PUBLICATIONS

Books

Featured

Cities For Life

(Island Press, 2021)

Slum Health

(UC Press, 2016)

Healthy Cities

(Routledge, 2015)

Healthy City Planning

(Routledge, 2013)

Toward the Healthy City

(MIT Press, 2009)

Street Science

(MIT Press, 2005)

Toward the Healthy City

(Tongji University Press, 2019)

Select Refereed Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Reports

Corburn, J., Griffin, J. et al., 2023. Co-creating places for urban health & healing: the case of Pogo Park. Cities and Health.

Gatzweiler, F.W., Jayasinghe, S., Siri, J.G., Corburn, J. 2023. Towards a New Urban Health Science. Urban Science.

Corburn, J. et al 2023. The practices of urban health equity: a call for greater humility. Cities & Health, 7:6, 903-906

Corburn, J. 2023. Urban Healing: Recovering from Trauma. In, Wheeler, Stephen M. (ed). The Sustainable Urban Development Reader, 4th edition, p.288-291

Corburn, J., Njoroge, P., Weru, J., & Musya, M. 2022 Urban Climate Justice, Human Health, and Citizen Science in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements. Urban Science.

Corburn, J., Boggan, D., Muttaqi, K., & Vaughn, S. 2022. Preventing Urban Firearm Homicides during COVID-19: Preliminary Results from Three Cities with the Advance Peace Program. Journal Urban Health.

Ouma, S., Corburn, J., & Weru, J. 2022. Property Rights, Public Health, and Planning for Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya. Journal of Urban Affairs.

Corburn, J. 2022. Water and sanitation for all: Citizen science, health equity, and urban climate justice. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science.

Corburn, J., Nidam, Y & Fukutome-Lopez, A. 2022. The Art and Science of Urban Gun Violence Reduction: Evidence from the Advance Peace Program in Sacramento, California. Urban Science.

Corburn, J. Perez-Jaramillo, J. & Martinez-Herrera, E. 2022. Understanding the transformation of Medellín, Colombia into a Healthy, Safe, and More Equitable City. in Libertun de Duren, N. R. ed., Inclusive Cities: Healthy Cities for All. Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC.

Corburn, J., Asari, M.R. & Kirschenbaum, J. 2021. Community Mapping and Digital Technology: Tools for Organizers. in Minkler, M. & Wakimoto, P. (eds). Community Organizing and Community Building For Health and Social Equity. Rutgers University Press.

Corburn, J. 2021. Healing Cities: Toward Urban Climate Justice & Slum Health. Buildings and Cities Journal, 22 October.

Corburn, J. 2021. Health in All Policies: Urban Development, Health, and Health Equity. In: Kickbusch, I., Ganten, D., Moeti, M. (eds) Handbook of Global Health. Springer, Cham.

Corburn J, Boggan D, Muttaqi K, et al. 2021. Advancing Urban Peace: Preventing Gun Violence and Healing Traumatized Youth. Youth Justice.

Corburn, J., Boggan, D., Muttaqi, K. et al. 2021. A healing-centered approach to preventing urban gun violence: The Advance Peace Model. Humanities & Social Science Communications.

Corburn, J, Boggan, D. & Muttaqi, K. 2021. Urban Safety, Community Healing & Gun Violence Reduction: The Advance Peace Model. Urban Transformations.

Advance Peace Stockton Evaluation Report 2021

January 2021. I am the director of evaluation research and lead author of the report, Advance Peace Stockton, 2018-20 Evaluation Report, also published with the Center for Global Healthy Cities at UC Berkeley.

Gatzweiler, F., Fu,B., Rozenblat, C., Corburn, J., et al. 2020. COVID-19 reveals the systemic nature of urban health globally. Cities & Health.

Nardone, A., Chiang, J. & Corburn, J. 2020. Historic Redlining and Urban Health in Nine US Cities. Environmental Justice.

Slum Health: Arresting COVID-19 and Improving Well-Being in Urban Informal Settlements

Journal of Urban Health. DOI: 10.1007/s11524-020-00438-6

Published: April 24, 2020

Disability, Urban Health Equity, and the Coronavirus Pandemic: Promoting Cities for All

Journal of Urban Health. DOI: 10.1007/s11524-020-00437-7

Published April 23, 2020

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Struggles to Remain in Kigali’s “unplanned” settlements: the case of Bannyahe

Environment & Urbanization. DOI: 10.1177/0956247819886229

Published: November, 2019

June 2019. I was the lead author of a Rapid Health Impact Assessment of the Mukuru Informal Settlement in Nairobi, highlighting environmental injustices and climate change vulnerabilities facing Nairobi slum dwellers. This report helped designate Mukuru a Special Planning Area (SPA) by Nairobi County, and initiated a community-driven planning process to upgrade the settlement. This report was developed in partnership with Shack Dwellers International - Kenya & Muungano wa Wanavijiji.

The transformation of Medellín into a ‘City for Life’: Insights for healthy cities

Cities & Health. DOI: 10.1080/23748834.2019.1592735

Published: April, 2019

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Urban Health Education: Global Challenges and Opportunities

Journal of Urban Health. 96: 510

Published: May, 2019

December 2018. I led a study of the Health Impacts of Closing a Community Hospital. This Rapid Health Impact Assessment focused on the health equity impacts from closing Alta Bates hospital in Berkeley, California. We found that the closure may have significant impacts on the well-being of the region, especially the poor and people of color in the areas of birthing, emergency department access and disaster response. See press coverage:

December 2018. NPR.

December 2018. Berkeleyside

July 2019. US News & World Report

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Promoting Health and Health Equity in Low-Income Urban Settings.
Chapter 6 in Urbanization and Slums: Infectious Diseases in the Built Environment: Proceedings of a Workshop

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Published: 2018