EP 95: Designing Environmental Health | Jennifer D. Roberts

How can we microdose nature into the built environment? What are
the benefits of green spaces and who has access to them? What’s the
story behind Billie Holiday’s song Strange Fruit?  Jennifer D.
Roberts is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of
Kinesiology, School of Public Health at the University of Maryland
College Park (UMD). Dr. Roberts is also the Founder and Director of
the Public Health Outcomes and Effects of the Built Environment
(PHOEBE) Laboratory as well as the Co-Founder and Co-Director of
NatureRx@UMD, an initiative that emphasizes the natural
environmental benefits interspersed throughout and around the UMD
campus. Her scholarship focuses on the impact of built, social, and
natural environments, including the institutional and structural
inequities of these environments, on the public health outcomes of
marginalized communities. More specifically, much of her research
has explored the dynamic relationship between environmental,
social, and cultural determinants of physical activity and using
empirical evidence of this relationship to infer complex health
outcome patterns and disparities as well as instigate a powerful
shift that recognizes, breaks, and transforms these conditions and
determinants of health. Episode Links and Mentions:
https://jenniferdeniseroberts.com/ Article: Mental health
initiative connects UMD students with the outdoors Article:
Advancing Health and Sustainability in Baltimore Video: Designing
on the Front Lines: Safer Spaces Book Rec: All We Can Save: Truth,
Courage, and Solution for the Climate Crisis Restaurant Rec: Seoul
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Production by Robert Pugliese Edit by Fernando Queiroz Cover Design
by Eden Lew Theme song by Emmanuel Houston Indexed in the Library
of Congress: ISSN 2833-2032