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Wei Xu PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Institute for Health and Humanity
Division of Institute for Health and Humanity Research

OFFICE ADDRESS:
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Phone: +1 (414) 9558109
Email: weixu@mcw.edu

EDUCATION:
08/2003 - 06/2007 BE in Land Resource Management, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
08/2012 - 06/2014 MS in Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
08/2014 - 06/2019 PhD in Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
08/2019 - 08/2020 Postdoctoral research associate, Center for Demography of Health and Aging, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
08/2020 - 02/2023 Assistant Scientist (II), Center for Demography of Health and Aging, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:
02/2023 - Present Assistant Professor, Institute for Health and Humanity, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

CENTER/INSTITUTE AFFILIATIONS:
02/2023 - Present Member, Center for Cancer Discovery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
02/2023 - Present Member, Center for Demography of Health and Aging, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:
2012 - 2015 Treasurer, Student Chapter of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2012 - 2013 Project assistant. Public Relations Committee, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2013 Graduate Student Representative, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2016 - 2017 Project assistant, Undergraduate Program Committee, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
08/2023 - Present Course Director, Institute for Health and Humanity, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

RESEARCH ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:
04/2022 - Present Member, Center for Scientific Review (CSR) Early Career Reviewer (ECR) program, National Institutes of Health
2023 - Present Faculty Member, Center for Cancer Discovery, Geospatial, Epidemiology and Outcomes Shared Resource (GEOSR), Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
2024 - Present Reviewer, Research Affairs Committee (RAC) New Faculty Pilot Grants, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
2024 - 2025 Reviewer, Lifestyle and Health Behavior section, National Institute on Aging

AWARDS AND HONORS:
2014 - 2018 Mary Jo Read Travel Award, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2015 Chancellor’s Graduate Student Award, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
2015 Health and Medical Geography Special Group (HMGSG) Travel Award, American Association of Geographers (AAG)
2015 2nd Place, Student GIS Project Competition, GIS Council, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2017 Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2018 Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2025 Outstanding Educator Award, School of Graduate Studies, Medical College of Wisconsin

MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
2012 - Present American Association of Geographers (AAG) (Member, Specialty groups: Health and Medical Geography, Geographic Information Science & System, Spatial Analysis & Modeling, Population)
2015 - Present The International Association of Chinese Professionals in Geographical Information Sciences (CPGIS) (Member)
2015 - Present International Society of Urban Health (Member)
2019 - Present Population Association of America (PAA) (Member)
2021 - Present Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) Big Microdata Network (Member)
2021 - Present Network for Data-Intensive Research on Aging (NDIRA), University of Minnesota (Member)
2022 - Present International Society of Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) (Member)
2023 - Present Wisconsin Cancer Collaborative (Member)
2025 - Present Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA) (Member)
2025 - Present Wisconsin Heat Health Network (WHHN) (Member)
2026 - Present Network on Aging Sexual Minority Populations, UT-Austin Center on Aging and Population Sciences (CAPS) (Member)

EDITORSHIPS/EDITORIAL BOARDS/JOURNAL REVIEWS:
Editorship
07/01/2026 - Present Population
Editorial Board
10/01/2024 - Present Wellbeing, Space and Society
Ad-Hoc Reviewer
Preventing Chronic Diseases
Health & Place
Journal Of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance
Demography
Environmental Justice
Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City
The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences (JGPS)
SSM-Population Health
Urban Planning
BMC Public Health
Population Studies
Journal of Population Economics
Health Affairs Scholar
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

LOCAL/REGIONAL APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
2022 Co-coordinator, Nextgenpop program, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

NATIONAL ELECTED/APPOINTED LEADERSHIP AND COMMITTEE POSITIONS:
10/2023 - 06/2026 Member, Harold M. Rose Award Committee, American Association of Geographers
07/2026 - Present Chair, Harold M. Rose Award Committee, American Association of Geographers

