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 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
policy evaluation and quasi-experimental methods,
health-impact assessment,
the valid use of smartphone-generated active-transportation data in research,
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
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
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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