dr. Roberts is also the Founder and Director of the Public Health Outcomes and Effects of the Built Environment (PHOEBE) Laboratory as well as the Co-Founder and Co-Director of NatureRx@UMD,an initiative that emphasizes the green space benefits interspersed throughout and around the UMD campus and acknowledges the ancestral lands of the Piscataway People as well as the historical slave trade legacies of the UMD campus land. In recognition of her NatureRx@UMD accomplishments, Dr. Roberts was awarded an REI Cooperative Action Fund to create and establish the Wekesa Earth Center, a collaborative effort of scholarship and recognition across multiple disciplines to promote equity, reconciliation, and healing in nature. She serves as Executive Founding Director of the Wekesa Earth Center and oversees the four center arms: (1) research; (2) recognition; (3) programs; and (4) dissemination. Her scholarship focuses on the impact of built, social, and natural environments, including the institutional and structural inequities of these environments, on the public health outcomes of marginalized communities. More specifically, much of her research has explored the dynamic relationship between environmental, social, and cultural drivers of physical activity or active living and using empirical evidence of this relationship to infer complex health outcome patterns and disparities among adults and children. FOLLOW InCHIP on social media! BlueSky → https://bsky.app/profile/uconninchip.... LinkedIn →   / uconn-s-institute-for-collaboration-on-hea...   Instagram →   / uconninchip   LEARN more about InCHIP at https://chip.uconn.edu/