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), E227028. Article e227028. Advance online publication. 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
Flanagan Balawajder, E., Ducharme, L., Taylor, B. G., Lamuda, P. A., Kolak, M., Friedmann, P. D., Pollack, H. A., & Schneider, J. A. (2025). Barriers to Universal Availability of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in US Jails. JAMA network open, 8(4), Article e255340. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.5340
Aalsma, M. C., Bell, L. A., Schwartz, K., Ouyang, F., Kolak, M., Monahan, P. O., Mermelstein, S. P., Carson, I., Hulvershorn, L. A., & Adams, Z. W. (2024). Clinician Willingness to Prescribe Medications for Opioid Use Disorder to Adolescents in Indiana. JAMA network open, 7(9), e2435416. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.35416
Balawajder, E. F., Ducharme, L., Taylor, B. G., Lamuda, P. A., Kolak, M., Friedmann, P. D., Pollack, H. A., & Schneider, J. A. (2024). Factors Associated with the Availability of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in US Jails. JAMA network open, 7(9), e2434704. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.34704
Scussiatto, H. O., Kim, S., Kolak, M. A., Nocon, C. C., Pinto, J. M., & Bhayani, M. K. (2024). Oral cancer incidence rate is associated with access to dental care: City and statewide analyses. Head and Neck, 46(11), 2754-2761. https://doi.org/10.1002/hed.27801
Tatara, E., Lin, Q., Ozik, J., Kolak, M., Collier, N., Halpern, D., Anselin, L., Dahari, H., Boodram, B., & Schneider, J. (2024). Spatial inequities in access to medications for treatment of opioid use disorder highlight scarcity of methadone providers under counterfactual scenarios. PLoS computational biology, 20(7 JULY), Article e1012307. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012307