JASON CORBURN, PhD, MCP
Associate Professor
University of California, Berkeley
School of Public Health & Department of City and Regional Planning
410c Wurster Hall,
Berkeley, CA 92720-1850
[email protected]
+1-510-643-4790 (ph), +1-510- 642-1641 (fax)
www.jasoncorburn.com www.iurd.berkeley.edu healthycities.berkley.edu healthyurbanplanning.blogspot.com nairobistudio.blogspot.com/ twitter: @jasoncorburn EDUCATION2002 Ph.D. in Urban Environmental Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2003-5 Post-doc, Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University 1996 Masters in City Planning (MCP), MIT
1992 BA, Politics, Brandeis University
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2015- Director, Institute of Urban & Regional Development (IURD), UC Berkeley. 2013 Visiting Professor, University of Paris X, Ouest, Nanterre la Défense
2012 -15 Co-Director, Global Metropolitan Studies, UC Berkeley (www.metrostudies.berkley.edu) 2011 - Director, Center for Global Healthy Cities, UC Berkeley (www.healthycities.berkeley.edu) 2010 - Associate Professor, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley.
2009 - Associate Professor, University of California Berkeley, Department of City & Regional Planning. Faculty affiliate, Energy and Resources Group.
2007-9 Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of City & Regional Planning 2005-7 Assistant Professor (joint appointment), Columbia University, School of International & Public Affairs
and Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
2002-5 Co-Director, Center for Occupational & Environmental Health, Hunter College, CUNY
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
2015- World Health Organization, Urban Health Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland 1994-2002 The Consensus Building Institute, Environmental Mediator, Cambridge, MA.
1996-98 Department of Environmental Protection, Senior Planner, City of New York, NY. 1992-94 National Environmental Law Center, Litigation Researcher,New York, NY.
AWARDS
2016 “Street Science,” 4th most frequently read book at Brandeis University. 2015 Fellow, Arts Research Center (ARC), UC Berkeley. Design for Health. 2015 Chancellors’ Community Leaders Award, Richmond Health in All Policies.
2013 Global Citizen Award, Implementing the Millennium Development Goals, United Nations Association. 2009 Journal of the American Planning Association, Street Science, “One of the Most Influential Books of
the first 100 years of American urban planning.”
2008 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Policy Investigator Award
2007 Paul Davidoff, Best Book Award. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 2007 COR Junior Faculty Research Award, UC Berkeley
2002 Outstanding Dissertation, MIT, Department of Urban Studies & Planning
2002 Finalist, Barclay Jones Outstanding Dissertation Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 2000-02 Fellow, National Environmental Leadership Program
PUBLICATIONS Books
1. Corburn, J. and Riley, L. (editors) 2016. (in-press). Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street. University of California Press.
2. Corburn, J. (editor). 2015. Healthy Cities: Critical Concepts in the Built Environment. Four Volume Edition. London: Routledge Press.
3. Corburn, J. 2013. Healthy City Planning: From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity. London: Routledge Press.
2015. Translated into Turkish.
4. Corburn, J. 2009. Toward the Healthy City: People, Places and the Politics of Urban Planning. The MIT Press.
2013. Translated into Korean.
5. Corburn, J. 2005. Street Science: Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice. The MIT Press.
Winner, 2007 Paul Davidoff Best Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Selected, 2009, by the Journal of the American Planning Association as one of the most influential books in the first 100 years of American City Planning.
Journal Articles (Peer Reviewed)
1. Corburn, J. 2015. Inclusive and Healthy Cities: Commentary on Transport, Social Exclusion and Health.
Journal of Transport and Health 2 (4): 618-619.
2. Corburn, J. Curl, S., and Arredondo, G and Malagon, J. 2015. Making Health Equity Planning Work: A Relational Approach in Richmond, California. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 35(3): 265– 281.
3. Corburn, J. 2015. City Planning as Preventive Medicine. Preventive Medicine. 77:48-51. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2015.04.022.
