The Health Statistics and Geography Lab was established in 2008 by Wenjun Li to host federally and state-funded studies on community social and built environmental influences on health, health behaviors and health care.

Services

Besides serving multiple large-scale federally funded clinical and population health studies, the Health Statistics and Geography Lab (HSGL) provides a wide array of expertise in study design, statistical programming, data management, data analysis, recruitment, data collection, and retention support to evaluations of statewide public health programs and initiatives. The lab specializes in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and utilization of ArcGIS for analysis of spatial and demographic data.

Community-Based Research

Our lab has grown its roots into local communities and established multiple academic-community-government partnerships. The PI and staff have substantial experience and research, identifying socioeconomic, racial, gender, and geographic disparities in health and health behaviors.  Our lab is well-published in research on aging, healthy eating, and active living as we age, obesity, epidemiology and prevention of falls and fall injuries, traumatic injuries, total joint replacement surgeries and outcomes research, physical disabilities, arthritis and cardiovascular diseases.   

Lab News

  • Rachel Le interviews a research participant

    New Study Analyzes How Neighborhoods Impact the Likeliness of Falls

    A new study led by Prof. of Public Health Wenjun Li, with funding from a $4 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Aging, will analyze how older people move and use the outdoor space in their communities.
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  • UML Public Health Prof. Wenjun Li researches healthy ageing resources by neighborhood

    Public Health Professor Studies Aging, Health Inequities

    Public Health Prof. Wenjun Li researches people’s access to resources that support healthy aging, with a focus on how social and environmental factors such as income, race and residential neighborhoods contribute to inequities in health and well-being. He’s also collaborating on research projects involving veterans.