Hajat, Hamilton, and Jones-Smith Publish Research Article in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities
Posted: 8/20/2026 ()
CSDE Affiliate Anjum Hajat (Epidemiology), CSDE Senior Research Scientist Deven Hamilton, CSDE External Affiliate Jessica Jones-Smith (UC Irvine), PhD Student Pamela Bonsu (Health Systems and Population Health), and their co-authors recently published a research article in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities titled, “From Past to Present: Examining the Associations Between Historical Racialized Housing Interventions and Current-Day Neighborhood-level Outcomes: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.” This study examined the associations between two historical racialized federal housing interventions—HOLC security maps and urban renewal—and neighborhood racial composition, median household income, and food environment across six recruitment sites of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. They estimated mean census tract characteristics for each decennial census year from 1940 to 2010, overall and by exposure to HOLC Grade D, urban renewal, both, and neither. To read their team’s findings, visit this link.