RESEARCH GRANTS/AWARDS/CONTRACTS/PROJECTS:
Active
Peer Review
Title:
Housing Instability and Health Among Racially and Ethnically Minoritized Wisconsin Cancer Survivors
Source:
Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment
Role & Effort:
Principal Investigator
PI:
mPI with Dr. Kirsten Beyer
Dates:
07/2025 - 06/2027
Direct Funds:
$250,000
  
Non-Peer Review
Title:
GIS-based linkage to evaluate the impacts of historical redlining, contemporary mortgage lending bias, racial segregation and racial composition on cancer and cancer-related behaviors in CPS-3
Source:
American Cancer Society
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Dr. Kirsten Beyer
Dates:
01/2023 - 12/2026
  
Title:
Incorporating Residential Histories into Assessment of Cancer Risk in a Predominantly Low-income and Racially Diverse Population
Source:
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Role & Effort:
Co-Investigator
PI:
Dr. Kirsten Beyer
Dates:
09/2023 - 08/2026
  
Prior
Peer Review
Title:
Interactive effects of physical activity and neighborhood air pollution on risk of incident Alzheimer's disease and related dementia
Source:
NIH
PI:
Wei Xu
Dates:
04/2021 - 04/2024
Direct Funds:
$197,820
  
Title:
Identifying long-term care deserts in Wisconsin.
Source:
Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment
PI:
Wei Xu
Dates:
01/2024 - 12/2024
Direct Funds:
$50,000
  
Title:
Life course neighborhood disadvantage, psychosocial health and biological aging
Source:
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Role & Effort:
PI
PI:
mPI w Dr. Christina Kamis (UIUC)
Dates:
07/2024 - 06/2025
Direct Funds:
$36,209 (NIA P30 Pilot Grant)
  
Non-Peer Review
Title:
Life Course Neighborhood Disadvantage and Racial Inequalities in Epigenetic Aging
Source:
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Role & Effort:
Subaward PI
PI:
Drs. Michal Engelman, Kristen Malecki
Dates:
06/2023 - 05/2024
Direct Funds:
$47,647 (NIA R01 subaward)
  

INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
International
Wei Xu, Zengwang Xu, Developing Population Grid with Demographic Trait: An Example for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. 2014, AAG Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, 2014
Wei Xu, The geography of mortality attributed to Alzheimer’s disease and its association with socioeconomic context in the contiguous United States, 2000 -2010, International Medical Geography Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, 2015
Wei Xu, Changshan Wu, Social deprivation, Rurality and Mortality of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia in the Contiguous United States, AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2016
Wei Xu, Changshan Wu, Detecting spatiotemporal clusters of dementia mortality in the United States, 2000-2010, AAG Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2017
Wei Xu, Changshan Wu, Area social deprivation, social capital and individual dementia mortality risk in US older adults: a population-based study, AAG Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2018
Wei Xu, Changshan Wu, Synergistic effects of social and physical environments on dementia mortality risk, AAG Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2019
Wei Xu, Lifecourse place exposure and mortality, Institute of Economy, Geography and Demography. Centre for Human and Social Sciences. Spanish National Research Council, 2021
Wei Xu, Changshan Wu, Jason Fletcher, Geographic and temporal variations in the place of death of dementia patients in the United States, AAG Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2021
Wei Xu, Jason Fletcher, Michal Engelman, From convergence to divergence: Lifespan variation in US states, 1959-2017, AAG Annual Meeting, Virtual, 2022
Wei Xu, Associations of physical activity and air pollution with incident dementia: a population-based prospective cohort study, AAG Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 2023
Wei Xu, Christina Kamis, Amy Schultz, Kristen Malecki, Michal Engelman, Cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and racial disparities in biological aging, International Symposium of Medical Geography, Atlanta, GA, 2024
Wei Xu, Yiming Zhang, Physical activity, air pollution and incidence of dementia subtypes, AAG Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 2024
Wei Xu, Lulu Liu, Godwin Okoduwa, Evaluating spatial accessibility of long-term care resources and disparities: a case study of Wisconsin, USA, AAG Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, 2025
Christina Kamis, Wei Xu, Joseph Clark, Amy Schultz, Kristen Malecki, Michal Engelman, How Does Life Course Exposure to Residential Disadvantage Accelerate Biological Aging? The Role of Psychological Symptoms, AAG annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2026
 
