Sacoby Wilson, PhD
Professor, the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health (MIAEH) and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public HealthAbout
Biography
Dr. Wilson is an environmental health scientist who works in community-university partnerships, crowd science, and citizen science on environmental health and justice issues. He is director of the Community Engagement, Environmental Justice, and Health (CEEJH) lab which provides technical assistance, consultation, and research support to communities with environmental justice and health issues in Maryland, the Washington, DC region, and across the country. He is a PI on a project to build geospatial tools for environmental justice, park equity, and climate equity; a PI of a project to provide outreach on environmental public health issues in the state of Maryland; Co-I on a project to assess environmental justice issues associated with stormwater management in the Washington, DC region; and a Co-I on a project to assess impacts of disasters and flooding risk on susceptible populations in environmental justice communities. He is currently a member of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), on the board of the Citizen Science Association, and Editor in Chief of Environmental Justice.
Education & Training
- PhD
- University of North Carolina School of Public Health (2020)