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Wei Xu
Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Research areas: Social Sciences · Sociology and Political Science · Health disparities and outcomes · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
0000-0002-4727-1540
Employment
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Medical College of Wisconsin Assistant Professor2023 - Present
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University of Wisconsin–Madison Assistant Scientist2020 - 2023
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Postdoctoral research associate2019 - 2020
Education
- 2014 - 2019
Projects & Funding
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Interactive effects of physical activity and neighborhood air pollution on risk of incident Alzheimer's disease and related dementias National Institute on Aging2021 - 2023
Publications (20)
- The environmental racism index: Estimating the strength of association among environmental risk/benefit, mortgage lending disinvestment, and racial/ethnic density across US geographies Save
- Accelerometer-based physical activity, air pollution and risk of dementia subtypes: a prospective study using UK biobank Save
- Landscape, Patterns, and Experiences of Climate-Related Displacement in Uganda: A Geospatial Document Analysis Save
- How does life course exposure to contextual disadvantage accelerate biological aging? The role of psychological symptoms Save
- Climate seasonality and the health and well-being of older adults in rural Busia and Kilifi Counties, Kenya: SENIORS study – protocol for a qualitative study Save
- Guideline Adherence for Kidney Disease Testing at Federally Qualified Health Centers Save
- Cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and racial and geographic disparities in epigenetic aging Save
- Statewide Disparities in Long-Term Care Access in Wisconsin Save
- Xu et al respond to “Invited commentary: improving spatial exposure data for everyone—life-course social context and ascertaining residential history” Save
- The health implications of cumulative exposure to contextual (dis)advantage: methodological and substantive advances from a unique data linkage Save
- Linking sequences of exposure to residential (dis)advantage, individual socioeconomic status, and health Save
- Constructing Residential Histories in a General Population-Based Representative Sample Save
- Persistence of mortgage lending bias in the United States: 80 years after the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation security maps Save
- From convergence to divergence: Lifespan variation in US states, 1959–2017 Save
- State of birth and cardiovascular disease mortality: Multilevel analyses of the National Longitudinal Mortality Study Save
- Assessment of changes in place of death of older adults who died from dementia in the United States, 2000–2014: a time-series cross-sectional analysis Save
- Where and When: Sharpening the lens on geographic disparities in mortality Save
- The legacy of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation and the political ecology of urban trees and air pollution in the United States Save
- Racial and ethnic estimates of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in the United States (2015–2060) in adults aged ≥65 years Save
- Detecting spatiotemporal clusters of dementia mortality in the United States, 2000–2010 Save