4. Marais, F., Minkler, M., Gibson, N., Mwau, B., Mehtar, S., Ogunsola, F., Banya, S.S., & Corburn, J. 2015. A community-engaged infection prevention and control approach to Ebola. Health Promotion
International. doi:10.1093/heapro/dav003.
5. Corburn, J. and Hildebrand, C. 2015. Slum Sanitation and the Social Determinants of Women’s Health in Nairobi, Kenya. Journal of Environmental and Public Health. doi:10.1155/2015/209505.
6. Corburn, J. and Karanja, I. 2014. Informal Settlements and a Relational View of Health in Nairobi, Kenya: Sanitation, Gender and Dignity. Health Promotion International. doi:10.1093/heapro/dau100.
7. Corburn, J. Curl, S. & Arredondo. 2014. A Health-In-All-Policies Approach Addresses Many Of Richmond, California’s Place-Based Hazards, Stressors. Health Affairs. 33 (11): 1905-1913.
8. Corburn, J., Curl, S., Arredondo, G., Malagon, J. 2014. Health in All Urban Policy: City Services through the Prism of Health. Journal of Urban Health. 91(4):623-36. doi: 10.1007/s11524-014-9886-3.
9. Schuchter, J., Bhatia, R., Corburn, J. & Seto, E. 2014. Health impact assessment in the United States: Has practice followed standards? Environmental Impact Assessment Review. 47:47–53.
10. Corburn, J. 2014. Health Impact Assessment. Oxford Bibliographies in Public Health.
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756797/obo-9780199756797-0080.xml 11. Snyder, R.E., Jaimes, G., Riley, L.W., Faerstein, E., Corburn, J. 2013. Comparison of Social and Spatial
Determinants of Health Between Formal and Informal Settlements in a Large Metropolitan Setting in Brazil. Journal of Urban Health. 91(3):432-45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11524-013-9848-1
12. Hacker, K.P., Seto, K.C., Cost, F. Corburn, J. Reis, M.G., Ko, A.I and Diuk-Wasser, M.A. 2013. Urban Slum Structure: Integrating Socioeconomic and Physical Data to Model Slum Evolution in Salvador, Brazil. International Journal of Health Geographics. 12:45. doi:10.1186/1476-072X-12-45.
13. Corburn, J. & Cohen, A. 2012. Why we need Indicators for Urban Health Equity: Integrating science, policy & community. PlosMedicine. 9(8): e1001285. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001285.
14. Corburn, J. and Bhatia, R. 2011. Lessons From San Francisco: Health Impact Assessments Have Advanced Political Conditions For Improving Population Health. Health Affairs. Vol. 30 no. 12: 2410-2418.
15. Corburn, J. 2010. Rebuilding the Foundations of Health: Planning for Healthier and More Equitable Places.
Planning Theory and Practice, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 435-441.
16. Corburn, J. 2009. Cities, climate change and urban heat island mitigation: Localizing global environmental science. Urban Studies, vol. 47, no. 2: 413-427.
17. Farhang, L., Bhatia, R., Scully, C. C., Corburn, J., Gaydos, M., Malekafzali, S. 2008. Creating Tools for Healthy Development: Case Study of San Francisco's Eastern Neighborhoods Community Health Impact Assessment. Journal of Public Health Management & Practice. Vol. 14, no. 3: 255-265.
18. Corburn, J. and Bhatia, R. 2007. Health impact assessment in San Francisco: Incorporating the social determinants of health into environmental planning. Journal of Environmental Planning & Management, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 323 – 341.
19. Corburn, J. 2007. Reconnecting with our roots: American urban planning and public health in the 21st century. Urban Affairs Review, vol. 42, pp. 688-713.
20. Corburn, J. 2007. Community knowledge in environmental health science: Co-producing policy expertise.
Environmental Science and Policy, vol. 10, pp. 150-161.
