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

• 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 nature‐based solutions: A review of funding and financing mechanisms for ecosystem services and their impacts on social equity , Sustainable Development (2023)
• Using Video Cameras as a Research Tool in Public Spaces: Addressing Ethical and Information Governance Challenges Under Data Protection Legislation , Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour (2023)
• Applying Systems Thinking Approaches to Address Preventive Health Factors through Public Parks and Recreation Agencies , JOURNAL OF PARK AND RECREATION ADMINISTRATION (2022)
• Cultivating social capital in diverse, low-income neighborhoods: The value of parks for parents with young children , LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING (2022)
• Exploring public values through Twitter data associated with urban parks pre- and post- COVID-19 , LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING (2022)
• GIS&T in Recreation Planning and Management , Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (2022)