Dr. Kevin Mwenda is an Associate Professor of Population Studies (Research) at the Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC) and the Director of the Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4). Dr. Mwenda is also a faculty affiliate at the Data Science Institute (DSI), Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), and the Sociology Department.
Dr. Mwenda’s research focuses on spatial disparities in health outcomes among vulnerable populations around the world, and how these patterns are influenced by various environmental, climatic, and socioeconomic factors. His research interests include designing and applying methods that contextualize space and place in respect to vulnerability outcomes, to better understand human-environment dynamics (e.g. population health, climate and society).
Dr. Mwenda earned his PhD Degree in Geography (Geographic Information Science & Cartography) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has co-authored several publications ranging across multiple disciplines in high-impact journals including: Health & Place, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; International Journal of Health Geographics; Sustainability, among others. He currently serves as a founding Editorial Board Member for the journal Populations.
He teaches GIS/spatial analysis courses at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate curricula in the Sociology Department and received the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching for 2023.
Mwenda, Kevin, Şalap-Ayça, Seda. "Spatial Sampling for Spatial Analysis." The Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge, edited by John P. Wilson, 2025. |
Polnaszek, Brock E., Mwenda, Kevin M., Nelson, Latasha D., Sit, Dorothy K., Lewkowitz, Adam K., Miller, Emily S. "The association between neighborhood deprivation and engagement in mental health care after implementation of the perinatal collaborative care model." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2024. |
Goldstein SP, Mwenda KM, Hoover AW, Shenkle O, Jones RN, Thomas JG. "The Fully Understanding Eating and Lifestyle Behaviors (FUEL) trial: Protocol for a cohort study harnessing digital health tools to phenotype dietary non-adherence behaviors during lifestyle intervention." DIGITAL HEALTH, vol. 10, 2024, pp. 1 - 17. |
López-Carr, David, Pricope, Narcisa G., Mwenda, Kevin M., Daldegan, Gabriel Antunes, Zvoleff, Alex. "A Conceptual Approach towards Improving Monitoring of Living Conditions for Populations Affected by Desertification, Land Degradation, and Drought." Sustainability, vol. 15, no. 12, 2023, pp. 9400. |
David López-Carr, Greta Brablec, Kevin M. Mwenda, Narcisa G. Pricope, Ingrid Teich, Maria Angelica Fernandez, Monica Noon, Gabriel Daldegan, Alex Zvoleff. "A Review of Pilot Country Workshops in Support of UNCCD Strategic Objectives (SO) 1, 2, and 3: A case study testing the usefulness of the datasets and approaches suggested to monitor progress." 2022. |
Audi, Mhd Nour, Mwenda, Kevin M, Wei, Guixing, Lurie, Mark N. "Healthcare accessibility in preconflict Syria: a comparative spatial analysis." BMJ Open, vol. 12, no. 5, 2022, pp. e059210. |
deSouza, Priyanka N., Hammer, Melanie, Anthamatten, Peter, Kinney, Patrick L., Kim, Rockli, Subramanian, S. V., Bell, Michelle L., Mwenda, Kevin M. "Impact of air pollution on stunting among children in Africa." Environmental Health, vol. 21, no. 1, 2022. |
Pricope, Narcisa, Daldegan, Gabriel, Zvoleff, Alex, Mwenda, Kevin, Noon, Monica, Lopez-Carr, David. "Operationalizing an integrative socio-ecological framework in support of global monitoring of land degradation." [], 2022. |