21. Corburn, J., Osleeb, J., Porter, M. 2006. Urban Asthma and Neighborhood Characteristics in New York City. Health and Place, vol. 12, pp. 167-179.
22. Corburn, J. 2005. Urban Planning and Health Disparities: Implications for Research and Practice.
Planning Practice and Research, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 111-126.
23. Corburn, J. 2004. Confronting the Challenges in Reconnecting Urban Planning and Public Health.
American Journal of Public Health, vol. 94, no. 4, pp. 541-546.
24. Corburn, J. 2003. Bringing Local Knowledge into Environmental Decision-Making: Improving Urban Planning for Communities at Risk. Journal of Planning Education and Research, vol. 22, pp. 420-433
25.Corburn, J. 2002. Environmental Justice, Local Knowledge and Risk: The Discourse of a Community-Based Cumulative Exposure Assessment. Environmental Management, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 451- 466. 26.Corburn, J. 2002. Combining Community-Based Research and Local Knowledge to Confront Asthma
and Subsistence-Fishing Hazards in Greenpoint/Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110(4), 241-248.
Book Chapters
1. Corburn, J. 2016 (forthcoming). “Promoting Health Equity through Community Planning,” in Tim Beatley (ed). Design and Health. University of Virginia Press.
2. Corburn, J., Ngau, P., Weru, J. and Makau, J. 2016 (forthcoming). “New Governance for Slum Health in Nairobi, Kenya,” in, Hidden Cities II: Unmasking and overcoming health inequities in urban settings.
UN-Habitat and World Health Organization, Geneva and Nairobi.
3. Corburn, J. Karanja, I & Makau, J. 2016 (in-press). “Co-producing Slum Health in Mathare, Nairobi, Kenya,” in, Evelyn de Leeuw and Jean Simos (eds). Healthy Cities: The Theory, Policy, and Practice of Value-Based Urban Health Planning. Springer.
4. Corburn, J. 2016 (in-press). “Equitable & Healthy City Planning: Towards Healthy Urban Governance in the Century of the City,” In, Evelyn de Leeuw and Jean Simos (eds). Healthy Cities: The Theory, Policy, and Practice of Value-Based Urban Health Planning. Springer.
5. Corburn, J. 2015. “Urban Inequities, Population Health & Spatial Planning,” (Chapter 3), In, Hugh Barton (ed.). Planning for Health and Well-Being: Shaping a Sustainable and Healthy Future. Informa UK Limited.
6. Corburn, J. 2014. “Civic Innovation, Deliberation and Health Impact Assessment: Democratic Planning and Civic Engagement in San Francisco” (Chapter 3), In, Girouard, J. and Sirianni, eds. Varieties of Civic Innovation: Deliberative, Collaborative, Network, and Narrative Approaches. Vanderbilt University Press.
7. Corburn, J. 2012. Urban Health Justice: Governance with people in places. CityScapes: A Journal of the African Centre on Cities. Vol. 1, no. 2. http://www.cityscapesdigital.net/2013/05/06/governance-with-people-in-places/
8. Corburn, J. 2013. “City Planning as a Structural Determinant of Health,” in Chapter 8, in M. Sommer and R. Parker (eds). Structural Approaches in Public Health. Routledge
9. Kirschenbaum, J. and Corburn, J. 2012. “Community Mapping and Geographic Information Systems,” In, Minkler et al (eds). Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Welfare, 3rd Edition. Rutgers University Press.
10. Corburn, J., Lee, A. Imara, N., and S. Swanston. 2012. “Collaborative Mapping for Health Equity: Making Place Visible,” Chapter 11, In, B. Israel, E. Eng, E. Parker & E. Schulz (eds). Methods For Conducting Community-Based Participatory Research For Health, 2nd Edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 11. Corburn, J. 2012. “Healthy and Just Cities,” In, T. Haas (ed). Sustainable Urbanism and Beyond:
Rethinking Cities For the Future. New York: Rizzoli Press.
12. Corburn, J. 2012. “Reconnecting Urban Planning and Public Health,” Chapter 20, In R. Crane and R. Weber (eds). Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning. New York: Oxford University Press.
13. Corburn, J. 2010. “Local Knowledge and Environmental Justice,” In. R. Bhatia and R. Hofrichter (eds).
Tackling Health Inequities Through Public Health Practice: Theory to Action, Oxford University Press, pp. 417-441.
14. Corburn, J. 2008. (w/Cashman, S., Allen, A.J., Israel, B.A., Montano, J., Rhodes, S.D., Swanston, S. & Eng, E.). “Analyzing and Interpreting Data with Communities,” In Minkler, M. and Wallerstein, N.
Community-Based Participatory Research for Health: From Process to Outcomes, 2nd Edition. Jossey-Bass. Pp. 285-306.
15. Corburn, J. 2007. “Government and Health Professionals Cannot Go It Alone in a Large-Scale Health Crisis,” In, Citizen Engagement in Emergency Planning for a Flu Pandemic. The National Academies Press. http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309107911.
16. Corburn, J. 2007. Community knowledge in environmental health science. Encyclopedia of Earth
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Community_knowledge_in_environmental_health_science
17. Corburn, J. 2006. Expanding the agenda for healthy urban planning. Journal of the American Planning Association. Special Issue on Planning and Public Health, vol. 72, pp. 119-121.
18. Corburn, J. 2004. The Role of Local Knowledge in Environmental Health Planning, in Advancing Sustainability at the Sub-National Level: The Potential and Limitations of Planning, (E. Feitelson, ed.). Burlington: Ashgate, pp. 173-195.
Scholarly Reports and Reviews
1. Corburn, J and Hildebrand, C. 2015. Sanitation and Women’s Health in Mukuru, Nairobi. Report for Akiba Mashinani Trust, Nairobi, Kenya.
2. Corburn, J. 2014. Health in All Policies Strategy. City of Richmond, California.
3. Corburn, J. 2013. Community Organizing for Health: Evaluation of the Long Beach Downtown Community Plan Campaign. Los Angeles: The California Endowment.
4. Corburn, J, Mujahid, M., and Seto, E.Y. 2013. Evaluation of the Mental Health Impact Assessment of Chicago’s Englewood Neighborhood. Adler School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL.
5. Corburn, J. and Faerstein, E. 2012. Urban and Health Policies in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Institute of Social Medicine.
6. Corburn, J. et al 2012. Integrated Informal Settlement Upgrading: The Mathare Zonal Plan. University of Nairobi, Kenya.
7. Corburn, J. 2011. Evaluation of the Implementation of Richmond’s Health and Wellness Element. Los Angeles: The California Endowment.
8. Corburn, J. 2009. Collaborative Slum Upgrading: Mathare, Nairobi Kenya. January
9. Corburn, J. 2007. (co-editor) Eastern Neighborhoods Community Health Impact Assessment: Final Report. September. Prepared for the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
10. Corburn, J. 2006. Community organizing, land use & health. Report and case studies prepared for, South of Market Community Action Network, San Francisco.
11. Corburn, J. 2004. “Health Inequities and Planning,” in Fostering Collaboration Between Planners and Public Environmental Health Officials. American Planning Association & National Association of County and City Health Officials. http://www.planning.org/research/pdf/healthycommsummary.pdf
RESEARCH GRANTS
2015-17 Investigator, UC Global Food Initiative (P.I. K. Pezzoli, UCSD). UC Office of the President. Urban Food Systems Asset Mapping Project (w/Charisma Acey). $235,400.
2013-15 Principal Investigator. France- Berkeley Fund. Global Urban Health: Collaborative Research for a New Science of the City. Project #2013-0026.