National
Wei Xu, Changshan Wu, Kevin Matthews, Anne H. Gaglioti, James B. Holt, Janet B. Croft, Dominic Mack, Lisa C. McGuire, Racial/ethnic estimates of dementia prevalence and spatiotemporal clustering of dementia mortality in the United States, Workshop on leveraging existing data and analytic methods for health disparities research related to aging and Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, Duke University, Durham, NC, 2021
 
Regional
Wei Xu, Christina Kamis, Amy Schultz, Kristen Malecki, Michal, Operationalizing life course cumulative exposure to contextual disadvantage for health research, Synergies in Longitudinal Studies Conference, Madison, WI, 2022
Wei Xu, Understanding aging from a geospatial perspective, Statewide disparities working Group, Wisconsin Health Information Organization & Wisconsin Health Quality Collaborative, Virtual, 2023
Christina Kamis, Wei Xu, Joseph Clark, Amy Schultz, Kristen Malecki, Michal Engelman, How Does Life Course Exposure to Residential Disadvantage Accelerate Biological Aging? The Role of Psychological Symptoms, Center for Demography of Health and Aging Spring 2026 Research Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 2026
Max Bobholz, Shana Terai Lai, Yuhong Zhou, Justin Hegarty, Courtney Janikowski, Carlos Rodriguez, Wei Xu, Kirsten Beyer, Recess Reimagined: Physical Activity Patterns Across Greened Schoolyards in Milwaukee, Weathering the Storm: Courage in Caring for our Communities and Climate, De Pere, WI, 2026
 
Local
Wei Xu, Stephen Appel, GIS and High-Performance Computing, UWM Libraries Digital Humanities Lab, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2017
Wei Xu, Yan Zhang, Joseph Clark, Postdocs: what are they for and how do you get them?, Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE), University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2020
Wei Xu, Changshan Wu, Jason Fletcher, Place of death of dementia decedents in the United States: a time-series cross-sectional analysis, Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders Research Day, Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, 2021
Wei Xu, The benefits and realities of working on an interdisciplinary team, MCW Public and Community Health seminar, Milwaukee, WI, 2023
Godwin Okoduwa, Lulu Liu, Wei Xu, Geographical disparities in access to assisted living facilities in Wisconsin, Wisconsin Science Education and Research (WiSER) Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 2024
 

