Primary Teaching Areas

Environmental Health; Geographic Information Science; Geographies of Health; Spatial Analysis and Environmental Modeling; Research Methods; Environmental Planning and Policy

Selected Publications

• Maantay, J.A., and Becker, S., eds., 2012. The Health Impacts of Global Climate Change: A Geographic Perspective, Journal of Applied Geography, special issue.
• Maroko, A.R., Maantay, J.A., and Grady, K., 2011.  Using Geovisualization and Geostatistics to Explore Respiratory Disease and Environmental Health Justice in New York City, in Maantay, J.A., and McLafferty, S., eds., Geospatial Analysis for Environmental Health, Springer-Verlag, Chapter 2, pp. 39-66.
• Chakraborty, J., and Maantay, J.A., 2011. Proximity Analysis for Exposure Assessment in Environmental Health Justice Research, in Maantay, J.A., and McLafferty, S., eds., Geospatial Analysis for Environmental Health, Springer-Verlag, Chapter 5, pp. 111-138.
• Chakraborty, J., and Maantay, J.A., 2011.  Disproportionate Proximity to Environmental Health Hazards: Methods, Models, and Measurement.  American Journal of Public Health, 101 (S1): S27-S36.
• Brender, J., Maantay, J.A., Chakraborty, J., 2011. Residential Proximity to Environmental Hazards and Adverse Health Outcomes. American Journal of Public Health, . 101 (S1):
• Maantay, J.A., and Becker, S., 2011. The Health Impacts of Global Climate Change: A Geographic Perspective, Journal of Applied Geography,33: 1
• Maantay, J.A., and McLafferty, S., eds., 2011. Geospatial Analysis for Environmental Health, Springer-Verlag, 500+ pages.
• Miyake, K., Maroko, A.R., Maantay, J.A., Grady, K., Arno, P., 2010. Not Just A Walk in the Park: methodological improvements for determining environmental justice implications of park access in NYC. Cities and the Environment, 3(1):article 8 (17 pages).
• Weiss, R., Maantay, J.A., Fahs, M., 2010.  Promoting Active Urban Aging: A Measurement Approach to Neighborhood Walkability for Older Adults. Cities and the Environment, 3(1):article 12 (17 pages).
• Maantay, J.A., Maroko, A.R., and Culp, G., 2009. Using Geographic Information Science to Estimate Vulnerable Urban Populations for Flood Hazard and Risk Assessment in New York City, in Showalter, P., and Lu, Y. eds., Geotechnical Contributions to Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis, Chapter 5, pp. 71-97, Springer-Verlag.
• Maantay, J. A., Maroko, A.R., Calicea, C., and Strelnick, A. H., 2009.  Geographic Information Systems, Environmental Justice, and Health Disparities:  The Need for An Interdisciplinary Approach to Study Asthma and Air Pollution in the Bronx, New York, in Freudenberg, N., Saegert, S., and Klitzman, S., eds., Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice, Chapter 5, pp. 93-126. Jossey Bass.
• Maantay, J. A., Maroko, A.R., 2009. Asthma and air pollution in the Bronx: Using the Cadastral-based Expert Dasymetric System (CEDS) to improve population mapping and understanding the spatiality of disease in urban areas.  Journal of Urban Health (Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine), 86(3): 353-354.
• Maantay, J.A., Tu, J., Maroko, A., 2009. Loose-coupling an Air Dispersion Model and a Geographic Information System (GIS) for Studying Air Pollution and Asthma in the Bronx, New York City. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 19(1):59-79.
• Maroko, A.R., Maantay, J.A., Sohler, N.L., Grady, K., Arno, P., 2009. The complexities of measuring access to parks and physical activity sites in New York City: a quantitative and qualitative approach. International Journal of Health Geographics, 8(34):1-23.
• Bernstein, S.L., Cabral, L., Maantay, J.A., Peprah, D., Lounsbury, D., Maroko, A.R., Murphy, M., Shelley, D., 2009.  Disparities in Access to Nicotine Replacement Products in New York City Pharmacies. American Journal of Public Health, 99 (9):1699-1704.
• Maantay, J.A., Maroko, A.R., 2008. Mapping urban risk: Flood hazards, race, & environmental justice in New York. Applied Geography, 29 (1):111-124.

Education

• B.Sc. Environmental Analysis and Design - Cornell University
• M.U.P. Urban Environmental Planning - New York University
• M.A. Environmental Geography/GISx - Hunter College, CUNY
• M.Phil. Environmental Geography - Rutgers Univeristy
• Ph.D. Environmental Geography - Rutgers University