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2019 Emerging Public Health Professional Award
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Dustin T. Duncan, SM ’07, SD ’11
Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Dustin Duncan is a highly respected public health innovator who has made major contributions to advancing the new field of spatial epidemiology, combining spatial statistics and social epidemiology. He is director of Columbia’s Spatial Epidemiology Lab and co-director of the Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. His research examines the ways in which the places where we live, work, and play can be designed to promote healthful behaviors and improve health outcomes, placing issues of exposure to violence and disorder, neighborhood walkability, and access to healthy food at the forefront of epidemiology research. Using new and emerging geospatial technologies, Dr. Duncan seeks to understand how social and contextual factors, especially neighborhood characteristics, influence population health. Focusing primarily on HIV epidemiology and prevention and sleep epidemiology and promotion, he studies minority health and health disparities, especially among sexual minority populations and in particular black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and transgender women of color. He has received national and international recognition for his work and has been invited to teach at universities and collaborate with leading experts across the globe.
In 2018, Dr. Duncan published
Neighborhoods and Health
, co-edited with Ichiro Kawachi, the John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School.
The Social Epidemiology of Sleep
, co-edited with Kawachi and Susan Redline, the Peter C. Farrell Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School, will appear in November 2019.
Dr. Duncan mentors students from several underrepresented minority groups, fostering a new generation of public health and medical professionals. A person who demonstrates the highest level of professionalism, scholarship, and character, Dustin Duncan is leading the way to a new understanding of health disparities by connecting neighborhoods and health outcomes.
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