Jing-Huei Huang
Postdoctoral Scholar
jhuang32@ncsu.eduBio
Jing is a postdoctoral scholar with a background in geography, tourism, parks and recreation and health promotion. Jing is dedicated to advancing community health through supportive built and social environments, with a focus on park use and physical activity. Her research focuses on advancing evaluation methodology that complements traditional methods to better understand outdoor recreation settings that promote active lifestyles. One of her current projects investigates the patterns of children’s play and space use through accelerometer/GPS data using density-based clustering techniques, which informs playspace design and layout that encourage diversified and active play. Her research also highlights the built environment’s role in impacting and advancing health equity. She currently works on a project that aims to map playspace equity in Colorado, in collaboration with KABOOM! funded by the Colorado Health Foundation.
Publications
- Use of Accelerometry and Global Positioning System (GPS) to Describe Children’s Park-Based Physical Activity Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Youth , Journal of Urban Health (2024)
- The relationship between greenspace exposure and telomere length in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey , Science of The Total Environment (2023)
- Exploring public values through Twitter data associated with urban parks pre- and post- COVID-19 , LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING (2022)
- Land use diversity and park use in New York City , PREVENTIVE MEDICINE REPORTS (2021)
- How Does Park Use and Physical Activity Differ between Childhood and Adolescence? A Focus on Gender and Race-Ethnicity , Journal of Urban Health (2019)
- Short-term associations between objective crime, park-use, and park-based physical activity in low-income neighborhoods , Preventive Medicine (2019)
- Use of SOPARC to assess physical activity in parks: do race/ethnicity, contextual conditions, and settings of the target area, affect reliability? , BMC PUBLIC HEALTH (2019)