This collection was produced as part of the project, “A ‘Big Data’ Approach to Understanding Neighborhood Effects in Chronic Illness Disparities.” The Investigators for the project are Tiffany Veinot, Veronica Berrocal, Phillipa Clarke, Robert Goodspeed, Daniel Romero, and VG Vinod Vydiswaran from the University of Michigan. The study took place from 2015-2016, with funding from the University of Michigan’s Social Sciences Annual Institute, MCubed, and the Sloan and Moore Foundations.
Contact: Tiffany Veinot, MLS, PhD
Office: 3443 North Quad
Phone: 734/615-8281
Email: tveinot@umich.edu
MCubed project page:
https://mcubed.umich.edu/projects/%E2%80%9Cbig-data%E2%80%9D-approach-understanding-neighborhood-effects-chronic-illness-disparities
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