Neighborhoods & Health Study at UMN

Neighborhoods and Health At All Ages Research Study Thank you for your interest in our research study! Dr. Michael Esposito at the University of Minnesota and Dr. Jessica Finlay at the University of Colorado Boulder are conducting interviews to investigate how neighborhood services, amenities, and hazards pose lifelong opportunities and barriers to h...

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JESSICA M. FINLAY The academic website of Jessica Finlay, an interdisciplinary doctoral fellow studying aging, wellbeing, and the built environment at the University of Minnesota.

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Principal Investigator, Dr. Michael Esposito, is currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on understanding the production of racialized disparities in population health. Put differently, his work investigates how broad, racialized social systems — and their constituent institutions — are configured in ways that layer privileges on white populations and hazards on BIPOC populations; his research ultimately seeks to understand how these systematically distributed privileges and penalties arrive on population health.

Principal Investigator, Dr. Jessica Finlay, is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute of Behavioral Science with the University of Colorado. Her research combines geography and gerontology to better understand complex relationships between aging people and their environment. It addresses diverse needs and experiences with a strong focus on underrepresented female, low-income, and minority elders. Her work advances geographic scholarship on health-place interconnections, and elucidates the role of socio-physical contexts that shape how we age.

Welcome to the Neighborhoods & Health at UMN study page! This study aims to deepen our understanding of how neighborhoods impact opportunities for healthy lifestyles. Our team of researchers is currently recruiting participants for seated and mobile interviews to talk about access to physical activities, social connections, healthy diets, and educational opportunities. Participants should be 18+ and living in the Minneapolis metro area. Click the link below to read more and sign up to participate!

Neighborhoods and Health At All Ages Research Study Thank you for your interest in our research study! Dr. Michael Esposito at the University of Minnesota and Dr. Jessica Finlay at the University of Colorado Boulder are conducting interviews to investigate how neighborhood services, amenities, and hazards pose lifelong opportunities and barriers to h...