Dr. Amber L. Pearson
- Associate Professor
- Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences
- Geography Building
- 673 Auditorium Road, Room 231
- East Lansing, MI 48824
- 517-432-7163
- apearson@msu.edu
AREA OF STUDY
Health Geography
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I am a health geographer with a focus on social justice and understanding the unexpected tenacity, adaptability, and resilience of the underprivileged. I have diverse regional interests from poor to wealthy countries. My work features strong geospatial and epidemiologic methods and critical development thinking.Specifically, my research relates to aspects of the built, physical and social environment that bolster health in the face of adversity. While I have worked on topics ranging from access to healthy foods, air pollutants, social isolation, and understanding social deprivation of neighborhoods, I also have an explicit focus on water research.
My water research is at the intersection of spatial and social dimensions of health with a focus on water availability. My overall research goal is to understand the interactions between human-induced ecological change, political and social dimensions of access to water, and human agency/coping strategies to improve health and wellbeing while paying careful attention to health inequalities and environmental justice.