Aaron is an Associate Professor of Community Health and Sustainability with the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management and a Faculty Fellow with the Center for Geospatial Analytics. His research considers how, where, and why our public built environments impact health behaviors such as physical activity and recreation, and he uses emerging technologies and crowdsourcing to study the interaction between built environments and community health behaviors. His work attempts to improve spatial uncertainty in built environment and physical activity research. Aaron joined the Center as a Faculty Fellow in Fall 2015.
Roles
Publications
- Mixed methods analysis of eighteen worksite policies, programs, and environments for physical activity (2017)
- Mixed methods analysis of eighteen worksite policies, programs, and environments for physical activity (2017)
- GPS-based exposure to greenness and walkability and accelerometry-based physical activity (2017)
- Objective reports versus subjective perceptions of crime and their relationships to accelerometer-measured physical activity in Hispanic caretaker-child dyads (2017)
- Comparison of accelerometry methods for estimating physical activity (2017)
- Exploring attitudes, perceived norms, and personal agency: Insights into theory-based messages to encourage park-based physical activity in low-income urban neighborhoods (2017)
- Neighborhood-based differences in walkability, physical activity, and weight status in India (2016)
- The relationship between perceived greenness and perceived restorativeness of university campuses and student-reported quality of life (2016)
- "Spatial Energetics" integrating data From GPS, accelerometry, and GIS to address obesity and inactivity (2016)
- Still separate, still unequal: Social determinants of playground safety and proximity disparities in St. Louis (2016)