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Overview

Philippa Clarke is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Social Sciences and Medicine, with a strong focus on Health, Transportation, Demography, General Health Professions, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their work covers a variety of main topics including:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Older Adults Driving Studies
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Employment and Welfare Studies

Philippa Clarke has published extensively in several venues, with the following having the highest number of their publications:

  • Innovation in Aging
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • UNC Libraries
  • Journal of Aging and Health
  • The Journals of Gerontology Series B

Frequent research collaborators include:

  • Jessica Finlay
  • Suzanne E. Judd
  • Michael Esposito
  • Ketlyne Sol
  • Grace A. Noppert

Selected recent publications include:

  • Cognability: An Ecological Theory of neighborhoods and cognitive aging (2022) - Social Science & Medicine
  • Comparison of Health Outcomes Among High- and Low-Income Adults Aged 55 to 64 Years in the US vs England (2020) - JAMA Internal Medicine
  • Comparison of two area-level socioeconomic deprivation indices: Implications for public health research, practice, and policy (2023) - PLoS ONE
  • Neighborhood active aging infrastructure and cognitive function: A mixed-methods study of older Americans (2021) - Preventive Medicine
  • Association between temperature exposure and cognition: a cross-sectional analysis of 20,687 aging adults in the United States (2021) - BMC Public Health

Best Publications

  • When can group level clustering be ignored? Multilevel models versus single-level models with sparse data

    P Clarke

  • Space Meets Time: Integrating Temporal and Contextual Influences on Mental Health in Early Adulthood

    Blair Wheaton;Philippa Clarke

  • Mobility Disability and the Urban Built Environment

    Philippa Clarke;Jennifer A. Ailshire;Michael Bader;Jeffrey D. Morenoff

  • Using Google Earth to Conduct a Neighborhood Audit: Reliability of a Virtual Audit Instrument

    Philippa Clarke;Jennifer Ailshire;Robert Melendez;Michael Bader

  • Measuring psychological well-being in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging.

    Philippa J. Clarke;Victor W. Marshall;Carol D. Ryff;Blair Wheaton

  • Environments for healthy ageing: a critical review.

    Philippa Clarke;Els R. Nieuwenhuijsen

  • Well-Being After Stroke in Canadian Seniors Findings From the Canadian Study of Health and Aging

    Philippa Clarke;Victor Marshall;Sandra E. Black;Angela Colantonio

  • The Role of the Built Environment in the Disablement Process

    Philippa Clarke;Linda K. George

  • Social disparities in BMI trajectories across adulthood by gender, race/ethnicity and lifetime socio-economic position: 1986–2004

    Philippa Clarke;Patrick M O’Malley;Lloyd D Johnston;John E Schulenberg

  • Quality of Life Following Stroke: Negotiating Disability, Identity, and Resources

    Philippa Clarke;Sandra E. Black

  • Addressing data sparseness in contextual population research : Using cluster analysis to create synthetic neighborhoods

    Philippa Clarke;Blair Wheaton

  • Generating GPS activity spaces that shed light upon the mobility habits of older adults: a descriptive analysis.

    Jana A Hirsch;Jana A Hirsch;Meghan Winters;Philippa Clarke;Heather McKay

  • Cognitive function in the community setting: the neighbourhood as a source of ‘cognitive reserve’?

    Philippa J Clarke;Jennifer A Ailshire;James S House;Jeffrey D Morenoff

  • Well being in Canadian seniors: Findings from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging.

    Philippa J. Clarke;Victor W. Marshall;Carol D. Ryff;Carolyn J. Rosenthal

  • Handicap in stroke survivors.

    P J Clarke;S E Black;E M Badley;J M Lawrence

  • Cognitive Decline and the Neighborhood Environment

    Philippa J. Clarke;Jennifer Weuve;Lisa Barnes;Denis A. Evans

  • "Urban Built Environments and Trajectories of Mobility Disability: Findings from a National Sample of Community-Dwelling American Adults (1986–2001)"

    Philippa Clarke;Jennifer A. Ailshire;Paula Lantz

  • Fine particulate matter air pollution and cognitive function among U.S. older adults.

    Jennifer A. Ailshire;Philippa Clarke

  • Participation among adults with disability: the role of the urban environment.

    Philippa J. Clarke;Jennifer A. Ailshire;Els R. Nieuwenhuijsen;Marijke W. de Kleijn – de Vrankrijker

  • Closure of ‘third places’? Exploring potential consequences for collective health and wellbeing

    Jessica Finlay;Michael Esposito;Min Hee Kim;Min Hee Kim;Iris Gomez-Lopez

  • Changes in the Built Environment and Changes in the Amount of Walking Over Time: Longitudinal Results From the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

    Jana A. Hirsch;Jana A. Hirsch;Kari A. Moore;Philippa J. Clarke;Daniel A. Rodriguez

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor W. Marshall
Victor W. Marshall University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jennifer A. Ailshire
Jennifer A. Ailshire University of Southern California
Lloyd D. Johnston
Lloyd D. Johnston University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John E. Schulenberg
John E. Schulenberg University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sandra E. Black
Sandra E. Black University of Toronto
Patrick M. O'Malley
Patrick M. O'Malley University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
James S. House
James S. House University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ana V. Diez Roux
Ana V. Diez Roux Drexel University
Caterina Rosano
Caterina Rosano University of Pittsburgh
Jacqui Smith
Jacqui Smith University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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