September 23, 2020

Webinar: Augmenting Health Research through Secondary Data Use: the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA)

1:00 pm

Webinar Description:

The National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) is a repository of neighborhood contextual measures -- place-based data that quantifies the physical, demographic, economic, and/or social environment -- used to understand the role of neighborhood context and resources for population health. Most NaNDA contextual measures are created using publicly available data, such as from the Census Bureau. So why would a researcher use NaNDA instead of going directly to the primary data to obtain or create their own contextual measures? In this session, we will discuss case studies from the NaNDA repository that augment and recombine publicly available data to create novel measures to study the role of neighborhoods for health and health inequities.

Presenters:

Philippa Clarke

Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health

Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research at University of Michigan

Robert Melendez

Geospatial Data Specialist, Institute for Social Research at University of Michigan Megan Chenoweth Data Manager

Curator, Institute for Social Research at University of Michigan