Aaron Hipp

Bio

As Associate Director of Social and Behavioral Science Applications, Aaron identifies and facilitates new collaborations between the Center and social science researchers across NC State, and advances geospatial community engagement with an equity lens. His work considers how, where and why public built environments impact health behaviors such as physical activity and recreation. He develops crowdsourcing approaches and uses emerging sensor technologies to study and visualize the interaction between built environments and community health behaviors. He is currently using webcams, web apps, GPS, and accelerometers in data collection. Other interests include infrastructure that supports workplace health, park use and accessibility, and geospatial decision support systems.

Publications

• Birdwatching linked to increased psychological well-being on college campuses: A pilot-scale experimental study , JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (2024)
• Contact with nature, nature prescriptions, and loneliness: Evidence from an international survey of adults in Australia, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States , HEALTH & PLACE (2024)
• 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)
• Historical redlining and environmental (in)justices: A scoping review of access to green space and exposure to urban heat and air pollution , (2024)
• Identifying multilevel predictors of behavioral outcomes like park use: A comparison of conditional and marginal modeling approaches , PLOS ONE (2024)
• Patient capital and no net loss: Applying institutional theory to understand publicly-owned mitigation banking in an urban context at a United States port , PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION (2024)
• Use of accelerometry and Global Positioning System (GPS) to describe children’s park-based physical activity among racial/ethnic minority youth , (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)