Jay Maddock
· Regents Professor Director, Center for Health & NatureTexas A&M University · Environmental and Occupational Health
Active 1986–2025
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About
Jay Maddock, PhD, FAAHB, is a Regents Professor and the Director of the Center for Health & Nature at the School of Public Health at Texas A&M University. His research interests focus on social ecological approaches to increasing physical activity and the relationship between health and nature. Maddock holds a PhD and an MA in Psychology from the University of Rhode Island, as well as a BA in Psychology and Sociology from Syracuse University. His professional background includes expertise in health communications and research methods, contributing to his role in advancing public health initiatives related to environmental and occupational health.
Research topics
- Medicine
- Environmental health
- Nursing
- Computer Science
- Political Science
- Demography
- Internal medicine
- Psychology
- Business
- Gerontology
Selected publications
Tourism Management · 2021 · 108 citations
A Scoping Review of Bikeability Assessment Methods
Journal of Community Health · 2020 · 69 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingBMC Health Services Research · 2020 · 56 citations
Senior authorCorrespondingBACKGROUND: Workplace violence against healthcare workers is a global issue that is on the rise, with Chinese healthcare workers facing growing challenges with hospital violence. Attacks on medical staff have increased in recent years with no clear resolution. Prior research focused on policies to improve the doctor-patient relationship and better protect clinicians, but few studies addressed the patient perspective. This paper examines patients' choices when facing a medical dispute and identif…
BMC Public Health · 2022 · 15 citations
BACKGROUND: Prior studies demonstrate associations between risk factors for obesity and related chronic diseases (e.g., cardiovascular disease) and features of the built environment. This is particularly true for rural populations, who have higher rates of obesity, cancer, and other chronic diseases than urban residents. There is also evidence linking health behaviors and outcomes to social factors such as social support, opposition, and norms. Thus, overlapping social networks that have a high…
JACC Advances · 2024-12-17 · 8 citations
articleOpen accessBackground: Green space has been linked with cardiovascular (CV) health. Nature access and quality may have significant impact on CV risk factors and health. Objectives: The authors aimed to investigate the relationship between NatureScore, a composite score for natural environment exposure and quality of green spaces, with CV risk factors and atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases (ASCVD). Methods: A cross-sectional study including one million adult patients from the Houston Methodist Learning…
Recent grants
NIH · $135k · 2008
Frequent coauthors
- 155 shared
Katie M. Heinrich
Kansas State University
- 148 shared
Karin Valentine Goins
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
- 143 shared
Rodney Lyn
SickKids Foundation
- 125 shared
Thomas L. Schmid
- 124 shared
Semra Aytur
University of New Hampshire
- 123 shared
Meera Sreedhara
Cherokee Nation
- 122 shared
Robin Riessman
University of Massachusetts Amherst
- 121 shared
Bridget Kerner
Office of Minority Health
Education
- 1999
Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, Psychology
University of Rhode Island
- 1997
MA in Experimental Psychology, Psychology
University of Rhode Island
- 1995
BA in Psychology/Sociliogy, Psychology
Syracuse University
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