Summary
This project aims to use tech-enabled community-driven data, big population health data, and agent-based models to develop new measures and metrics for understanding and transforming Black longevity in the U.S.
The Black Zones: Harnessing Tech Enabled Community Driven Data, Big Population Health Data, & Agent-Based Models to Transform the Measures & Metrics around Longevity
US · IL
NIH
grant
awarded
#nih-5R01MD020250-02
What they want
The project proposes a sequential mixed-methods approach utilizing mobile technology to enhance community-based participatory research. This will involve collecting real-time, location-based data on users’ lived experiences and perceptions of their neighborhoods to develop new measures of risk and resiliency factors associated with Black life expectancy. Additionally, dynamic agent-based models will be developed to integrate multiple data types (geography, social context, resources) to provide insights on how community group decisions and financial choices influence Black longevity.
Deliverables
- New measures of risk and resiliency factors that capture African Americans' (AAs) and Black Immigrants' (BIs) lived experience of their neighborhoods and Black longevity
- Dynamic agent-based models that integrate multiple types of data to capture risks to life expectancy gaps and provide insights on decision-making impacts
Technical requirements
- Mobile data collection platforms
- Agent-based models
