Healthy Communities, Workplaces, & Lifestyles
The health and well-being of communities is dependent on a multitude of factors. Environmental sustainability touches many of them: community food systems, green space & urban tree canopy, and access to clean, drinkable water among them. Sometimes oversimplified to an issue of choice, the health status and lifestyle choices of community members are often a byproduct of the systems – political, economic, social – in which they exist. Many JHU affiliates study and implement methods to increase agency and accessibility to resources within communities across impact areas.-
Carl Latkin
Professor; Vice Chair, Department of Health, Behavior, & SocietyCarl Latkin, PhD, conducts biobehavioral interventions for disadvantaged communities, with a focus on social networks, substance use, infectious diseases, and mental health. Through the Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Latkin works on promoting collective action for climate change and evaluating and enhancing the work of national organizations that address climate change. -
Robert S. Lawrence
Professor EmeritusRobert S. Lawrence, MD, PhD, is interested in the environmental impacts of industrial agriculture, food security, and health and human rights. In 1996, Dr. Lawrence founded the Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. -
Jason Lee
Data AnalystJason Lee, MSPH, specializes in developing and implementing novel statistical analysis approaches and experimental test designs to examine relationships within data across health care, science, and engineering. His primary interests lie in healthcare data analytics, including modeling quality of care dynamics, disease outbreak dynamics, and other health-related outcomes, as well as biometrics and biomedical engineering research. -
Dave Love
Senior ScientistDave Love, PhD, focuses on aquaculture and fisheries and the environmental, social, health and food systems issues related to those industries. -
Mac McComas
Senior Program Manager, 21CC; Project Manager, BSECMac McComas is the senior program manager at Johns Hopkins' 21st Century Cities Initiative (21CC), the hub for innovative, interdisciplinary, academic urban research at Hopkins, and the project manager at the Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative. Mac is interested in urban issues related to climate change, sustainability, entrepreneurship, economic development, access to opportunity, education, transportation, housing, public policy, and infrastructure. -
Yeeli Mui
Assistant ProfessorYeeli Mui, PhD '17, MPH, examines how urban planning affects healthy food access, including land ownership, transportation, and community development.
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