Living Here Predicts How You’ll Die: Linking Death Narratives to Neighborhood Economic Disinvestment with Unsupervised Machine Learning

Abstract

Living Here Predicts How You’ll Die: Linking Death Narratives to Neighborhood Economic Disinvestment with Unsupervised Machine Learning.

Dr. Gia Elise Barboza-Salerno

Director

I am an interdisciplinary scholar whose research integrates law, public health, social work, and advanced statistics to study childhood adversity, violence-related harm, and neighborhood-level inequities. I lead the ISSUES Lab at Ohio State, translating spatial and legal analysis into policy and practice.

Dr. Karla Shockley McCarthy

Co-Director

Dr. Karla Shockley, PhD, LMSW, TRCC, FSW, is a Principal Investigator and Senior Research Consultant at the Ohio Colleges of Medicine Government Resource Center, where she leads applied health services and population health research. She uses a collaborative team approach to design and execute mixed methods studies, develops survey instrumentation, oversees qualitative and quantitative analyses, and employs various dissemination methods. Her work centers on translating complex data into actionable insights that inform public health.