PEER REVIEWED WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS:
International
Wei Xu, Jason Fletcher, Michal Engelman, Geographic decomposition of US lifespan variations, PAA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2022
Wei Xu, Changshan Wu, Jason Fletcher, Assessment of Changes in the Place of Death of Older Adults Who Died from Dementia in the United States, PAA Annual Meeting, Virtual, 2022
Wei Xu, Interactive effects of physical activity and air pollution on incident dementia, ISEE Annual Meeting (Virtual), Athens, Greece, 2022
Wei Xu, Christina Kamis, Amy Schultz, Kristen Malecki, Michal Engelman, Life course cumulative exposure to contextual (dis)advantage and health: Evidence from the SHOW study, PAA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2022
Wei Xu, Christina Kamis, Amy Schultz, Kristen Malecki, Michal Engelman, Life course neighborhood exposures and accelerated biological aging: Integrating residential histories with epigenetic markers, PAA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2023
Christina Kamis, Wei Xu, Amy Schultz, Kristen Malecki, Michal Engelman, Life Course Trajectories of Exposure to Residential Disadvantage in Wisconsin: Differences across Cohort and Race/Ethnicity, PAA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2023
Rachel Pomazal, Wei Xu, Christina Kamis, Amy Schultz, Megan Agnew, Shoshannah Eggers, Amy Trentham-Diet, Michal Engelman, Kristen Malecki, Should I stay or should I go? Residence length and place-based exposure to per-and poly-fluoroalkyl substance (PFAS), and lead (Pb), International Society of Exposure Science Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2024
Rachel Pomazal, Wei Xu, Christina Kamis, Amy Schultz, Megan Agnew, Shoshannah Eggers, Amy Trentham-Diet, Michal Engelman, Kristen Malecki, Residence Length and Place-Based Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), and Lead (Pb), PAA Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, 2024
Wei Xu, Christina Kamis, Amy Schultz, Kristen Malecki, Michal Engelman, Double jeopardy?: Contributions of life course neighborhood exposures to Black-White disparities in epigenetic aging, PAA Annual Meeting, Columbus, OH, 2024
Lara, S. T., Zhou, Y., Jankowski, C., Hegarty, J., Neeb, L., Rodriguez, C., Xu, W., Canales, B., Kai, Y., De Leon, E., Angel-Gonzalez, J., Hafeez, I., Beyer, K. M. M., Elementary school students’ physical activity levels on greened schoolyards at recess, APHA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 2024
Sarah Salas, Joseph Clark, Wei Xu, Michal Engelman, Kristen Malecki, Perceived Discrimination and Biological Aging Across Three Epigenetic Clocks, PAA Annual Meeting, Columbus OH, 2024
Meiyi Li, Wei Xu, Christina Kamis, Amy Schultz, Kristen Malecki, Michal Engelman, Reexamining the Health Implications of Objective and Subjective Neighborhood Measures: New Insights from REWARD, GSA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2025
Godwin Okoduwa, Wei Xu, Ronald Anguzu, Kirsten Beyer, Primary health care access in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review, APHA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2025
Godwin Okoduwa, Wei Xu, Ronald Anguzu, Kirsten Beyer, Chronic kidney disease management in Nigeria: Challenges and opportunities, APHA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2025
Wei Xu, Christina Kamis, Joseph Clark, Amy Schultz, Kristen Malecki, Michal Engelman, Cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and racial and geographic disparities in epigenetic aging, PAA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2025
Konok Akter, Wei Xu, Is digital access associated with better maternal care in Bangladesh? Evidence from the Bangladesh Demographic and Health Survey, APHA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2025
 

COMMITTEE SERVICE:
Medical College of Wisconsin
2024 Member, Admission Committee, Public and Community Health PhD program
2024 - Present Memeber, Research Affairs Committee, Office of Faculty Affairs
2025 Member, Admissions Committee, Public and Community Health PhD program
2025 - Present Member, Data Science Institute (DSI) Research Accelerator Initiative
 

EXTRAMURAL TEACHING:
Graduate Student Education
2016 - 2017 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Guest lecturer, Quantitative Analysis in Geography
 

PROGRAMMATIC DEVELOPMENTS:
Educational Programs
Faculty
07/2025 - Present Developing ArcGIS Pro training program and materials
 
Research Programs
06/2026 - Present Developing workflow for harmonizing residential histories using commercial databases
 
 
 

MEDIA:
2025 Addressing Long-Term Care Inequities: Dr. Wei Xu’s Mission to Bridge the Gap. https://www.mcw.edu/mcwknowledge/mcw-stories/addressing-long-term-care-inequities-dr-wei-xu-mission-to-bridge-the-gap
2026 “Your neighborhood, plus emotional stress, may be aging you prematurely,” University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign News Bureau


