Marynia A Kolak
Biographic Data
| ID | 2068757 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marynia A Kolak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marynia A |
| FAMILY NAME | Kolak |
| SIGNATURE | KOLAK M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6070-9167 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Measuring differential exposure, susceptibility, & adaptability as dimensions of vulnerability for U.S. counties across the Pandemic
Geography of the Opioid Crisis
The opioid crisis is a multifaceted, global phenomenon with highly localized, regionalized contexts. While emergent across multiple nations, within the United States and Canada it has reached epidemic proportions, influenced by increased availability of opiates and opioid analgesics as well as limited, varying access to health services and appropriate treatment. Geographic variation of opioid outcomes are associated with social, economic, politic…
Place and the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health
This open access contributed volume is the first to address Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) from a place-based perspective with a transdisciplinary, global outlook. In this open access book, experts from geography, public health, urban planning, sociology, architecture, and more respond to growing calls for action on SDoH to improve health outcomes and promote health equity. Through theoretical considerations and case studies, the book explo…
Advancing environmental justice technologies & technospaces
Environmental Justice (EJ) technologies may be further fortified and refined when connected directly with the communities impacted by environmental injustices. • Grounding EJ technology work in explicit, equity-centered framings remains crucial to advance healthier communities by considering the content of data, how decisions were generated, as well as how resources will be distributed. • When viewed as a technospace, the process of developing an…
Innovations in mapping health & structural drivers of disease & well-being
1. In this special issue on Mapping Health, we highlight how researchers have visualized health events, interactions, and services, as well as the complex, multidimensional factors driving health d
Dimensions of uncertainty
COVID-19 surveillance across the U.S. is essential to tracking and mitigating the pandemic, but data representing cases and deaths may be impacted by attribute, spatial, and temporal uncertainties. COVID-19 case and death data are essential to understanding the pandemic and serve as key inputs for prediction models that inform policy-decisions; consistent information across datasets is critical to ensuring coherent findings. We implement an explo…
Social-spatial network structures among young urban and suburban persons who inject drugs in a large metropolitan area
Distinct residential groups exhibit varying patterns of network interaction, travel behaviors, and geographical contexts related to their risk behaviors. Nonetheless, these groups share common concentrated risk activity spaces in a large outdoor urban drug market area, underscoring the significance of accounting for risk spaces and social networks in addressing syndemics within PWID populations
Creation and Validation of a New Socio-built Environment Index Measure of Opioid Overdose Risk for Use in Both Non-urban and Urban Settings
Conceptualizing the Socio-Built Environment
Individual, interpersonal, and neighborhood measures associated with opioid use stigma
Despite growing awareness of opioid use disorder (OUD), fatal overdoses and downstream health conditions (e.g., hepatitis C and HIV) continue to rise in some populations. Various interrelated structural forces, together with social and economic determinants, contribute to this ongoing crisis; among these, access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and stigma towards people with OUD remain understudied. We combined data on methadone, bup…
Distilling the Effect of the Great Recession on Food Access in a Segregated City
The Great Recession greatly exacerbated income inequality and might have also magnified unequal access to healthy food in the United States. There is a growing need to examine small-area effects of the Great Recession, especially among minority populations who were disproportionately targeted for predatory loans and experienced higher rates of foreclosure. To explore how the Great Recession interacted with a foodscape locally, a counterfactual qu…
A Vulnerability Assessment for a Future HIV Outbreak Associated With Injection Drug Use in Illinois, 2017–2018
The current opioid crisis and the increase in injection drug use (IDU) have led to outbreaks of HIV in communities across the country. These outbreaks have prompted country and statewide examination into identifying factors to determine areas at risk of a future HIV outbreak. Based on methodology used in a prior nationwide county-level analysis by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we examined Illinois at the ZIP code level …
Social-spatial network structures and community ties of egocentric sex and confidant networks
Exploring how sexual and confidant networks overlap spatially and socially could facilitate a better understanding of sexually transmitted infection risk, as well as help identify areas for interventions. This study aims to examine how a sexual and peer-affiliate network is impacted or shaped by interconnected social relationships and spatial patterns. We used data collected from a sample of 618 young black men who have sex with men (YBMSM) and t…
Rural risk environments, opioid-related overdose, and infectious diseases
Identifying Areas with Disproportionate Local Health Department Services Relative to Opioid Overdose, HIV and Hepatitis C Diagnosis Rates
Background: U.S. rural populations have been disproportionately affected by the syndemic of opioid-use disorder (OUD) and the associated increase in overdoses and risk of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission. Local health departments (LHDs) can play a critical role in the response to this syndemic. We utilized two geospatial approaches to identify areas of discordance between LHD service availability and dis…
Urban foodscape trends
Urban foodscape trends
Conceptualizing the Socio-Built Environment
Individual, interpersonal, and neighborhood measures associated with opioid use stigma
Despite growing awareness of opioid use disorder (OUD), fatal overdoses and downstream health conditions (e.g., hepatitis C and HIV) continue to rise in some populations. Various interrelated structural forces, together with social and economic determinants, contribute to this ongoing crisis; among these, access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and stigma towards people with OUD remain understudied. We combined data on methadone, bup…