Pricope, Narcisa G., Daldegan, Gabriel A., Zvoleff, Alex, Mwenda, Kevin M., Noon, Monica, Lopez‐Carr, David. "Operationalizing an integrative socio‐ecological framework in support of global monitoring of land degradation." Land Degradation & Development, 2022. |
deSouza, Priyanka N., Dey, Sagnik, Mwenda, Kevin M., Kim, Rockli, Subramanian, S.V., Kinney, Patrick. "Robust relationship between ambient air pollution and infant mortality in India." Science of The Total Environment, 2022, pp. 152755. |
Wen, Qi, Li, Jin, Mwenda, Kevin M., Ervin, Daniel, Chatterjee, Maya, Lopez‐Carr, David. "Coal exploitation and income inequality: Testing the resource curse with econometric analyses of household survey data from northwestern China." Growth and Change, 2021. |
McKenzie, Grant, Mwenda, Kevin. "Identifying regional variation in place visit behavior during a global pandemic." Journal of Spatial Information Science, no. 23, 2021, pp. 95-124. |
Espinosa Dice, Ana Lucia, Bengtson, Angela M, Mwenda, Kevin M, Colvin, Christopher J, Lurie, Mark N. "Quantifying clinic transfers among people living with HIV in the Western Cape, South Africa: a retrospective spatial analysis." BMJ Open, vol. 11, no. 12, 2021, pp. e055712. |
David Lopez Carr, Kevin M. Mwenda, Kerry L. Mapes, Susanne H. Sokolow, Linghai Liu, Narcisa G. Pricope. "Tools4LDN Technical Report on Monitoring Progress Towards UNCCD Strategic Objective 2." 2021. |
Narcisa G. Pricope, Kerry L. Mapes, Kevin M. Mwenda, Susanne H. Sokolow, David Lopez-Carr. "Tools4LDN Technical Report on Monitoring Progress Towards UNCCD Strategic Objective 3." 2021. |
Yang, Qingsheng, You, Xibin, Zhang, Hongxian, Mwenda, Kevin, Wang, Yuandong, Huang, Ying. "A New Method to Predict Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate with Natural Geographical Factors and Location by Case-based Reasoning: A Case Study of China." Chinese Geographical Science, vol. 30, no. 1, 2020, pp. 157-169. |
Bosco, Elliott, Zullo, Andrew R, McConeghy, Kevin W, Moyo, Patience, van Aalst, Robertus, Chit, Ayman, Mwenda, Kevin M, Panozzo, Catherine A, Mor, Vincent, Gravenstein, Stefan. "Geographic Variation in Pneumonia and Influenza in Long-Term Care Facilities: A National Study." Clinical Infectious Diseases, vol. 71, no. 8, 2020, pp. e202-e205. |
Cassels, Susan, Mwenda, Kevin M., Biney, Adriana A. E., Jenness, Samuel M. "Is It the Timing? Short-Term Mobility and Coital Frequency in Agbogbloshie, Ghana." Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2020. |
Mwenda, Kevin, Wei, Guixing, Lei, Juanfang, Grigsby-Toussaint, Diana, Lopez-Sanders, Laura, Vivier, Patrick, White, Michael. "Rhode Island and COVID-19: Tracing the Pandemic." Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4), 2020. |
Li, Jeanne, Mwenda, Kevin, Stanfield, Leslie, Beswick, Richard. "2395. Analysis of Countywide Clostridium difficile Infection using Descriptive Statistics and Geographic Information Systems Mapping." Open Forum Infectious Diseases, vol. 6, no. Supplement_2, 2019, pp. S827-S827. |
Yang, Qingsheng, Zhang Hongxian, Mwenda Kevin M. "County-Scale Destination Migration Attractivity Measurement and Determinants Analysis: A Case Study of Guangdong Province, China." Sustainability, vol. 11, no. 2, 2019, pp. 362. |
Jia, Peng, Yu, Chao, Remais, Justin V., Stein, Alfred, Liu, Yu, Brownson, Ross C., Lakerveld, Jeroen, Wu, Tong, Yang, Lijian, Smith, Melody, Amer, Sherif, Pearce, Jamie, Kestens, Yan, Kwan, Mei-Po, Lai, Shengjie, Xu, Fei, Chen, Xi, Rundle, Andrew, Xiao, Qian, Xue, Hong, Luo, Miyang, Zhao, Li, Cheng, Guo, Yang, Shujuan, Zhou, Xiaolu, Li, Yan, Panter, Jenna, Kingham, Simon, Jones, Andy, Johnson, Blair T., Shi, Xun, Zhang, Lin, Wang, Limin, Wu, Jianguo, Mavoa, Suzanne, Toivonen, Tuuli, Mwenda, Kevin M., Wang, Youfa, Verschuren, W.M. Monique, Vermeulen, Roel, James, Peter. "Spatial Lifecourse Epidemiology Reporting Standards (ISLE-ReSt) statement." Health & Place, 2019, pp. 102243. |