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Matthews KA, Xu W, Gaglioti AH, Holt JB, Croft JB, Mack D, McGuire LC. Racial and ethnic estimates of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in the United States (2015-2060) in adults aged ≥65 years. Alzheimers Dement. 2019 Jan;15(1):17-24. PMCID: PMC6333531
2. Xu W, Wu C. Detecting spatiotemporal clusters of dementia mortality in the United States, 2000-2010. Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2018 Nov;27:11-20.
3. Namin S, Xu W, Zhou Y, Beyer K. The legacy of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation and the political ecology of urban trees and air pollution in the United States. Soc Sci Med. 2020 Feb;246:112758.
4. Max Bobholz, Carly Schanock, Tinuola Oladebo, Crispus Mwemaho, Julius Ssentongo, Agnes Nyabigambo, Julia Dickson-Gomez, Bryan Johnston, Roy Mayega, Wei Xu, John Bosco Isunju, Kirsten Beyer. Understanding the burden of poor health outcomes among climate-related migrant populations in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review
5. Xu W, Wu C, Fletcher J. Assessment of changes in place of death of older adults who died from dementia in the United States, 2000-2014: a time-series cross-sectional analysis. BMC Public Health. 2020 Jun 11;20(1):765. PMCID: PMC7288493
6. Xu W, Engelman M, Palloni A, Fletcher J. Where and When: Sharpening the lens on geographic disparities in mortality. SSM Popul Health. 2020 Dec;12:100680. PMCID: PMC7645634
7. Xu W, Topping M, Fletcher J. State of birth and cardiovascular disease mortality: Multilevel analyses of the National Longitudinal Mortality Study. SSM Popul Health. 2021 Sep;15:100875. PMCID: PMC8319560
8. Xu W, Engelman M, Fletcher J. From convergence to divergence: Lifespan variation in US states, 1959-2017. SSM Popul Health. 2021 Dec;16:100987. PMCID: PMC8666353
9. Namin S, Zhou Y, Xu W, McGinley E, Jankowski C, Laud P, Beyer K. Persistence of mortgage lending bias in the United States: 80 years after the Home Owners' Loan Corporation security maps. J Race Ethn City. 2022;3(1):70-94. PMCID: PMC9387904
10. Akushevich I, Kravchenko J, Yashkin A, Doraiswamy PM, Hill CV, Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementia Health Disparities Collaborative Group. Expanding the scope of health disparities research in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: Recommendations from the "Leveraging Existing Data and Analytic Methods for Health Disparities Research Related to Aging and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias" Workshop Series. Alzheimers Dement (Amst). 2023;15(1):e12415. PMCID: PMC10020680
11. Xu W, Agnew M, Kamis C, Schultz A, Salas S, Malecki K, Engelman M. Constructing Residential Histories in a General Population-Based Representative Sample. Am J Epidemiol. 2024 Feb 05;193(2):348-359. PMCID: PMC10840075
12. Kamis C, Xu W, Schultz A, Malecki K, Engelman M. Linking sequences of exposure to residential (dis)advantage, individual socioeconomic status, and health. Health Place. 2024 Jul;88:103262. PMCID: PMC11878194
13. Wei Xu, Christina Kamis, Megan Agnew, Amy Schultz, Sarah Salas, Kristen Malecki, Michal Engelman. The health implications of cumulative exposure to contextual (dis)advantage: Methodological and substantive advances from a unique data linkage American Journal of Epidemiology. .
14. Xu W, Engelman M, Malecki K, Kamis C, Schultz A, Agnew M, Salas S. Xu et al respond to "Invited commentary: improving spatial exposure data for everyone-life-course social context and ascertaining residential history". Am J Epidemiol. 2025 Mar 04;194(3):578-579. PMCID: PMC11879522
15. Kirsten Beyer, Wei Xu, Yuhong Zhou, Kai Yang, Jaime Madrigano, Anita Chandra. The Environmental Racism Index: estimating the strength of association among environmental risk/benefit, mortgage lending disinvestment, and racial/ethnic density across US geographies
16. Xu W, Kamis C, Clark J, Schultz A, Engelman M, Malecki K. Cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and racial and geographic disparities in epigenetic aging. SSM Popul Health. 2025 Sep;31:101825. PMCID: PMC12206060
17. Fraunhofer, Linda, Laura Cassidy, John Meurer, Wei Xu, Catherine Wright, Jennifer Ennis, Rajiv Saran, and Jennifer Bragg-Gresham.. Guideline Adherence for Kidney Disease Testing at Federally Qualified Health Centers JAMA Netw Open. .
18. Kamis C, Xu W, Schultz A, Clark J, Engelman M, Malecki K. How does life course exposure to contextual disadvantage accelerate biological aging? The role of psychological symptoms. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2025 Nov 05;80(12). PMCID: PMC12584352
19. Shumba CS, Dawson AZ, Xu W, Muchanga K, Lusambili A. Climate seasonality and the health and well-being of older adults in rural Busia and Kilifi Counties, Kenya: SENIORS study - protocol for a qualitative study. BMJ Open. 2025 Oct 02;15(10):e103956. PMCID: PMC12496071
20. Zhang Y, Xu W. Accelerometer-based physical activity, air pollution and risk of dementia subtypes: a prospective study using UK biobank. Front Public Health. 2025;13:1695462. PMCID: PMC12835275
21. Max Bobholz, Carly Schanock, Tinuola Oladebo, Crispus Mwemaho, Julius Ssentongo, Agnes Nyabigambo, Julia Dickson-Gomez, Bryan Johnston, Roy Mayega, Wei Xu, John Bosco Isunju, Kirsten Beyer. Understanding the burden of poor health outcomes among climate-related migrant populations in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review Health & Place. .
22. Kirsten Beyer, Wei Xu, Yuhong Zhou, Kai Yang, Jaime Madrigano, Anita Chandra. The Environmental Racism Index: estimating the strength of association among environmental risk/benefit, mortgage lending disinvestment, and racial/ethnic density across US geographies Social Science and Medicine. .
 
