Center for Environment, Place and Health Research (CEPHR)
Understanding how neighborhoods impact different health outcomes lays the groundwork for more targeted patient interventions, reducing these potential differences. The goal of CEPHR is to help and equip caregivers with a knowledge base to translate these discoveries to patient care.
Our Services
CEPHR serves as a hub for multidisciplinary consultative services and mentorship in:
- Environmental epidemiology
- Geospatial analysis and mapping
- Community-engaged mapping work
We can assist Cleveland Clinic caregivers with ongoing projects or new projects that may lead to extramural funding.
How To Get Started
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Partner with us to explore innovative research ideas. Apply now.
About Us
In 2024, the Cleveland Clinic Office of the Chief of Staff awarded a Mandel Accelerator Grant to the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the Integrated Hospital Care Institute to create a new resource: the Center for Environment, Place and Health Research. This grant was made possible thanks to the extraordinary generosity of the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Foundation.
CEPHR draws upon existing faculty expertise and nurtures new investigators to create a cohesive and focused approach to researching the impact of neighborhoods on health and then immediately translates those discoveries to patient care. A major theme of the center includes a mechanism to serve our Cleveland Clinic caregivers by providing career development and formal mentorship.
What We Do
The Center for Environment, Place and Health Research team’s knowledge and expertise include:
- Participant-guided mapping
- Fine spatial scale measures of exposure
- Machine learning and causal inference
- Clinical informatics
- Radiomics
- Large registry/database investigation and analysis
- Multi-center study support
- Clinical care application of geo-spatial and place-based methods for improved patient outcomes
Our Team
Maeve MacMurdo MBChB, MPH
Director of the Occupational Lung Disease Clinic, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Xiaofeng Wang, PhD
Co-Head of the Section of Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Statistics for the Integrated Hospital Care Institute (D.A.S.H.), Full Staff Member in the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at Cleveland Clinic and a Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Wayne Tsuang MD PhD
Director, CEPHR, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Maggie Urban-Waala, MPH
Program Manager, CEPHR
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