Peter James, Sc.D., M.H.S.
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences; Director, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
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Research/Academic Interests
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.
Division
Environmental and Occupational Health
Center/Program Affiliation
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Undergraduate School
B.A., Environmental Science, History of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA 2002
Other School
Sc.D., Environmental Health and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA 2012
Other School
M.H.S., Environmental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore MD 2007
Access Peter James's NCBI publications: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/peter.james.1/bibliography/40047305/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending
Access Peter James's UC Davis profile here: https://profiles.ucdavis.edu/peter.james
Access Peter James's Google Scholar publications here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=U8MczSoAAAAJ&view_op=list_works