Non-Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Wei Xu, Godwin Edoseawe, Lulu Liu, Statewide Disparities in Long-Term Care Access in Wisconsin, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yHEk5eHIyigSGxUPD_St0lK6trWy-Ute/view?usp=drive_link
2. Wanjing Yang, Chengbin Deng, Di Liu, Chenghao Wang, Wei Xu. High-Resolution Surface NO2 Estimation using TEMPO and Multi-source Geospatial Data. (under review)
3. Edoseawe Godwin Okoduwa, Becky Alford, Kirsten Beyer, Ronald Anguzu, Wei Xu. Systematic review of primary care access in sub-Saharan Africa (under review)
4. Max Bobholz, Bryan Johnston, Julia Dickson-Gomez, Wei Xu, Roy Mayega, John Bosco Isunju, Kirsten Beyer. Proposing the Climate-related Migration Framework (CMF) for environmental migrants in Sub-Saharan Africa: a narrative review of migration and integration models (under review)
5. Meiyi Li, Wei Xu, Christina Kamis, Amy Schultz, Kristen Malecki, Michal Engelman. Objective and subjective neighborhood disadvantage and epigenetic age acceleration (under review)
6. Rachel Pomazal, Wei Xu, Christina Kamis, Amy Schultz, Megan Agnew, Shoshannah Eggers, Amy Trentham-Diet, Michal Engelman, Kristen Malecki. Cumulative Neighborhood Disadvantage in relation to Serum PFAS and Urinary Lead: Evidence Using Residential History (under review)
7. Wei Xu. Self-report and accelerometer-based physical activity and incident dementia (under review)
8. Yiming Zhang, Changshan Wu, Wei Xu. Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Service Industry Resilience under Prolonged COVID-19 Disruptions: A Case Study of Shanghai Using POI-based Analysis (under review)
9. "It is just the air that brings disease": older people's explanatory models of the body and illness under rising heat (under review)
10. “When you die and it is raining, it is a big problem": A qualitative study of how climate extremes reshape life, death, and wellbeing among older adults in Busia and Kilifi Counties, Kenya (under review)
11. Health workers' and policy makers' perspectives on health systems and access to care for older adults under climate stress in flood-prone Busia and drought-prone Kilifi, Kenya (under review)
12. Landscape, patterns, and experiences of climate-related displacement in Uganda: a geospatial document analysis (under review)
13. Kai Yang, Yuhong Zhou, Wei Xu, Kirsten Beyer. A New Multiple Correlation Coefficient without Specifying the Dependent Variable (under review)