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France
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
64
Citations
14624
World Ranking
1114
National Ranking
14

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award

Overview

Basile Chaix is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and specializes in environmental science and social sciences. Their research focuses on the intersection of environment, health, and social factors, particularly relating to urban living conditions and their impact on well-being.

Their recent publications cover a range of topics addressing mental health, urban spaces, and social environments. Selected papers include:

  • Micro urban spaces and mental well-being: Measuring the exposure to urban landscapes along daily mobility paths and their effects on momentary depressive symptomatology among older population (2023, Environment International)
  • Linking physical and social environments with mental health in old age: a multisensor approach for continuous real-life ecological and emotional assessment (2020, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health)
  • Combining social network and activity space data for health research: tools and methods (2020, Health & Place)
  • Mediating role of psychological distress in the associations between neighborhood social environments and sleep health (2022, SLEEP)
  • Overview of retrospective data harmonisation in the MINDMAP project: process and results (2020, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health)

Frequent collaborators in Chaix's research include:

  • Giovanna Fancello
  • Sanjeev Bista
  • Yan Kestens
  • Cédric Sueur
  • Dustin T. Duncan

Their work has been published multiple times in specific venues, reflecting their research focus and community engagement:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (8 publications)
  • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (5 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (5 publications)
  • Environment International (4 publications)
  • Health & Place (4 publications)

Basile Chaix's main fields of study are:

  • Environmental Science
  • Social Sciences

Their subfields of study include:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Transportation
  • Health
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Speech and Hearing

Their primary research topics cover:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Urban Green Space and Health

Best Publications

  • A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: using measures of clustering in multilevel logistic regression to investigate contextual phenomena

    Juan Merlo;Basile Chaix;Henrik Ohlsson;Anders Beckman

  • A brief conceptual tutorial of multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: linking the statistical concept of clustering to the idea of contextual phenomenon

    Juan Merlo;Basile Chaix;Min Yang;John Lynch

  • Measuring the food environment using geographical information systems: a methodological review.

    Hélène Charreire;Romain Casey;Paul Salze;Chantal Simon

  • The influence of geographic life environments on cardiometabolic risk factors: a systematic review, a methodological assessment and a research agenda

    C. Leal;B. Chaix;B. Chaix

  • A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: investigating contextual phenomena in different groups of people

    Juan Merlo;Min Yang;Basile Chaix;John Lynch

  • Conceptualization and measurement of environmental exposure in epidemiology: Accounting for activity space related to daily mobility

    Camille Perchoux;Basile Chaix;Steven Cummins;Yan Kestens

  • GPS tracking in neighborhood and health studies: a step forward for environmental exposure assessment, a step backward for causal inference?

    Basile Chaix;Julie Méline;Julie Méline;Scott Duncan;Claire Merrien;Claire Merrien

  • Geographic Life Environments and Coronary Heart Disease: A Literature Review, Theoretical Contributions, Methodological Updates, and a Research Agenda

    Basile Chaix

  • An Interactive Mapping Tool to Assess Individual Mobility Patterns in Neighborhood Studies

    Basile Chaix;Basile Chaix;Yan Kestens;Camille Perchoux;Camille Perchoux;Camille Perchoux;Noëlla Karusisi;Noëlla Karusisi

  • A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: interpreting neighbourhood differences and the effect of neighbourhood characteristics on individual health

    Juan Merlo;Basile Chaix;Min Yang;John Lynch

  • Comparison of a Spatial Perspective with the Multilevel Analytical Approach in Neighborhood Studies: The Case of Mental and Behavioral Disorders due to Psychoactive Substance Use in Malmö, Sweden, 2001

    Basile Chaix;Juan Merlo;S V Subramanian;John Lynch

  • Neighbourhoods in eco-epidemiologic research: delimiting personal exposure areas. A response to Riva, Gauvin, Apparicio and Brodeur.

    Basile Chaix;Juan Merlo;David Evans;Cinira Leal

  • Comparison of a spatial approach with the multilevel approach for investigating place effects on health: the example of healthcare utilisation in France

    Basile Chaix;Juan Merlo;Pierre Chauvin

  • Children’s exposure to nitrogen dioxide in Sweden: investigating environmental injustice in an egalitarian country

    Basile Chaix;Susanna Gustafsson;Michael Jerrett;Håkan Kristersson

  • Food environment and socioeconomic status influence obesity rates in Seattle and in Paris

    Adam Drewnowski;Anne Vernez Moudon;Junfeng Jiao;Anju Aggarwal

  • Individual/Neighborhood Social Factors and Blood Pressure in the RECORD Cohort Study. Which Risk Factors Explain the Associations?

    Basile Chaix;Kathy Bean;Cinira Leal;Frédérique Thomas

  • Individual and collective bodies: using measures of variance and association in contextual epidemiology

    Juan Merlo;Henrik Ohlsson;Kristian F Lynch;Basile Chaix

  • Association between activity space exposure to food establishments and individual risk of overweight.

    Yan Kestens;Alexandre Lebel;Alexandre Lebel;Basile Chaix;Christelle Clary

  • Detecting activity locations from raw GPS data: a novel kernel-based algorithm.

    Benoit Thierry;Basile Chaix;Basile Chaix;Yan Kestens

  • Active transportation and public transportation use to achieve physical activity recommendations? A combined GPS, accelerometer, and mobility survey study

    Basile Chaix;Basile Chaix;Yan Kestens;Scott Duncan;Claire Merrien;Claire Merrien

  • Neighborhood Effects on Health: Correcting Bias From Neighborhood Effects on Participation

    Basile Chaix;Nathalie Billaudeau;Frédérique Thomas;Sabrina Havard

Frequent Co-Authors

Yan Kestens
Yan Kestens University of Montreal
Juan Merlo
Juan Merlo Lund University
Dustin T. Duncan
Dustin T. Duncan Columbia University
Pierre Chauvin
Pierre Chauvin Inserm : Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
Maria Rosvall
Maria Rosvall University of Gothenburg
Frank J. van Lenthe
Frank J. van Lenthe Erasmus University Rotterdam
Martin Lindström
Martin Lindström Lund University
Martijn Huisman
Martijn Huisman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Cédric Sueur
Cédric Sueur University of Strasbourg
Mark Daniel
Mark Daniel University of Canberra

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