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
Pho, M. T., Prusaczyk, B., Almirol, E., Fletcher, S., Nicholson, W., Ezell, J. M., Walters, S. M., Augustine, E., Bolinski, R. R., Bresett, J., Miller, K., Vanham, B., Schneider, J. A., Kolak, M. A., Friedman, S. R., Ouellet, L. J., Salisbury-Afshar, E., Lee, K., Tilmon, S., ... Jenkins, W. D. (2026). Implementation Evaluation of a Multicomponent Intervention to Address the Infectious Disease and Overdose Syndemic Among People Who Use Drugs in Rural Settings. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000002413