Director of the Center for Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health (CEEJH)
University of Maryland-College Park
Dr. Sacoby Wilson is a professor with the Department of Global Environmental and Occupational Health (GEOH)(formerly known as the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health), School of Public Health, University of Maryland-College Park. He has 25 years of experience as an environmental health scientist in the areas of exposure science, environmental justice, environmental health disparities, community-engaged research including community-based participatory research (CBPR), community science, and community-owned and managed research (COMR), and air quality studies including building hyperlocal air quality monitoring networks, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) including developing environmental justice screening and mapping (EJSM) tools, built environment, climate change, industrial animal production, climate change, community resiliency, and sustainability. He works primarily in partnership with community-based organizations to study and address environmental justice and health issues and translate research into action.
Dr. Wilson is the Director of the Center for Community Engagement, Environmental Justice and Health (CEEJH). He also directs the Mid-Atlantic Climate Action Hub (MATCH) funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Waverly Street Foundation; co-directs the US EPA Region III Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center (TCTAC), and directs the Mid-Atlantic Environmental Justice Fund, the region’s first large scale participatory fund for providing assistance to frontline and fenceline communities experiencing environmental and climate justice issues. CEEJH is focused on providing technical assistance and research support to communities fighting against environmental injustice and environmental health disparities in the DMV region and across the nation through inpowerment and liberation science.
Dr. Wilson has been very active professionally to advance environmental justice science, advocacy, and policy. He is currently on the US EPA’s Science Advisory Board, the Fifth National Climate Assessment (Air Quality Team), a member of the National Academy of Science's Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (BEST), and is Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Justice. He is a member of the Commission on Environmental Justice and Sustainable Communities for the state of Maryland, and a former member of the Climate and Environment subcommittee for Governor Wes Moore’s Transition Team. In addition, he is a former member of the US EPA's National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) including founding co-chair of its Justice40 and Finances workgroup, a SAB liaison member of NEJAC’s cumulative impacts workgroup, a member of the Kresge Foundation’s Climate Change and Health Equity (CCHE) program advisory board, a former board member of the Citizen Science Association and Community Campus Partnerships for Health, a past Chair of the APHA Environment Section, a former member of Board of Scientific Counselors for the CDC NCEH/ATSDR, and former Chair of the Alpha Goes Green Initiative, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He is also a senior fellow in the Environmental Leadership Program.
Plenary: Environmental Justice, Technology, and Health Equity: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions
Friday, September 20, 2024
11:30 AM – 12:45 PM CT