Public Health, GIS, Spatial Analysis, climate

Dr. Maroko has been a full time faculty member in the Lehman College Health Sciences department and the CUNY School of Public Health since 2010. He also serves as faculty in the Doctoral programs in Public Health and Earth and Environmental Sciences, the latter at the CUNY Graduate Center. He was central in the development of the Public Health Geographic Information Science specialization and is the Associate Director of the Urban GISc Lab at Lehman College. Dr. Maroko’s research interests are in the examination of health disparities, inequities, exposures, accessibility, and environmental justice in a spatial framework. This entails exploration of the spatial variation of – and geographic associations among – the environment (built, natural, and social) and health outcomes.