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Dr. Deborah Balk is Professor of Public Affairs in the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs at Baruch College and at the CUNY Graduate Center (in the Economics, and Sociology Programs) and Associate Director of the CUNY Institute of Demographic Research. She was a 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Using a spatial demographic lens, she studies demographic and health outcomes (such as urbanization, mortality, obesity, and malnutrition) and poverty and vulnerability.
She is pioneer in the spatial modelling of urbanization, having been the lead developer of the Global Rural Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP) and co-developer of the first global Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) data sets.
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