Christopher Browning

About

Christopher Browning is an ASC Distinguished Professor of Sociology at The Ohio State University. He is associated with the Institute for Population Research, where his work focuses on various aspects of population studies, including health disparities, adolescent development, and spatial contexts of health. His research has addressed issues such as communities vulnerable to opioid addiction, childhood lead exposure and adolescent risk-taking behaviors, and the sociospatial context of health disparities. Dr. Browning's contributions include conducting studies on health and mortality among adolescents and young adults, utilizing diverse data collection and analysis methods to understand complex social and health-related phenomena.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Sociology
• Psychology
• Demography
• Geography
• Medicine
• Social Science
• Gerontology
• Environmental health
• Statistics

Selected publications

• Neighborhoods, Activity Spaces, and the Span of Adolescent Exposures

  American Sociological Review · 2021 · 59 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Since the inception of urban sociology, the "neighborhood" has served as the dominant context thought to capture developmentally significant youth experiences beyond the home. Yet no large-scale study has examined patterns of exposure to the most commonly used operationalization of neighborhood - the census tract - among urban youth. Using smartphone GPS data from the Adolescent Health and Development in Context study (N=1405), we estimate the amount of time youth spend in residential neighborho…

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• Human Mobility and Crime: Theoretical Approaches and Novel Data Collection Strategies

  Annual Review of Criminology · 2020 · 55 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  ) ecological network approaches consider links between persons or collectivities based on shared activity locations, capturing influences of broader systems of interconnection on spatial- and individual-level variation in crime. We review data collection strategies for the measurement of mobility across these approaches, considering both the challenges and promise of mobility-based research for criminology.

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• Exposure to police-related deaths and physiological stress among urban black youth

  Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2020 · 41 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
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• Place-Based Developmental Research: Conceptual and Methodological Advances in Studying Youth Development in Context

  Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · 2023-11-12 · 26 citations

  articleOpen access

  Scientists have, for some time, recognized that development unfolds in numerous settings, including families, schools, neighborhoods, and organized and unorganized activity settings. Since the turn of the 20th century, the body of mainstream neighborhood effects scholarship draws heavily from the early 20th century Chicago School of Sociology frameworks and have been situating development in neighborhood contexts and working to identify the structures and processes via which neighborhoods matter…

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• Relationship Between Family and Friend Support and Psychological Distress in Adolescents

  Journal of Pediatric Health Care · 2024-09-21 · 17 citations

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Recent grants

• Adolescent Health and Development in Context

  NIH · $2.9M · 2011–2017

• NIH Grant R01HD042405

  NIH · $889k · 2009

• NIH Grant R01HD057945

  NIH · $983k · 2013

Frequent coauthors

• Jodi L. Ford

  The Ohio State University

  37 shared

• Jake Tarrence

  Florida State University

  33 shared

• Catherine A. Calder

  The University of Texas at Austin

  29 shared

• Kathleen A. Cagney

  University of Liverpool

  28 shared

• Darlene A. Kertes

  University of Florida

  25 shared

• Bethany Boettner

  The Ohio State University

  24 shared

• Baldwin M. Way

  22 shared

• Kammi K. Schmeer

  The Ohio State University

  20 shared

Awards & honors

• ASC Distinguished Professor, Sociology

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