Aaron Hipp
Bio
Education
University of California, Irvine. Ph.D. 2009
- Social Ecology
Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC. B.S. 2000
- Biology
Current Research Interests
- How, where, and why our public built environments impact health behaviors such as physical activity and recreation.
- Use of emerging technologies and crowdsourcing to study the interaction between built environments and community health behaviors.
- Understanding and improving spatial uncertainty in built environment and physical activity research.
- Assessing the health benefits and opportunities for time spent outdoors and in nature.
Recent Courses Taught
- PRT 504: Data Management and Evaluation in Parks, Recreation Tourism & Sport
- IPGE/PRT 211: Nature, Health, and Wellness
- PRT 380: Evidence-based Decision Making in Recreation, Sport, Tourism, and Event Management
Publications
- Food deserts exposure, density of fast-food restaurants, and park access: Exploring the association of food and recreation environments with obesity and diabetes using global and local regression models , PLOS ONE (2024)
- Identifying multilevel predictors of behavioral outcomes like park use: A comparison of conditional and marginal modeling approaches , PLOS ONE (2024)
- Association of composite park quality with park use in four diverse cities , PREVENTIVE MEDICINE REPORTS (2023)
- Associations Between Neighborhood Opportunity and Indicators of Physical Fitness for New York City Public School Youth , CHILDHOOD OBESITY (2023)
- Better Health is Right Outside Your Door , (2023)
- Can good microscale pedestrian streetscapes enhance the benefits of macroscale accessible urban form? An automated audit approach using Google street view images , LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING (2023)
- Longitudinal Associations Between Neighborhood Child Opportunity and Physical Fitness for New York City Public School Youth , AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY (2023)
- Need and Interest in Nature Prescriptions to Protect Cardiovascular and Mental Health: A Nationally-Representative Study With Insights for Future Randomised Trials , HEART LUNG AND CIRCULATION (2023)
- Paying for natureābased solutions: A review of funding and financing mechanisms for ecosystem services and their impacts on social equity , Sustainable Development (2023)
- The relationship between greenspace exposure and telomere length in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey , SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT (2023)
Groups
- Center for Geospatial Analytics
- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management
- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management: PRTM Faculty
- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management: PRTM Graduate Faculty
- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management: PRTM Online Masters Degree Faculty