Jason
Corburn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional
Planning and a member of the Global Metropolitan Studies initiative at
the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the
links between environmental health and social justice in cities, notions
of expertise in science-based policy making, and the role of local
knowledge in addressing environmental and public health problems.
Professor Corburn is currently investigating the institutional,
political and technical barriers to reconnecting city planning and
public health with the aim of addressing urban inequities around the
world. Jason has received major support for his work from the National
Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and
Society Scholars program, and the US Environmental Protection Agency. He
is a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Workgroup on Citizen
Engagement in Health Emergency Planning and a recipient of the National
Environmental Leadership Program Award. Professor Corburn was previously
a professor of urban environmental planning and policy at Columbia
University and the co-director of the Center for Occupational and
Environmental Health at Hunter College, City University of New York.
Jason’s most recent book, Street Science: Community Knowledge and
Environmental Health Justice, was published by The MIT Press in 2005. He
received both a Masters in City Planning (1996) and a PhD in Urban
Environmental Planning (2002) from MIT.
GMS Courses (draft
description)
Sustainable Cities
This course explores the environmental, human health and political
dimensions of what makes cities sustainable. Combing concepts, readings
and case studies from such diverse fields as city planning, urban
sociology, public health, public policy and science and technology
studies (STS), the course examines the multiple dimensions of the
‘healthy city.’ The course also takes a comparative perspective both
domestically and internationally, including investigating the
relationships between sustainable neighborhoods, cities, and their
larger metropolitan regions.
Urban Environmental
Health
This is a seminar course that engages students in the theories, research
designs, and policy analyses aimed at understanding how the natural,
built and social environments influence the well-being of urban
residents.
Jason
Corburn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of City and Regional
Planning and a member of the Global Metropolitan Studies initiative at
the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the
links between environmental health and social justice in cities, notions
of expertise in science-based policy making, and the role of local
knowledge in addressing environmental and public health problems.
Professor Corburn is currently investigating the institutional,
political and technical barriers to reconnecting city planning and
public health with the aim of addressing urban inequities around the
world. Jason has received major support for his work from the National
Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and
Society Scholars program, and the US Environmental Protection Agency. He
is a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Workgroup on Citizen
Engagement in Health Emergency Planning and a recipient of the National
Environmental Leadership Program Award. Professor Corburn was previously
a professor of urban environmental planning and policy at Columbia
University and the co-director of the Center for Occupational and
Environmental Health at Hunter College, City University of New York.
Jason’s most recent book, Street Science: Community Knowledge and
Environmental Health Justice, was published by The MIT Press in 2005. He
received both a Masters in City Planning (1996) and a PhD in Urban
Environmental Planning (2002) from MIT.