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Biography & ExpertiseAriane Rung, PhD, MPH, is currently an Associate Professor in Epidemiology at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Public Health in New Orleans. Her research interests over the past 20 years center around the effects of the physical and social environment on health. Research she has collaborated on includes studies examining the effect of the built environment on physical activity among middle school girls as well as studies examining the relationship between physical activity and neighborhood parks. Her research was interrupted and subsequently refocused following the spate of disasters experienced in Louisiana, including Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the BP Oil Spill in 2010. Her current research is on the short- and long-term health effects of the oil spill, specifically focusing on the relationship between social and built environments, disaster recovery, and mental health. Her team is following a group of ~2800 women in southern Louisiana and collecting data on physical and mental health symptoms as wells as a variety of social characteristics and health behaviors. Dr. Rung also teaches a variety of courses for the Epidemiology MPH and PhD programs, including introductory epidemiology, epidemiologic methods, survey methods, and social epidemiology. EducationPhD Behavioral Epidemiology Tulane University 1999 MPH Public Health Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine 1994 BA Politics Brandeis University 1988 Selected PublicationsGaston, S. A., Volaufova, J., Peters, E. S., Ferguson, T. F., Robinson, W. T., Nugent, N., Trapido, E. J., & Rung, A. (2017, June). Individual-level exposure to disaster, neighborhood environmental characteristics, and their independent and combined associations with depressive symptoms in women.. Rung, A., Gaston, S., Robinson, W. T., Trapido, E. J., & Peters, E. S. (2017, March). Untangling the disaster-depression knot: The role of social ties after Deepwater Horizon. 177, 19-26. Rung, A., Gaston, S., Robinson, W. T., Trapido, E. J., & Peters, E. S. (2017, March). Untangling the disaster-depression knot: The role of social ties after Deepwater Horizon. 177, 19-26. Peters, E. S., Rung, A., Bronson, M., Brashear, M. M., Peres, L. C., Gaston, S., Sullivan, S. M., Peak, K., Abramson, D. M., Fontham ETH, Harrington, D. J., Oral, E., & Trapido, E. J. (2017, July (3rd Quarter/Summer)). The Women and Their Children's Health (WaTCH) study: methods and design of a prospective cohort study in Louisiana to examine the health effects from the BP oil spill. , 7(7), e014887. Gaston, S., Nugent, N., Peters, E. S., Ferguson, T. F., Trapido, E. J., Robinson, W. T., & Rung, A. (2016, November). Exploring heterogeneity and correlates of depressive symptoms in the Women and Their Children's Health (WaTCH) Study. 205, 190-199. Rung, A., Gaston, S., Oral, E., Robinson, W. T., Fontham, E., Harrington, D. J., Trapido, E. J., & Peters, E. S. (2016, September). Depression, Mental Distress, and Domestic Conflict among Louisiana Women Exposed to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the WaTCH Study. , 124(9), 1429-35. Rung, A., Gaston, S., Oral, E., Robinson, W. T., Fontham, E., Harrington, D. J., Trapido, E. J., & Peters, E. S. (2016, September). Depression, Mental Distress, and Domestic Conflict among Louisiana Women Exposed to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the WaTCH Study. , 124(9), 1429-35. Peres, L. C., Trapido, E. J., Rung, A., Harrington, D. J., Oral, E., Fang, Z., Fontham, E., & Peters, E. S. (2016, August). The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Physical Health among Adult Women in Southern Louisiana: The Women and Their Children's Health (WaTCH) Study. , 124(8), 1208-13. Sullivan, S. M., Peters, E. S., Trapido, E. J., Oral, E., Scribner, R., & Rung, A. (2016, June). Assessing mediation of behavioral and stress pathways in the association between neighborhood environments and obesity outcomes. 4, 248-55. Sullivan, S. M., Peters, E. S., Trapido, E. J., Oral, E., Scribner, R., & Rung, A. (2016, June). Assessing mediation of behavioral and stress pathways in the association between neighborhood environments and obesity outcomes. 4, 248-55.
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