Book(s)
Kolak, Marynia, and Imelda Moise, eds. Place and the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health. Springer Nature, 2025. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-88463-4.
Book Chapters
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Kolak, Marynia, and Kamaria Barronville. “Re-Rooting the Structural Determinants of Health within an Integrated Health Geography.” In Place and the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health. Springer Nature, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88463-4_2.
Moise, Imelda, and Marynia Kolak. “An Introduction to Place and the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health.” In Place and the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health. Springer Nature, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88463-4_1.
Smith, Cecilia, and Marynia Kolak. “Visualizing Public Health Data: Using the U.S. COVID Atlas and GeoDa for Spatial Insights.” In Spatial Literacy in Public Health: Faculty-Librarian Teaching Collaborations. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 2024. https://public.ebookcentral.proquest.com/choice/PublicFullRecord.aspx?p=31515998.
Kolak, Marynia, Michael Steptoe, Holly Manprisio, Lisa Azu-Popow, Megan Hinchy, Geraldine Malana, and Ross Maciejewski “Extending Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) with Geospatial Software as a Service: Participatory Asset Mapping Infrastructures for Urban Health.” In Geospatial Technologies for Urban Health, 209–230. Cham: Springer, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19573-1_11.
Journal Articles
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Shan, Pengyin, and Marynia Kolak. “Building an LLM Gateway as an RSE: Patterns, Pitfalls, and a Case Study from Public Health Data Discovery.” In Proceedings of the 2026 The 35th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing, (2026): pp. 617-619.
Pho, Mai T., Beth Prusaczyk, Ellen Almirol, Scott Fletcher, William Nicholson, Jerel M. Ezell, Suzan M. Walters et al. “Implementation Evaluation of a Multicomponent Intervention to Address the Infectious Disease and Overdose Syndemic Among People Who Use Drugs in Rural Settings.” Journal of Public Health Management and Practice 32, no. 5 (2026): 797.
Kolak, Marynia, Jack Lia, Jose Alavez, Shubham Kumar, Sara Lambert, Adam Cox, Susan Paykin, Winifred Curran, and Michelle Stuhlmacher. “Advancing Environmental Justice Technologies & Technospaces: A Case Study of ChiVes, Open GIS, and Participatory Design.” Wellbeing, Space and Society (2026). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2026.100360.
Kolak, Marynia, Yanjia Cao, and Michael R. Desjardins. “Innovations in Mapping Health & Structural Drivers of Disease & Well-Being: A Journal of Maps Special Collection.” Journal of Maps 21, no. 1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2025.2553512.
Chong, Bradford, Rachel Baccile, Anjani Kapadia, Mandela Gadri, Rahul Sandella, Aaron Goffinet, Sebastian Dobrow, Jeremy Klein, Marynia Kolak, and Sonia S. Kupfer. “Early-Stage Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Diagnosis Is Inversely Associated with Travel Distance and Travel Time.” Pancreas (2024). https://doi.org/10.1097/MPA.0000000000002601.
Aalsma, Matthew C., Lauren A. Bell, Katherine Schwartz, Fangqian Ouyang, Marynia Kolak, Patrick O. Monahan, Sharon P. Mermelstein, Ian Carson, Leslie A. Hulvershorn, and Zachary W. Adams. “Clinician Willingness to Prescribe Medications for Opioid Use Disorder to Adolescents in Indiana.” JAMA Network Open 7, no. 9 (2024): e2435416–e2435416. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2824051.
Scussiatto, Henrique Ochoa, Seunghee Kim, Marynia A. Kolak, Cheryl C. Nocon, Jayant M. Pinto, and Mihir K. Bhayani. “Oral Cancer Incidence Rate Is Associated with Access to Dental Care: City and Statewide Analyses.” Head & Neck (2024). https://doi.org/10.1002/hed.27801.
Tatara, Eric, Qinyun Lin, Jonathan Ozik, Marynia Kolak, Nicholson Collier, Dylan Halpern, Luc Anselin, Harel Dahari, Basmattee Boodram, and John Schneider. “Spatial Inequities in Access to Medications for Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Highlight Scarcity of Methadone Providers under Counterfactual Scenarios.” PLOS Computational Biology 20, no. 7 (2024): e1012307. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012307.
Balawajder, Elizabeth Flanagan, Lori Ducharme, Bruce G. Taylor, Phoebe A. Lamuda, Marynia Kolak, Peter D. Friedmann, Harold A. Pollack, and John A. Schneider. “Factors Associated with the Availability of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in U.S. Jails.” JAMA Network Open 7, no. 9 (2024): e2434704. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2823908.
Crawford, Michael, Francisca Flores, Marynia Kolak, Amy Hawn Nelson, and Malaika Simmons. “Importance of Community Engagement in Data Decision Making.” Big Data 11, no. 2 (2023): 75–86. https://doi.org/10.1089/big.2023.29057.rtd.
