Michael D. Garber

As a social and environmental epidemiologist, I study how places can be designed and managed to support population health and climate resilience. I have led research

investigating how bicycling infrastructure affects bicycling and bicycling safety,
estimating health impacts of urban green space locally and globally, and
describing how parking policy may affect population health and equity.

I have methodological expertise in

policy evaluation and quasi-experimental methods,
health-impact assessment,
the validity of active-mobility data generated by smartphones,
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.

Recent publications

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

Contact and profiles

email: mdgarber@ucsd.edu

Google Scholar profile

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Michael-Garber

ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-0122-5634

GitHub: https://github.com/michaeldgarber

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeldgarber/