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Ana V. Diez Roux

Ana V. Diez Roux

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Social Sciences and Humanities
USA
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
105
Citations
49706
World Ranking
69
National Ranking
34

Medicine

D-Index
105
Citations
49986
World Ranking
6694
National Ranking
3535

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award

Overview

Ana V. Diez Roux is affiliated with Drexel University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the Social Sciences, with a significant focus on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Health, General Health Professions, Transportation, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The main topics covered in their work include health disparities and outcomes, urban transport and accessibility, climate change and health impacts, air quality and health impacts, global health care issues, global public health policies and epidemiology, and food security and health in diverse populations.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Ana V. Diez Roux include:

  • Discrimination and Hypertension Risk Among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Study, 2020, Hypertension
  • City-level impact of extreme temperatures and mortality in Latin America, 2022, Nature Medicine
  • Spatial Inequities in COVID-19 Testing, Positivity, Confirmed Cases, and Mortality in 3 U.S. Cities, 2021, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • The built and social neighborhood environment and child obesity: A systematic review of longitudinal studies, 2021, Preventive Medicine
  • A systematic review of empirical and simulation studies evaluating the health impact of transportation interventions, 2020, Environmental Research

Frequent co-authors working with Ana V. Diez Roux are:

  • Usama Bilal
  • Kari Moore
  • Daniel A. Rodrı́guez
  • Olga L. Sarmiento
  • Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa

Their work is often published in venues such as:

  • UNC Libraries
  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Urban Health
  • Social Science & Medicine

Best Publications

  • Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis: Objectives and Design

    Diane E. Bild;David A. Bluemke;Gregory L. Burke;Robert Detrano

  • Neighborhoods and health.

    Ana V. Diez Roux;Christina F. Mair

  • Neighborhood characteristics associated with the location of food stores and food service places

    Kimberly Morland;Steve Wing;Ana Diez Roux;Charles Poole

  • Investigating Neighborhood and Area Effects on Health

    Ana V. Diez Roux

  • The contextual effect of the local food environment on residents' diets: The atherosclerosis risk in communities study

    Kimberly Morland;Steve Wing;Ana Diez Roux

  • Supermarkets, Other Food Stores, and Obesity: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

    Kimberly Morland;Ana V. Diez Roux;Steve Wing

  • Associations of Neighborhood Characteristics With the Location and Type of Food Stores

    Latetia V. Moore;Ana V. Diez Roux

  • Examining a bidirectional association between depressive symptoms and diabetes.

    Sherita Hill Golden;Mariana Lazo;Mercedes Carnethon;Alain G. Bertoni

  • Assessing the measurement properties of neighborhood scales: from psychometrics to ecometrics

    Mahasin S. Mujahid;Ana V. Diez Roux;Jeffrey D. Morenoff;Trivellore Raghunathan

  • Associations of the Local Food Environment with Diet Quality—A Comparison of Assessments based on Surveys and Geographic Information Systems The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

    Latetia V. Moore;Ana V. Diez Roux;Jennifer A. Nettleton;David R. Jacobs

  • Availability of recreational resources in minority and low socioeconomic status areas.

    Latetia V. Moore;Ana V. Diez Roux;Kelly R. Evenson;Aileen P. McGinn

  • Association between air pollution and coronary artery calcification within six metropolitan areas in the USA (the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution): a longitudinal cohort study

    Joel D Kaufman;Sara D Adar;R Graham Barr;Matthew Budoff

  • Residential Environments and Cardiovascular Risk

    Ana V. Diez Roux

  • Gender and telomere length : systematic review and meta-analysis

    Michael Gardner;David Bann;Laura Wiley;Rachel Cooper

  • Neighborhood Characteristics and Availability of Healthy Foods in Baltimore

    Manuel Franco;Ana V. Diez Roux;Thomas A. Glass;Benjamín Caballero

  • Estimating neighborhood health effects: the challenges of causal inference in a complex world.

    Ana V Diez Roux

  • Neighborhoods and health: where are we and were do we go from here?

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  • Complex Systems Thinking and Current Impasses in Health Disparities Research

    Ana V. Diez Roux

  • Availability of recreational resources and physical activity in adults

    Ana V. Diez Roux;Kelly R. Evenson;Aileen P. McGinn;Daniel G. Brown

  • Fast-Food Consumption, Diet Quality, and Neighborhood Exposure to Fast Food: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

    Latetia V. Moore;Ana V. Diez Roux;Jennifer A. Nettleton;David R. Jacobs

  • A New Tool for Epidemiology: The Usefulness of Dynamic-Agent Models in Understanding Place Effects on Health

    Amy H. Auchincloss;Ana V. Diez Roux

Frequent Co-Authors

Teresa E. Seeman
Teresa E. Seeman University of California, Los Angeles
Joel D. Kaufman
Joel D. Kaufman University of Washington
Mahasin S. Mujahid
Mahasin S. Mujahid University of California, Berkeley
Sherita Hill Golden
Sherita Hill Golden Johns Hopkins University
Mercedes R. Carnethon
Mercedes R. Carnethon Northwestern University
Daniel A. Rodriguez
Daniel A. Rodriguez University of California, Berkeley
Steven Shea
Steven Shea Columbia University
David R. Jacobs
David R. Jacobs University of Minnesota
Alain G. Bertoni
Alain G. Bertoni Wake Forest University
Kelly R. Evenson
Kelly R. Evenson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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