Merlin Chowkwanyun is the Donald Gemson Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University. He is the author of All Health Politics is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health and is now working on a book, Who Dies?,
to be published by W.W. Norton, which re-assesses how to think about
the non-biomedical determinants of health. He is also the Principal
Investigator on ToxicDocs.org, an NSF-funded repository that uses novel
data science methods to make available millions of once-secret documents
on industrial poisons. He currently serves on an Expert Advisory
Committee for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on structural
racism.
