Built Environment and Community Health (BEACH) Laboratory

  • Welcome to the BEACH!
  • Team Members
  • Current Research
    • Neighborhood Park Equity Project
    • Examining socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in pedestrian and bicycle crashes across South Carolina
  • Past Research
    • Natural experiment to assess health impacts of improved greenspace
    • Development of a Childhood Obesogenic Environment Index
    • Electronic Community Park Audit Tool (eCPAT) Project
    • ParkIndex
    • Partnerships to Improve Community Health (PICH)
    • Healthy Neighborhoods Project
    • Parks, Environmental Justice, & Childhood Obesity
    • Park Hop
    • Healthy Young People Empowerment (HYPE)
    • Kansas City Parks and Physical Activity Project
    • Evaluation of the Spartanburg Healthy Schools Initiative
  • Research Partners
  • Contact Us

Current Research

This page describes several ongoing or recently-completed BEACH Lab projects.  Click on the project name to learn more.


Neighborhood Park Equity Project


Examining socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in pedestrian and bicycle crashes across South Carolina

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