Jason Corburn is an associate professor at UC Berkeley who directs the Institute of Urban and Regional Development and the Centre for Global Healthy Cities. His research focuses on links between environmental health and social justice in cities. He works to build partnerships between residents, scientists, and decision-makers to generate policy solutions that improve urban environments and residents' well-being, especially the poor and people of color. He has won several awards for his work, including the United Nations Association Global Citizenship Award.

1. JASON
CORBURN,PhD
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF CITY & REGIONAL
PLANNING
SAHIL PATEL – AP14
DARSH SHAH – AP1420

2. BIOGRAPHY
• Jason Corburn is an associate professor in the department of city and regional
planning and school of public health.
• He directs the institute of urban and regional development and the centre for
global healthy cities at UC Berkeley.
• He also coordinates the joint master of city planning (MCP) and master of public
health (MPH) degree program at UC Berkeley.
• His research focuses on the links between environmental health and social justice in
cities, notions of expertise in science-based policy making, and the role of local
knowledge in addressing environmental and public health problems

3. • He practices and works to build partnerships between urban residents, professional
scientists and decision-makers in order to collaboratively generate policy and
planning solutions that improve the qualities of cities and the well-being of
residents, particularly the poor and people of color.
• United nations association global citizenship award, the Paul Davidoff book award
for street science, a health policy investigator award from the Robert Wood Johnson
foundation and the environmental leadership program fellowship.
• These are the awards he won.

4. SPECIALIZATIONS
• Environmental policy & planning
• Environmental health
• Urban environmental justice
• Social & spatial epidemiology
• Health impact assessment
• Science & technology studies
• Social theory
• Environmental dispute resolution

5. HIS PUBLICATION
Street Science: Local
Knowledge & Environmental
Health Justice, 2005.
Toward the Healthy City:
People, Places and the
Politics of Urban Planning,
2009
Healthy City Planning: From
Neighbourhood to National
Health Equity, 2013

6.  Here are some of the key partners of his research and policy work,
he is currently working with all of these organizations in some
capacity.
• Muungano support trust, Nairobi, Kenya
• Pamoja trust, Nairobi, Kenya
• Urban health resource centre, India
• UN HABITAT partner university initiative
• Centro de Promoção da Saúde, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Communities for an better environment, California
• San Francisco department o public health, Programme of healthy equity and sustainability
• Centre od social inclusion, New York City
• Slum Dwellers International
• University of Paris, East Laboratoier Escape Sante Et Territories
• Institute of social medicine, State university of Rio de Janerio, Brazil
• Centre of Urban research and innovations university of Nairobi

7. SOURCE
• http://www.jasoncorburn.com/