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Identifying place-specific mortality mechanisms by integrating cause-of-death narratives and neighborhood typologies using machine learning

This study integrates cause-of-death narratives with neighborhood typologies using unsupervised ML and NLP to identify place-specific mortality mechanisms across Cook County, Illinois census tracts.

2026-11-02 09:15 — 09:30 Washington, DC

Dr. Gia Elise Barboza-Salerno, Dr. Karla Shockley McCarthy, Muna Saleh, Lareina La Flair, Dr. Amy Watson-Grace, Hexin Yang

Identifying place-specific mortality mechanisms by integrating cause-of-death narratives and neighborhood typologies using machine learning