Aaron Hipp
Associate Professor of Community Health and Sustainability
Center for Geospatial Analytics, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management
Jordan Hall 5124
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.
- How programs such as Open Streets and Ciclovias help activate public built environments and potentially increase healthy and sustainable behaviors.
- The effect of the environment where we spend most of our time (work/school and sleep) on leisure time physical activity.
Recent Courses Taught
- PRT 504: Data Management and Evaluation in Parks, Recreation Tourism & Sport
Publications
- Can building design impact physical activity? A natural experiment (2018)
- How segregation makes us fat: Food behaviors and food environment as mediators of the relationship between residential segregation and individual body mass index (2018)
- Relationships between characteristics of urban green land cover and mental health in US metropolitan areas (2018)
- Does availability of worksite supports for physical activity differ by industry and occupation? (2018)
- Examining motivations to play Pokemon Go and their influence on perceived outcomes and physical activity (2017)
- Neighborhood walkability and active ageing: A difference in differences assessment of active transportation over ten years (2017)
- Examining motivations to play Pokemon GO and their influence on perceived outcomes and physical activity (2017)
- Actigraphy-derived daily rest-activity patterns and body mass index in community-dwelling adults (2017)
- Moving targets: Promoting physical activity in public spaces via open streets in the US (2017)
- "Can we walk?" Environmental supports for physical activity in India (2017)