Jessica Finlay

Jessica Finlay Receives Emerging Scholar Award in Health and Medical Geography

Anonymous — Wed, 01 May 2024 14:18:23 +0000

Jessica Finlay Receives Emerging Scholar Award in Health and Medical Geography Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 05/01/2024 - 08:18

During the 2024 Association of American Geographers (AAG) meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, Dr. Jessica Finlay was awarded the Emerging Scholar Award in Health and Medical Geography. This is a highly competitive award. According to the AAG website, this award "seeks to recognize early career scholars who show significant potential for distinguished scholarship in health and/or medical geography." Dr. Finlay will be invited to give a special symposium talk on her research during the 2025 AAG conference in Detroit, Michigan.

We look forward to her symposium talk!

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Jessica Finlay presents to the National Academies

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 20:51:47 +0000

Jessica Finlay presents to the National Academies Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 12/19/2023 - 13:51

New Assistant Professor, Dr. Jessica Finlay was part of an "Aging in Place with Dementia" workshop hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She presented her Cognability research to investigate how neighborhood built and social environments impact brain-healthy activities and risk for Alzheimer's disease in later life. You can learn more about the workshop here and check out your neighborhood's Cognability score here.

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Jessica Finlay joins the Department of Geography and Institute of Behavioral Science

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 20:47:02 +0000

Jessica Finlay joins the Department of Geography and Institute of Behavioral Science Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 12/19/2023 - 13:47

Jessica is a health geographer who uses mixed methods to investigate how built, social, and natural environments impact health and wellbeing across the life course. She has developed a new concept, Cognability, to capture how neighborhoods may support brain health through opportunities to exercise, socialize, and think/learn in later life. You can check out a preliminary Cognability score for your neighborhood here.

Jessica grew up on the other side of the Rocky Mountains in Vancouver (Canada). When not at her desk, Jessica is most often chasing after her two fast-moving children (aged 2 and 4), running the ��«��Ƶ trails with her partner Matt, or curled up with a pop fiction book.

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