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65
Citations
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World Ranking
1029
National Ranking
480

Overview

Daniel A. Rodriguez is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans Environmental Science and Social Sciences, with significant contributions to Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Transportation, Global and Planetary Change, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Health.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Traffic and Road Safety
  • Global Health Care Issues

Recent publications by Daniel A. Rodriguez include:

  • Life expectancy and mortality in 363 cities of Latin America, 2021, Nature Medicine
  • Public transit use in the United States in the era of COVID-19: Transit riders' travel behavior in the COVID-19 impact and recovery period, 2021, Transport Policy
  • City-level impact of extreme temperatures and mortality in Latin America, 2022, Nature Medicine
  • Ambient fine particulate matter in Latin American cities: Levels, population exposure, and associated urban factors, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • A systematic review of empirical and simulation studies evaluating the health impact of transportation interventions, 2020, Environmental Research

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Daniel A. Rodriguez include:

  • Nélson Gouveia
  • Ana V. Diez Roux
  • Usama Bilal
  • Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa
  • Josiah L. Kephart

The scientist regularly publishes in several venues including:

  • UNC Libraries
  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Journal of Urban Health
  • The Lancet Planetary Health
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Additionally, Daniel A. Rodriguez has published a book titled The Right to Live in Health in 2020 through the University of North Carolina Press, which has received citations in the academic community.

Best Publications

  • Role of Built Environments in Physical Activity, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Disease

    James F. Sallis;Myron F. Floyd;Daniel A. Rodríguez;Brian E. Saelens

  • Improving health through policies that promote active travel: a review of evidence to support integrated health impact assessment

    Audrey de Nazelle;Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen;Josep M. Antó;Michael Brauer

  • The relationship between non-motorized mode choice and the local physical environment

    Daniel A. Rodrı́guez;Joonwon Joo

  • The development and testing of an audit for the pedestrian environment

    Kelly J. Clifton;Andréa D. Livi Smith;Daniel Rodriguez

  • A systematic review of fast food access studies

    S. E. Fleischhacker;K. R. Evenson;D. A. Rodriguez;A. S. Ammerman

  • Exploring Associations between Physical Activity and Perceived and Objective Measures of the Built Environment

    Aileen P. McGinn;Kelly R. Evenson;Amy H. Herring;Sara L. Huston

  • Comparing measures of urban land use mix

    Yan Song;Louis Merlin;Daniel A Rodriguez

  • Value of accessibility to Bogotá's bus rapid transit system

    Daniel A. Rodríguez;Felipe Targa

  • Can New Urbanism Encourage Physical Activity?: Comparing a New Urbanist Neighborhood with Conventional Suburbs

    Daniel A. Rodríguez;Asad J. Khattak;Kelly R. Evenson

  • Portable global positioning units to complement accelerometry-based physical activity monitors

    Daniel A Rodríguez;Austin L Brown;Philip J Troped

  • Space Syntax and Walking in a New Urbanist and Suburban Neighbourhoods

    Perver K. Baran;Daniel A. Rodríguez;Asad J. Khattak

  • Hot, congested, crowded and diverse: Emerging research agendas in planning

    Hilda Blanco;Marina Alberti;Ann Forsyth;Kevin J. Krizek

  • Life expectancy and mortality in 363 cities of Latin America.

    Usama Bilal;Philipp Hessel;Carolina Perez-Ferrer;Yvonne L. Michael

  • The role of the built environment in explaining relationships between perceived and actual pedestrian and bicyclist safety.

    Gihyoug Cho;Daniel A. Rodríguez;Asad J. Khattak

  • Land use, residential density, and walking: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.

    Daniel A. Rodríguez;Kelly R. Evenson;Ana V. Diez Roux;Shannon J. Brines

  • Neighborhood Environment and Cognition in Older Adults: A Systematic Review

    Lilah M. Besser;Lilah M. Besser;Noreen C. McDonald;Yan Song;Walter A. Kukull

  • An evaluation of the accessibility benefits of commuter rail in Eastern Massachusetts using spatial hedonic price functions

    Robert J. Armstrong;Daniel A. Rodríguez

  • The relationship between urban form and station boardings for Bogota's BRT

    Nicolás Estupiñán;Daniel A. Rodríguez

  • Capitalization of BRT network expansions effects into prices of non-expansion areas

    Daniel A. Rodríguez;Carlos H. Mojica

  • Public transit use in the United States in the era of COVID-19: Transit riders’ travel behavior in the COVID-19 impact and recovery period

    Madeleine E.G. Parker;Meiqing Li;Mohamed Amine Bouzaghrane;Hassan Obeid

  • Walk Score® and Transit Score® and walking in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.

    Jana A. Hirsch;Kari A. Moore;Kelly R. Evenson;Daniel A. Rodriguez

Frequent Co-Authors

Ana V. Diez Roux
Ana V. Diez Roux Drexel University
Audrey de Nazelle
Audrey de Nazelle Imperial College London
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen
Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Yan Song
Yan Song University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Deborah A. Cohen
Deborah A. Cohen Kaiser Permanente
Cora E. Lewis
Cora E. Lewis University of Alabama at Birmingham
Michael Jerrett
Michael Jerrett University of California, Los Angeles
Nelson Gouveia
Nelson Gouveia Universidade de São Paulo
C. Alix Timko
C. Alix Timko Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Daniel G. Brown
Daniel G. Brown University of Washington

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