2013-14 Principal Investigator. Bay Area Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). Community Health Action: Richmond’s Climate Action Plan (CAP). $35,000.
2012-14 Principal Investigator. Richmond Health Equity Partnership, The California Endowment, $465,000 2012 -17 Researcher, Global Health Equity Scholars, National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International
Training Program. $5M.
2012-14 Co-Principal Investigator. An Examination of the Eastern Bayview/Alice Griffith Comprehensive Transformation Plan, Total: US Housing and Urban Development. $131,148
2010-13 Co-Principal Investigator (w/Lee Riley, Eva Harris & Kara Nelson). UC Berkeley Slum Health Colloquium. Institute International Studies, Interdisciplinary Program. $60,000.
2010-12 Principal Investigator. Collaborative Slum Upgrading in Nairobi, Kenya. The Rockefeller Foundation. $250,000
2009-10 California Air Resources Board. Health Assessment of Cap and Trade, Climate Change Policy. $15,000
2010-15 Researcher. Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC). University of California Multi-Campus Research Program Initiative (MRPI). $1.53 million.
2009-12 Principal Investigator. The California Endowment. Evaluating Healthy Urban Policy and Planning: Implementing the Health Element in Richmond, CA. $85,000
2009 Principal Investigator. The Blum Center for Developing Economies. Nairobi Studio: Slum upgrading in the Mathare Valley. $40,000.
2008-13 Principal Investigator. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Investigator Award. Toward the Healthy City. $327,000
2002-05 Principal Investigator. Mapping hazardous air pollutants and asthma in Greenpoint/ Williamsburg, NY.
Agency for Toxic Substances Disease Registry. Award #U50/ATU272296-01. $300,000. 2003-05 Principal Investigator. Retraining Community Health Workers. New York State, Department of
Health. Award #C-019557. $401,000
TEACHING
Courses
2015 PH198 – Urban Health Equity, UCB
2014 CY PLAN 202 – Gateway: Planning Practice
2009 - CY PLAN 291 - Nairobi Studio: Field & project based course, UCB 2008 -13 Public Health 267/CY PLAN 290f – Health Impact Assessment, UCB
2007 - CY PLAN 256 – Healthy Cites: Place, Planning & the Politics of Population Health, UCB 2007 - CY PLAN 251/LAEP 231 - Environmental Planning & Regulation, UCB
2007- CY PLAN 119 – Planning Sustainable Communities 2007-08 CY PLAN 254 - Sustainable Communities, UCB 2005, 06 Urban Planning Practice, Columbia University, GSAPP 2006, 07 Science Policy, Columbia University, SIPA, PhD Program 2006, 07 Environmental Justice, Columbia University, GSAPP
2002 Environmental Policy and Planning, U. Penn, Department of City & Regional Planning 2000 Negotiation Seminar (instructor), Harvard Law School
DISSERTATION ADVISEES (completed only) * denotes Chair
2015 *Michael Mendez, UC Berkeley, DCRP, “Climate Change from the Streets: A Community-based Framework for Addressing Local and Global Environmental Health Impacts.” Current Position: Assistant Professor, University San Francisco.
2015 Alissa Bernstein. UCB, Anthropology. “The Making and Mutations of a Beautiful Health Policy in Bolivia.” Current Position: Post-Doc, UCSF.
2015 *Heena Dinesh Shah, UC Berkeley, School of Public Health. “Slum Savings and Health in Nairobi, Kenya.”
2014 Ellen Kersten. UC Berkeley. Environmental Science Policy & Management. “Spatial Triage: Data, Methods, and Opportunities to Advance Health Equity.” Current Position: Post-Doc, UCSF. 2014 R. David Rebanal. UC Berkeley School of Public Health. “Asian-American Health Disparities in
California.” Current Position: Senior Research Scientist, San Francisco State University.
