The HEAT Lab is a multidisciplinary team with extensive experience conceptualizing, designing, and conducting community-engaged, mixed-methods research and disseminating results as evidence for action.
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Director
Kevin Lanza, PhD
Assistant Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences and Epidemiology
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, Austin Campus
Team Members
Baojiang Chen, PhD
Professor, Biostatistics and Data Science
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, Austin Campus
Julia M. Gohlke, PhD
Professor, Population Health Sciences
Virginia Tech
Tyson Murray, MS
PhD Student, Epidemiology
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, Austin Campus
Patricia Mwangi, PhD
Lecturer, Spatial and Environmental Planning
Kenyatta University
Fikile Nxumalo, PhD
Associate Professor, Curriculum, Teaching & Learning
University of Toronto
Perry E. Sheffield, MD, MPH
Professor, Environmental Medicine
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Past Team Members
Brian Call
MPH Student, Customized
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
Sierra Ehlers
AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America)
City of Austin
Léa Feuerbacher
MPH Student, Epidemiology
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
Tara Hazarika
MPH Student, Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
Jessica Jones
Master of Public Affairs Student
The University of Texas at Austin
Elena Luna
PhD Student, Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
Neliswa Mkhatshwa
PhD Student, Geography, Archeology and Environmental Studies
University of the Witwatersrand
Kimberley Morgan
MPH Student, Health Promotion & Behavioral Sciences
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health
Alexis Phelps
MPH Student, Customized
UTHealth Houston School of Public Health