Biography
Dr. Sacoby Wilson is a professor with the Department of Global Environmental and Occupational Health (GEOH)(formerly known as the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health), School of Public Health, University of Maryland-College Park. He has 25 years of experience as an environmental health scientist in the areas of exposure science, environmental justice, environmental health disparities, community-engaged research including community-based participatory research (CBPR), community science, and community-owned and managed research (COMR), and air quality studies including building hyperlocal air quality monitoring networks, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) including developing environmental justice screening and mapping (EJSM) tools, built environment, climate change, industrial animal production, climate change, community resiliency, and sustainability. He works primarily in partnership with community-based organizations to study and address environmental justice and health issues and translate research into action.