Environmental epidemiologist at UC Davis studying spatial factors and health
Davis, CA
Joined September 2012
- Tweets1.1K
- Following756
- Followers884
- Likes2K
Pinned Tweet
New faculty job posting! We are looking for an Assistant Professor in Environmental or Occupational Health to join our incredible faculty in the Department of Public Health Sciences at UC Davis. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06651
Peter James retweeted
Record funding for @UCDavisMed : $439M in external research support in FY 2025-26, up 32% from last year. Grant awards fuel discoveries in cancer, dementia, clinical trials and more. A powerful investment in science that improves lives. @UCDavisHealth
#FromLabsToLives
health.ucdavis.edu/news/head…
Peter James retweeted
Health care is what happens in a clinic.
Health is shaped everywhere else—housing, food access, transportation, community.
No hospital, nonprofit, or government agency can fix that alone.
Peter James retweeted
A new multi-institutional study led by @ucdavis found that more trees in a neighborhood were linked to a 4% lower risk of #cardiovascular disease.
Image: An empty street with trees on both sides.
ALT An empty street with trees on both sides.
Peter James retweeted
Funding cuts pose risks to over 50 years worth of biobank data in the groundbreaking Nurses Health Study, investigated by Drs. Laden, @Jaime_E_Hart, @peterjames_7, @MarcWeisskopf, highlighting need for long-term funding solutions. Learn more: buff.ly/ZEj8PEw
Peter James retweeted
NEW RESEARCH: Seasonal average temperature differences and CVD incidence: results from the US-based Nurses’ Health study, Nurses’ Health Study II, and the Health Professional Follow-up study ➡️ buff.ly/jy5M8oA
Peter James retweeted
📣 We are hiring! A postdoc position in our team is now open - apply if you are interested on climate epidemiology, in particular on health impact attribution studies! Don't miss this opportunity to contribute in our Wellcome Trust TACTIC project deadline May 31st!
🌍🔬 Exciting opportunity for a postdoc! Join our TACTIC project and work with an international team to explore the health effects of climate change. Be part of impactful epidemiological studies🙌! ohws.prospective.ch/public/v…
Peter James retweeted
NEXUS is a bold effort to push the boundaries of what’s possible in environmental health science. We’re working to ensure that the environmental factors driving health and disease are no longer overlooked.
Website: nexus-exposomics.org/about.h…
@GaryWMiller3 @RimaHabre_ScD @chiragjp
Peter James retweeted
“So that $1 billion that the University of Alabama, Birmingham, received from the N.I.H. in recent years? If the N.I.H. cuts had been in place, the school would have had to come up with about $228 million to keep the lights on and to comply with all the regulations. Since the entire endowment of U.A.B. is about $1 billion, it couldn’t simply have written the check. Instead, it would most likely have had to shut down a good deal of its research.” @zeynep
Peter James retweeted
Data-Driven Urban Forestry
hixon.yale.edu/event-series/…
I hope you will join us (virtually)!
cc @liyispatial @peterjames_7
Peter James retweeted
This is an extremely well-written, comprehensive, and insightful overview of methods to address challenges in causal inference from observations with strong spatial correlation (neighboring observations are more similar than those further away) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Peter James retweeted
"When it comes to urban heat resilience, humidity matters as much as temperature or shade provisions." via buff.ly/49jtKAf
Peter James retweeted
🌳 Nature has health benefits, but which elements are most protective against childhood obesity? In a US cohort, we studied residential street-view images of trees, grass, and flowers to pediatric obesity risk—and the findings might surprise you! Explore the results below!
Residential green space exposure in early adolescence is associated with lower childhood obesity, and may be a useful component of a public health intervention for childhood obesity. ja.ma/41rxqhc
Excited to see this publication out from @liyispatial based on our @nih_nhlbi R01! It's an innovative assessment of greenspace from street-view image data and how it relates to @AHAScience's Life's Essential Eight metric of cardiovascular health in @ProjectViva_DPM
Happy to share our latest study examining how greenspace around children’s residences influences their cardiovascular health (CVH) during key growth stages, using an innovative combination of deep learning and street-view imagery. Download here for free!
authors.elsevier.com/a/1kBPe…
Peter James retweeted
The Pre2 CAP lab is hiring a program manager/research associate to support federal and foundation studies to improve understanding of environmental drivers and access barriers that contribute to prostate cancer disparities. For more details and to apply: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/24…
Peter James retweeted
#PhD opportunity at @EdinburghUni
Background: #geography and #geosciences, computer/data sciences, ecology or social sciences
Methodology: Use use of #GIS, Satellite #EO data, #rstats, Python, open-source #geospatial data etc
Research questions
What are the key services for child health & wellbeing & can we estimate travel time to these across the chosen countries?
How many children live within 30-, 60- and 90-minute walking time of the nearest services?
Are travel time to key services associated with child multi-dimensional poverty?
How do we quantify flood water as a barrier to travel within the CPAS model?
What impacts do floods have on travel time across East Africa?
e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/how-to-apply…
Peter James retweeted
Looking to hire scientists (at all levels) to develop new computational models and AI approaches to map the exposome! Data across multiple scales are staged and ready to analyze! 🤓💻 check out: bit.ly/patelgrouphire and DM or email!
@Hossein_Estiri @arjunmanrai @francescadomin8 @josep_mercader @GaryWMiller3
Peter James retweeted
The mHealth Training Institute is a terrific opportunity for committed scholars with interest in mobile health - please share this opportunity with people in your networks who you think would benefit from applying!
mhti.md2k.org/apply/
Peter James retweeted
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Professor of environmental sciences environmental exposomics @UTArlington #epijobs
Details here 👉bit.ly/4f2mdbf
Huge credit to @liyispatial for wrangling these massive and super high resolution data using AWS and the @BeiwePlatform
This is the culmination of years of work and the efforts of tons of @nhs3 @HarvardGUTS researchers and staff! So happy to finally see this in print and excited to dive into these fascinating data more!
Many thanks to co-authors @Jaime_E_Hart @MStraczkiewicz @martakarass @jponnela @cindyrobinhu @WiltGrete Rachel Librett, Jorge Chavarro, and Francine Laden