Social-spatial network structures and community ties of egocentric sex and confidant networks
Exploring how sexual and confidant networks overlap spatially and socially could facilitate a better understanding of sexually transmitted infection risk, as well as help identify areas for interventions. This study aims to examine how a sexual and peer-affiliate network is impacted or shaped by interconnected social relationships and spatial patterns. We used data collected from a sample of 618 young black men who have sex with men (YBMSM) and t…
Urban foodscape trends
Identifying Areas with Disproportionate Local Health Department Services Relative to Opioid Overdose, HIV and Hepatitis C Diagnosis Rates
Background: U.S. rural populations have been disproportionately affected by the syndemic of opioid-use disorder (OUD) and the associated increase in overdoses and risk of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission. Local health departments (LHDs) can play a critical role in the response to this syndemic. We utilized two geospatial approaches to identify areas of discordance between LHD service availability and dis…
Rural risk environments, opioid-related overdose, and infectious diseases
Distilling the Effect of the Great Recession on Food Access in a Segregated City
The Great Recession greatly exacerbated income inequality and might have also magnified unequal access to healthy food in the United States. There is a growing need to examine small-area effects of the Great Recession, especially among minority populations who were disproportionately targeted for predatory loans and experienced higher rates of foreclosure. To explore how the Great Recession interacted with a foodscape locally, a counterfactual qu…
A Vulnerability Assessment for a Future HIV Outbreak Associated With Injection Drug Use in Illinois, 2017–2018
The current opioid crisis and the increase in injection drug use (IDU) have led to outbreaks of HIV in communities across the country. These outbreaks have prompted country and statewide examination into identifying factors to determine areas at risk of a future HIV outbreak. Based on methodology used in a prior nationwide county-level analysis by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), we examined Illinois at the ZIP code level …
Social-spatial network structures and community ties of egocentric sex and confidant networks
Exploring how sexual and confidant networks overlap spatially and socially could facilitate a better understanding of sexually transmitted infection risk, as well as help identify areas for interventions. This study aims to examine how a sexual and peer-affiliate network is impacted or shaped by interconnected social relationships and spatial patterns. We used data collected from a sample of 618 young black men who have sex with men (YBMSM) and t…
Conceptualizing the Socio-Built Environment
Individual, interpersonal, and neighborhood measures associated with opioid use stigma
Despite growing awareness of opioid use disorder (OUD), fatal overdoses and downstream health conditions (e.g., hepatitis C and HIV) continue to rise in some populations. Various interrelated structural forces, together with social and economic determinants, contribute to this ongoing crisis; among these, access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) and stigma towards people with OUD remain understudied. We combined data on methadone, bup…
Social-spatial network structures among young urban and suburban persons who inject drugs in a large metropolitan area
Distinct residential groups exhibit varying patterns of network interaction, travel behaviors, and geographical contexts related to their risk behaviors. Nonetheless, these groups share common concentrated risk activity spaces in a large outdoor urban drug market area, underscoring the significance of accounting for risk spaces and social networks in addressing syndemics within PWID populations
Creation and Validation of a New Socio-built Environment Index Measure of Opioid Overdose Risk for Use in Both Non-urban and Urban Settings
Dimensions of uncertainty
COVID-19 surveillance across the U.S. is essential to tracking and mitigating the pandemic, but data representing cases and deaths may be impacted by attribute, spatial, and temporal uncertainties. COVID-19 case and death data are essential to understanding the pandemic and serve as key inputs for prediction models that inform policy-decisions; consistent information across datasets is critical to ensuring coherent findings. We implement an explo…
Innovations in mapping health & structural drivers of disease & well-being
1. In this special issue on Mapping Health, we highlight how researchers have visualized health events, interactions, and services, as well as the complex, multidimensional factors driving health d
Measuring differential exposure, susceptibility, & adaptability as dimensions of vulnerability for U.S. counties across the Pandemic
Geography of the Opioid Crisis
The opioid crisis is a multifaceted, global phenomenon with highly localized, regionalized contexts. While emergent across multiple nations, within the United States and Canada it has reached epidemic proportions, influenced by increased availability of opiates and opioid analgesics as well as limited, varying access to health services and appropriate treatment. Geographic variation of opioid outcomes are associated with social, economic, politic…
Place and the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health
This open access contributed volume is the first to address Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) from a place-based perspective with a transdisciplinary, global outlook. In this open access book, experts from geography, public health, urban planning, sociology, architecture, and more respond to growing calls for action on SDoH to improve health outcomes and promote health equity. Through theoretical considerations and case studies, the book explo…
Advancing environmental justice technologies & technospaces
Environmental Justice (EJ) technologies may be further fortified and refined when connected directly with the communities impacted by environmental injustices. • Grounding EJ technology work in explicit, equity-centered framings remains crucial to advance healthier communities by considering the content of data, how decisions were generated, as well as how resources will be distributed. • When viewed as a technospace, the process of developing an…
Medicine (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (8 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (5 works) · Opioid (4 works) · Population (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (3 works) · Psychological intervention (3 works)