Mwenda, Kevin. M., Phaedon C. Kyriakidis, and David López-Carr. "Quantifying Spatial Uncertainty of Population Estimates: Evidence from three Tanzanian districts." Plurimondi. An International Forum for Research and Debate on Human Settlements, 2017. |
Lopez-Carr, David, Mwenda, Kevin M., Pricope, Narcisa G., Kyriakidis, Phaedon C., Jankowska, Marta M., Weeks, John, Funk, Chris, Husak, Gregory, Michaelsen, Joel. "Climate-Related Child Undernutrition in the Lake Victoria Basin: An Integrated Spatial Analysis of Health Surveys, NDVI, and Precipitation Data." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 9, no. 6, 2016, pp. 2830-2835. |
David López-Carr Kevin M. Mwenda Narcisa G. Pricope Phaedon C. Kyriakidis Marta M. Jankowska John Weeks Chris Funk Gregory Husak Joel Michaelsen. "A spatial analysis of climate-related child malnutrition in the Lake Victoria Basin." 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2015. |
Yang, Qingsheng, Mwenda, Kevin M, Ge, Miao. "Incorporating geographical factors with artificial neural networks to predict reference values of erythrocyte sedimentation rate." International Journal of Health Geographics, vol. 12, no. 1, 2013, pp. 11. |
Shi, Xun, Miller, Stephanie, Mwenda, Kevin, Onda, Akikazu, Rees, Judy, Onega, Tracy, Gui, Jiang, Karagas, Margaret, Demidenko, Eugene, Moeschler, John. "Mapping Disease at an Approximated Individual Level Using Aggregate Data: A Case Study of Mapping New Hampshire Birth Defects." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 10, no. 9, 2013, pp. 4161-4174. |
Sloan, Chantel D., Andrew, Angeline S., Gruber, Joann F., Mwenda, Kevin M., Moore, Jason H., Onega, Tracy, Karagas, Margaret R., Shi, Xun, Duell, Eric J. "Indoor and outdoor air pollution and lung cancer in New Hampshire and Vermont." Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry, vol. 94, no. 3, 2012, pp. 605-615. |
Year | Degree | Institution |
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2018 | PhD | University of California, Santa Barbara |
2014 | MA | University of California, Santa Barbara |
2010 | BA | Dartmouth College |
Name | Title |
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Dow, Patience | Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
Goldstein, Stephanie | Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research) |
Gravenstein, Stefan | David S. Greer Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Director, Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
Grigsby, Diana | Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Epidemiology |
Lopez Sanders, Laura | Stephen Robert Assistant Professor of Sociology |
Lurie, Mark | Professor of Epidemiology |
McGarvey, Stephen | Professor of Epidemiology |
Mor, Vincent | Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
Salap-Ayca, Seda | Assistant Professor of the Practice of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences |
White, Michael | Robert E. Turner Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Population Studies and Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Professor of Population Studies (Research) |
Zullo, Andrew | Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice |
Data Science Institute (DSI)
Department of Sociology, Brown University
Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4)
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), Brown University
American Association of Geographers
Population Association of America
SOC 1340 - Principles and Methods of Geographic Information Systems |
SOC 2612 - Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences |
SOC 2961B - Applications in Geographic Information Systems |