Discipline(s):
Epidemiology, Biostatistics
Area(s) of Expertise:
Environmental Health Disparities, Built Environment, Environmental Justice Research and Science, Innovative Community-Based Participatory Research, Action-Oriented Research, Use of Geographic Information Systems For Human Exposure Assessment, Air Pollution, Environmental Epidemiology
E-Mail:
sacobyw@umich.edu
Background:
Sacoby Wilson is an environmental health researcher who will complete his doctoral degree in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-School of Public Health in June 2005. His dissertation research focuses on environmental monitoring and spatiotemporal mapping and estimation of atmospheric ammonia levels at human receptor locations in close proximity to concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in Eastern North Carolina. He also completed his M.S. degree in the department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2000. His thesis examined geographical inequities in the distribution of industrial hog production in Mississippi. He received funding for his graduate work from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and two Environmental Protection Agency STAR Fellowships (1998 and 2000). He has published his work in Environmental Health Perspectives and presented several papers at the annual American Public Health Association Conference (2001, 2003, and 2004). Wilson is a member of the Environment Section of the American Public Health Association, Society for Risk Analysis, Association of American Geographers, and National Environmental Health Association. He is also currently a fellow with the Environmental Leadership Program. Sacoby received a B.S. degree in Biology/Ecotoxicology from Alabama A&M University in 1998.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Sacoby Wilson's available publications in PubMed.
