Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Geography and Geographic Information Science
Highlighted Publications
Tempalski, B., Williams, L. D., Kolak, M., Ompad, D. C., Koschinsky, J., & McLafferty, S. L. (2022). Conceptualizing the Socio-Built Environment: An Expanded Theoretical Framework to Promote a Better Understanding of Risk for Nonmedical Opioid Overdose Outcomes in Urban and Non-Urban Settings. Journal of Urban Health, 99(4), 701-716. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-022-00645-3
Joudrey, P. J., Kolak, M., Lin, Q., Paykin, S., Anguiano, V., & Wang, E. A. (Accepted/In press). Assessment of Community-Level Vulnerability and Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder. JAMA network open, 5(4), 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
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
Garg, G., Tedla, Y. G., Ghosh, A. S., Mohottige, D., Kolak, M., Wolf, M., & Kho, A. (2023). Supermarket Proximity and Risk of Hypertension, Diabetes, and CKD: A Retrospective Cohort Study. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 81(2), 168-178. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.ajkd.2022.07.008
Lin, Q., Aguilera, J. A. R., Williams, L. D., Mackesy-Amiti, M. E., Latkin, C., Pineros, J., Kolak, M., & Boodram, B. (2023). Social-spatial network structures among young urban and suburban persons who inject drugs in a large metropolitan area. International Journal of Drug Policy, 122, Article 104217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2023.104217
Williams, L. D., Kolak, M., Villanueva, C., Ompad, D. C., & Tempalski, B. (2023). Creation and Validation of a New Socio-built Environment Index Measure of Opioid Overdose Risk for Use in Both Non-urban and Urban Settings. Journal of Urban Health, 100(5), 1048-1061. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-023-00754-7
Frank, K. A., Lin, Q., Maroulis, S., Mueller, A. S., Xu, R., Rosenberg, J. M., Hayter, C. S., Mahmoud, R. A., Kolak, M., Dietz, T., & Zhang, L. (2022). Response to “three comments on the RIR method”. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 146, 124-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2022.01.020