Kevin Mwenda joined the faculty at Brown Univeristy in 2018 as assistant professor of population studies (research) at the Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC) and associate director of the Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) initiative. Mwenda’s research focuses on changing spatial patterns of 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 explore, analyze and visualize spatial patterns within health data, to better understand human-environment dynamics (e.g. population health, climate and society), and the role humans play at the nexus among these. He earned his PhD Degree in Geography (Geographic Information Science & Cartography) from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Mwenda has co-authored several publications ranging across multiple disciplines, including the 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.
