762 - Interview With a Graduate: A New Doctor of Epidemiology Connects Physical Activity to Cognitive Health
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
It's graduation time at the Bloomberg School! Doctoral candidate Francesca Marino joins the podcast to talk about how her interest in neuroscience led her to pursue a degree in epidemiology, and about her research looking into whether and how daily patterns of physical activity tracked through a wearable device could indicate cognitive health or decline.
Guest: Dr. Francesca Marino is a recent graduate of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health whose research focuses on the epidemiology of aging.
Host: Dr. Josh Sharfstein is vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a faculty member in health policy, a pediatrician, and former secretary of Maryland's Health Department.
Show links:
- Associations of Physical Activity and Heart Rate Variability from a Two-Week ECG Monitor with Cognitive Function and Dementia: the ARIC Neurocognitive Study—PubMed
- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Activity, Sleep & Dementia—Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine
- Get the transcript for this episode (PDF)
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| 1:28.8 | at jhhut.edu, and thank you for being part of this podcast. It's graduation time at the Johns |
| 1:36.0 | Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and today Dr. Sharfstein catches up with one of our |
| 1:40.8 | amazing graduates. She is the soon to be Dr. Francesca Marino, who has earned her |
| 1:46.5 | PhD in epidemiology with work linking movement to cognitive problems through the creative |
| 1:52.8 | analysis of very large data sets. Let's listen. Francesca Marino, thank you so much for joining me |
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