Office Hours with Rumi Chunara: Uncovering the Social Factors Behind Our Health | NYU Tandon

Social determinants of health — poverty, culture, environment, and more — can play as large a role in outcomes as what occurs in the doctors’ offices or hospital rooms. But measuring these effects can be challenging. Rumi Chunara, Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon and Biostatistics at the NYU School of Global Health, has dedicated her career to uncovering these factors that drive our quality of life, from hateful rhetoric on social media to the way green space improves mental health. Hear about her findings in this episode of Office Hours. Learn more about Chunara’s research into hate speech on X: engineering.nyu.edu/news/twitter-reveals-nyc-neigh… In the heart of downtown Brooklyn, our Unconventional Engineers are shaping a new future. Take a step into our world. Pop in for Office Hours, our video series diving deep into the research being done here at NYU Tandon. Learn more about our Unconventional Engineers, a vibrant group of researchers, students, technologists, and innovators working at the intersections of vital fields to engineer creative and smart, connected and secure, sustainable and healthy urban communities: engineering.nyu.edu/about/unconventional-engineer

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