2013 *Miriam Zuk, UC Berkeley, Department of City & Regional Planning. Dissertation: “Health Equity in a New Urbanist Environment: Land Use Planning and Community Capacity Building in Fresno, CA” 2013 *Renee Roy-Elias. UC Berkeley, Department of City & Regional Planning. Dissertation: “Grocery
Stores: Neighborhood Retail or Urban Panacea? A Comparative Analysis of Bayview Hunters Point and West Oakland, California. Current Position: RWJF Build Healthy Communities Network. 2012 Nathan McClintock, UC Berkeley, Geography. Dissertation: “Farming the Margins: A Political
(Agro)Ecology of Vacant Land, Heavy Metals, and Urban Agriculture.” Current Position: Assistant Professor, Portland State University.
2011 Analilia Garcia, UC Berkeley, School of Public Health, 2010. Dissertation: “Youth involvement and outcomes in Community-Based Participatory Research.” Current Position: Assistant Professor, San Jose State University.
2010 Jin Ho Jo, Arizona State University. Dissertation: “Development of Empirical and Modeled Tools to Evaluate Building Integrated Photovoltaics as a Renewable Energy Source and a Carbon Reduction Strategy for the Phoenix, Arizona, Region.”.Current Position: Assistant Professor, Illinois State University.
2010 Joyce Rosenthal, Columbia University. Dissertation: Cool Cities: Climate Change and City Planning. Current Position: Assistant Professor, Harvard University, GSD.
2009 Erika Tate. UC Berkeley, School of Education. Dissertation: “Asthma Education and Community Transformation.” Current Position: Consultant.
2009 Daiju Narita, Columbia University, Earth Institute. Dissertation: “Carbon Capture and Storage.” Current Position: Senior Researcher, The Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2015- Advisor, World Heath Organization, Urban Health Initiative
2015 Advisor, French Society of Environmental Health, Climate Change and Health committee 2014- Editorial Board, Planning Theory & Practice
2013- Paul Davidoff Book Award Committee, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) 2013- Scientific Reviewer, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Dutch Council for Humanities 2012- Scientific Review Committee, International Scientific Union (ICSU), Health & Wellbeing in the
Changing Urban Environment.
2011- Scientific Review Board, European Research Council. 2010- Editorial Board, Journal of Planning Education & Research 2010- Editorial Board, Journal of Urban Health
2012-13 Co-Chair, Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), Health, Risk and Resilience 2010 - Scientific Reviewer, International Society of Urban Health Conference
2010-4 Chair, Health and Safety Track, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP)
2007 Grant Reviewer, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Improving Public Health Practice through Translation Research.
2006 -7 Member, National Academy of Sciences, Citizen Engagement in Public Health Planning Roundtable 2005 - Reviewer, National Science Foundation, Programs in Geography and Regional Science &
Environmental Social and Behavioral Science
2004- Core Instructor, Community Based Participatory Research, Continuing Education Institute, American Public Health Association
2005- Member, American Sociological Association
2004- Member, Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
2002- Member, Community Based Public Health Caucus,American Public Health Association. 2002- Member, International Society of Urban Health
2000 - Member, American Public Health Association
2000 - Member, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
ACADEMIC SERVICE
University of California, Berkeley
2015- Berkeley Food Institute, Faculty Affiliate 2015 Founder, Health Equity Action Lab (HEAL) 2015- Member, UC Bay Area Global Health Seminar
2014-15 Chair, Academic Senate, American Cultures (AMCULT) Committee 2014-15 Member, Committee on Courses of Instruction (COCI)
2014- Member, Residential Faculty Program
2014-15 Member, Search Committee, Director of Residential Education 2013-14 Academic Senate, American Cultures (AMCULT) Committee 2012-15 Co-Director, Global Metropolitan Studies
