As an epidemiologist, I study how places can be designed and managed to support population health and climate resilience. I have a particular interest in policies that may reduce the inequitable population-health consequences of car-dependent environments and support the safety and appeal of active transportation.
I have methodological expertise in policy evaluation, health-impact assessment, the design of case-control studies, and spatial data science using R.
I earned my MPH and PhD in Epidemiology from Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, and I am currently a post-doctoral researcher with UC San Diego. I have authored 25 peer-reviewed journal articles, including 13 as lead author. In 2022, I received the Rothman Epidemiology Prize for our article published in Epidemiology.
In recent work, my colleagues and I wrote about pathways linking parking with public health and how epidemiology can inform urban-health understanding and action:
Parking
and Public Health
Michael Garber, Tarik Benmarhnia, Jacob Mason,
Emily Morales-Zamora, David Rojas-Rueda.
Current
Environmental Health Reports. 2025
The epidemiologic
case for urban health: conceptualizing and measuring the magnitude of
challenges and potential benefits
Michael Garber, Tarik
Benmarhnia, Audrey de Nazelle, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, David
Rojas-Rueda.
F1000 Research. 2024
email: mdgarber@ucsd.edu
Google Scholar profile
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Garber
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0122-5634
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