Juliana Maantay

Team Lead

Juliana Maantay is a Professor in the EEGS Department at Lehman College and the founder and Director of the Geographic Information Science (GISc) Program. As a New York City native she has had a life-long interest in the urban environment, including urban culture, history, and the built environment, and a passion for social justice issues. Her research focuses on the spatial analysis of environmental health justice; land use and health impacts; urban hazards and risk assessment; and community-based participatory planning. Recently she received a Fulbright Distinguished Chair award to study health and the built environment at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow, Scotland. Dr. Maantay has published extensively on her research, as well as written an internationally-used textbook, “GIS for the Urban Environment.” She is a Research Scientist with the NOAA-CREST Center, where she is spearheading work on the public health impacts of climate change. She directs the Urban GISc Lab at Lehman, where other recent research includes the relationship between air pollution and respiratory and cardiovascular disease; diabetes/obesity and location of active recreational spaces and healthy food choices; urban agriculture and health; segregation, disease, and health inequities; new dasymetric methods of population mapping; and geovisualization of health data.