Laura Bloomfield
Research Assistant Professor, MassMutual Center of Excellence in Complex Systems & Data Science, Mathematics & Statistics, Gund Institute for Environment
Areas of Expertise and/or Research: Nature and human health, health tracking technology, human-wildlife diseases, human behavior, environment
Selected Publications
Meeting people where they are: Crowdsourcing goal-specific personalized wellness practices
PLOS Digital Health, Nov. 19, 2024
Nightly heart rate variability as a biomarker of mental health changes in college students
2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN), Oct. 15, 2024
The two fundamental shapes of sleep heart rate dynamics and their connection to mental health in college students
Digital Biomarkers, July 1, 2024
Events and behaviors associated with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder in first-year college students
PsyArXiv Preprint, June 20, 2024
Predicting stress in first-year college students using sleep data from wearable devices
PLOS Digital Health, April 11, 2024
A large clinical trial to improve well-being during the transition to college using wearables: The lived experiences measured using rings study
Contemporary Clinical Trials, Sept. 21, 2023
Park visitation and walkshed demographics in the United States
Preprint, May 20, 2023
Selected Press
Finding signals in the noise: Using data to develop personalized recipes for health
UVM Today, Oct. 10, 2023