News — An expert from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is available for interviews around the new CDC report , released today, July 31, 2024.
, PhD, is a in Environmental Challenges in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a transportation planner and a smart growth advocate who has published extensively on walkability, non-motorized transportation, public transit, housing and transportation affordability, public health, life expectancy, upward mobility, and traffic safety.
She is the lead author of the report “,” a research project of the Bloomberg American Health Initiative. She is also the director of the at Johns Hopkins. She has written two books and published more than 40 journal articles on urban form and its impacts on individuals’ economic mobility, walking and physical activity, obesity and associated chronic diseases, emergence of food deserts, traffic safety, air quality, and overall life expectancy.
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