Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Geography and Geographic Information Science
Highlighted Publications
Crawford, M., Flores, F., Kolak, M., Nelson, A. H., & Simmons, M. (2023). Importance of Community Engagement in Data Decision Making. Big Data, 11(2), 75-86. https://doi.org/10.1089/big.2023.29057.rtd
Joudrey, P. J., Kolak, M., Lin, Q., Paykin, S., Anguiano, V., & Wang, E. A. (2022). Assessment of Community-Level Vulnerability and Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder. JAMA network open, 5(4), Article e227028. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.7028
Kolak, M. A., Chen, Y. T., Lin, Q., & Schneider, J. (2021). Social-spatial network structures and community ties of egocentric sex and confidant networks: A Chicago case study. Social Science and Medicine, 291, Article 114462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114462
Kolak, M., Bhatt, J., Park, Y. H., Padrón, N. A., & Molefe, A. (2020). Quantification of Neighborhood-Level Social Determinants of Health in the Continental United States. JAMA network open, 3(1), Article e1919928. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.19928
Kolak, M. (2021). Distilling the Effect of the Great Recession on Food Access in a Segregated City: A Spatial, Quasi-Experimental Approach. Professional Geographer, 73(4), 582-593. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2021.1922296
Recent Publications
Kolak, M., Lia, J., Alavez, J., Kumar, S., Lambert, S., Cox, A., Paykin, S., Curran, W., & Stuhlmacher, M. (2026). Advancing environmental justice technologies & technospaces: A case study of ChiVes, open GIS, and participatory design. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 10, Article 100360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2026.100360
Kolak, M. A., & Moise, I. K. (2026). Preface. Global Perspectives on Health Geography, Part F1534, V.
Kolak, M. A., & Barronville, K. (2026). Re-Rooting the Social Determinants of Health within a Trauma-Informed, Integrated Health Geography. In Global Perspectives on Health Geography (pp. 13-31). (Global Perspectives on Health Geography; Vol. Part F1534). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88463-4_2
Moise, I. K., & Kolak, M. A. (2026). Introducing the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health. In Global Perspectives on Health Geography (pp. 3-9). (Global Perspectives on Health Geography; Vol. Part F1534). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88463-4_1
Chong, B., Baccile, R., Kapadia, A., Gadri, M., Sandella, R., Goffinet, A., Dobrow, S., Klein, J., Kolak, M., & Kupfer, S. S. (2025). Early-stage Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Diagnosis is Inversely Associated with Travel Distance and Travel Time. Pancreas, Publish Ahead of Print. https://doi.org/10.1097/MPA.0000000000002601