Michael D. Garber
As a social and environmental epidemiologist, I study how urban design and policy affect population health and climate resilience. I have led research
investigating how bike infrastructure, like paved paths and protected bike lanes, 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 health equity.
I have methodological expertise in
quasi-experimental causal-inference methods, like the generalized synthetic control;
health-impact assessment;
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 articles in journals such as Epidemiology and the Journal of Transport & Health. In 2022, I received the Rothman Epidemiology Prize.
Recent publications
Cool
routes: Assessing how green space and paved paths modify heat’s effects
on urban bicycling
Michael Garber, David Rojas-Rueda, Paquito
Bernard, Tarik Benmarhnia.
Journal of Transport &
Health. 2025
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
Greening
urban areas in line with population density and ecological zone can
reduce premature mortality
Michael Garber, Tarik Benmarhnia,
Weiqi Zhou, Pierpaolo Mudu, David
Rojas-Rueda.
Communications Earth &
Environment. 2024
Contact and profiles
Please feel free to reach out.
email: mdgarber@ucsd.edu
Copyright © 2025 Michael D. Garber