2012- Global Campus at Richmond Bay, Sustainability Committee 2010-12 Co-Chair, Slum Health Colloquium, Institute International Studies
2010- Hass Institute for Fair and Inclusive Society, Health & Social Inequities Committee 2009-12 Global Metropolitan Studies, Executive Committee
2009-10 Search Committee, Global Metropolitan Studies faculty position 2008- ESPM, Science, Technology & Environment (STE) committee 2008- Energy and Resources Group (ERG), Faculty Affiliate
College of Environmental Design
2014-5 Member, Executive Committee 2009-10 Chair, Executive Committee
2008- Chair, Joint MCP-MPH dual degree program
2010 - Judith Lee Stronach Summer Scholarship Committee DCRP
2012 Chair, Faculty Search Committee, Urban Sustainability 2014-5 Member, MCP committee
2010-12 Chair, Masters in City Planning (MCP) Committee 2008- Chair, Environmental Planning Curriculum Committee School of Public Health
2014- Co-Chair, Richmond Health Initiative
2013- Health & Social Behavior, MPH Admissions Committee 2012- Faculty Committee, UCB Center Global Public Health 2009- Admissions, MPH-MCP Degree Program
2008 - Chair, Lindheim Award Committee
COMMUNITY SERVICE
2015 Advisor, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, Environmental Justice Committee 2013- Advisory Board, HUD Healthy Communities Transformation Initiative
2010- Health Equity Advisor, City Manager, City of Richmond, California
2009- Consultant, California Air Resources Board, Climate Change Policy Health Impact Assessment 2009- Consultant, The California Endowment, Healthy Communities Initiative.
2010-13 Board Member, Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) 2008 Member, Senator Obama, Urban Policy Campaign Committee
2008- Co-founder, San Francisco Bay Area Health Impact Assessment Collaborative 2008- Advisor, People’s Grocery, Oakland, CA
2008-9 Advisor, Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN), Oakland, CA
2007-8 Member, Technical Advisory Group, City of Richmond, CA, Health Element drafting committee 2006- Advisor, Center for Social Inclusion, New York, NY
2006-7 Advisor, South of Market Community Action Network, San Francisco, CA 2005- 8 Consultant, Environmental Justice Solutions, San Francisco, CA
2005- Advisor, Sustainable South Bronx, Bronx, NY
2004-7 Advisor, San Francisco Department of Public Health, Program in Health Equity & Sustainability 2004-7 Advisor, West Harlem Environmental Action, New York, NY
2002-6 Advisor, El Puente de Williamsburg, Community Health Educators, Brooklyn, NY 2002-6 Board Member, NYC Community Health Worker Network
2002-6 Board Member, Just Growth, Portland, OR.
1990-2 Teacher & Mentor, El Puente de Williamsburg High School, Brooklyn, NY
CONFERENCE/ ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS (since 2009 only)
2015. Urban Climate Justice. Society Fracaise Sante Et Environment. Changement Climatique Et Santé. Paris. 24 September.
2015. Urban Health and Climate Change Mitigation. World Health Organization, Geneva. October 9 2015. Making the Invisible Visible, Urban Beyond Measure Conference, Stanford University, May 8. 2015. Richmond’s Health in All Urban Policy, School of Public Health, Community Engaged Research
Symposium, May 7
2015. Environments, Urbanization and Emerging Diseases. Bay Area Global Health Seminar, UC Davis. April 20. 2015. Working Toward Health Equity. Keynote, Touro College Hero’s in Health Equity Awards. April 15. 2015. Slum Sanitation and Women’s Health. Nairobi City Council, Nairobi, Kenya. March 11.
2015. Poverty, Racism and Health. University of Paris, Department of Medical Geography, February 5th. 2014. Beyond Systems Science for Healthy and Equitable Cities. International Council for Science. Health and
Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment: A Systems Analysis Approach. Xiamen, China. 9 December.
2014. Co-producing Slum Upgrading: Lessons from Nairobi, Kenya. African Association of Planning Schools, Cape Town, South Africa. November 18.
2014. Urban Health Equity: An Action Research Agenda. Boston University, Center for Global Health & Development. June 10.
2014. Community Engaged Science & Urban Health Equity. Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford Medical Center. May 27.
2014. Urban Planning and Health Equity in the Global South, International Conference on Urban Health, Manchester, UK, March 5.
2013. Justice Spatiale seminar, University of Paris, Nanterre. October 16-18.
2013. Making Health Equity Planning Work. International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) Conference, Paris, France, September 12.
2013. Healthy City Planning: What we need to learn from the global south? USC, Urban Growth Seminar. March 26.
2013. Planning for Urban Health Equity: Lessons from three continents. University of Victoria, BC, Canada. City Talks Lecture Series. February 28..
2012. Cities, Urbanization and Social Determinants of Health. First International Conference on Social and Ecological Determinants of Health, Salvador, Brazil, August 4.
2012. Evaluating Health Impact Assessments, San Francisco Department of Public Health, July 19.
2012. Integrated Upgrading of Informal Settlements, East African Conference on Informal Settlement Upgrading, Nairobi, Kenya, July 8.
2012. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health and Society Scholars Annual Meeting, Princeton, April 19. 2012. Incorporating Health Equity in City Management. California League of Cities, Keynote, Annual Conference,
Indian Wells, CA, February 2.
2011. Cities and Health Equity: Toward a Global Agenda. Urban Age Conference, Hong Kong, November 16. 2011. Cities, Planning and Health Equity: Integrating Adaptive Management. Keynote, International Society of
Urban Health Conference, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, November 4.
2011. Urbanization, Slums and Health Equity. UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, October 31.
2011. Slum Upgrading and Health Equity in Nairobi, Kenya. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, October 14.
2011. City Planning and Health Equity. Northeastern University, Boston, MA, March 23.
2011. Slum Planning and Health Equity. University of Nairobi, Department of Urban & Regional Planning, June 11.
2010. Planning and multi-dimensional indexes of well-being, State University of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. July 26. 2010. Healthy City Planning. International Union of Health Promotion and Education Conference, Geneva, July 13. 2010. Infrastructure Planning and Health, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya. June 13. 2010. Combining Pedagogy and Research in Place and Health. Portland State University, Portland, OR. May 14. 2010. Urban Health and Federal Place-based policy. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health and Society
Scholars Meeting, Washington, DC, April 29.
2010. Toward the Healthy City. California Center for Civic Partnerships, Healthy Cities Network Annual Meeting, Oakland, April 22nd.
2010. Planning for slum health. University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, January 9.
2009. Pedagogy for healthy and urban planning. Association of collegiate schools of planning Annual meeting, Washington, DC. October 2.
2009. Health in the Global City. Center of Research on Industry and Land Planning, Institute of Geography – University of Paris I Sorbonne, Paris, France, September 18.
2009. Community Based Research with the urban poor. Training with ICDDRB, Bangladesh. September 9. 2009. Indicators for the Healthy City, Contra Costa County Health Services, Policy Link, & The California
Endowment, Richmond, CA, August 21.
2009. Participatory Slum Upgrading, University of Nairobi, Kenya, August 12.
2009. Infrastructure and Housing Plans for Slum upgrading, University of Nairobi, Kenya, August 4.
2009. Urban Health: From Analysis to Solutions. Berkeley Alliance for Global Health, Global Change - Global Health: A Symposium on Urban Health in the 21st Century, May 8.
2009. Toward the Healthy City. Graduate Student Annual Keynote Address, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, March 16.
2009. Health and the City. The Ohio State University, Department of Architecture and Planning, April 29. 2009. Health Impact Assessment Training. Sustainable South Bronx, Bronx, NY. February 26-7.
2009. Global urban health: Toward a research agenda. Health Services Research Symposium, UC Berkeley, February 19.
2009. Urban Governance and health equity. Health and Society Scholars Seminar, UC San Francisco, Medical Center, February 9.