Lin, Qinyun, Javier Andres Rojas Aguilera, Leslie D. Williams, Mary Ellen Mackesy-Amiti, Carl Latkin, Juliet Pineros, Marynia Kolak, and Basmattee Boodram. “Social-Spatial Network Structures among Young Urban and Suburban Persons Who Inject Drugs in a Large Metropolitan Area.” International Journal of Drug Policy 122 (2023): 104217. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.21.23286255.
Garg, Gaurang, Yacob G. Tedla, Anika S. Ghosh, Dinushika Mohottige, Marynia Kolak, Myles Wolf, and Abel Kho. “Supermarket Proximity and Risk of Hypertension, Diabetes, and CKD: A Retrospective Cohort Study.” American Journal of Kidney Diseases 81, no. 2 (2023): 168–178. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.ajkd.2022.07.008.
Joudrey, Paul J., Dylan Halpern, Qinyun Lin, Susan Paykin, Christina Mair, and Marynia Kolak. “Methadone Prescribing by Addiction Specialists Likely to Leave Communities without Available Methadone Treatment.” Health Affairs Scholar (2023): qxad061. https://doi.org/10.1093/haschl/qxad061.
Williams, Leslie D., Marynia Kolak, Christian Villanueva, Danielle C. Ompad, Sara L. McLafferty, and Barbara Tempalski. “Creation and Validation of a New Socio-Built Environment Index Measure of Opioid Overdose Risk for Use in Both Non-Urban and Urban Settings.” Journal of Urban Health (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-023-00754-7.
Frank, Kenneth A., Qinyun Lin, Spiro Maroulis, Anna S. Mueller, Ran Xu, Joshua M. Rosenberg, Christopher S. Hayter, Ramy A. Mahmoud, Marynia Kolak, Thomas Dietz, and Lixin Zhang. “Response to ‘Three Comments on the RIR Method.’” Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (2022). https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(22)00034-8/abstract.
Joudrey, Paul J., Marynia Kolak, Qinyun Lin, Susan Paykin, Vidal Anguiano, and Emily A. Wang. “Assessment of Community-Level Vulnerability and Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder.” JAMA Network Open 5, no. 4 (2022): e227028. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.7028.
Schwartz, Brian S., Marynia Kolak, Jonathan S. Pollak, Melissa N. Poulsen, Karen Bandeen-Roche, Katherine A. Moon, Joseph DeWalle, Karen R. Siegel, Carla I. Mercado, Giuseppina Imperatore, and Annemarie G. Hirsch. “Associations of Four Indexes of Social Determinants of Health and Two Community Typologies with New Onset Type 2 Diabetes across a Diverse Geography in Pennsylvania.” PLOS ONE 17, no. 9 (2022): e0274758. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274758.
Lin, Qinyun, Susan Paykin, Dylan Halpern, Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, and Marynia Kolak. “Assessment of Structural Barriers and Racial Group Disparities of COVID-19 Mortality with Spatial Analysis.” JAMA Network Open 5, no. 3 (2022): e220984. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.0984.
Tempalski, Barbara, Leslie D. Williams, Marynia Kolak, Danielle C. Ompad, Julia Koschinsky, and Sara L. McLafferty. “Conceptualizing the Socio-Built Environment: An Expanded Theoretical Framework to Promote a Better Understanding of Risk for Nonmedical Opioid Overdose Outcomes in Urban and Non-Urban Settings.” Journal of Urban Health (2022): 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-022-00645-3.
Lin, Qinyun, Marynia Kolak, Beth Watts, Luc Anselin, Harold Pollack, John Schneider, and Bruce Taylor. “Individual, Interpersonal, and Neighborhood Measures Associated with Opioid Use Stigma: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Survey.” Social Science & Medicine (2022): 115034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115034.
Bergo, Cara J., Jennifer R. Epstein, Samantha Hoferka, Marynia A. Kolak, and Mai T. Pho. “A Vulnerability Assessment for a Future HIV Outbreak Associated with Injection Drug Use in Illinois, 2017–2018.” Frontiers in Sociology 6 (2021): 91. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8170011/.
Frank, Kenneth A., Qinyun Lin, Spiro J. Maroulis, Anna S. Mueller, Ran Xu, Joshua M. Rosenberg, Christopher S. Hayter, Ramy A. Mahmoud, Marynia Kolak, Thomas Dietz, and Lixin Zhang. “Hypothetical Case Replacement Can Be Used to Quantify the Robustness of Trial Results.” Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (2021). https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(21)00036-6/abstract.
Halpern, Dylan, Qinyun Lin, Ryan Wang, Stephanie Yang, Steve Goldstein, and Marynia Kolak. “Dimensions of Uncertainty: A Spatiotemporal Review of Five COVID-19 Datasets.” Cartography and Geographic Information Science (2021): 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2021.1975311.
Kolak, Marynia. “Distilling the Effect of the Great Recession on Food Access in a Segregated City: A Spatial, Quasi-Experimental Approach.” The Professional Geographer (2021): 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2021.1922296.
Schneider, John A., Bruce G. Taylor, Anna L. Hotton, Phoebe A. Lamuda, Jonathan Ozik, Qinyun Lin, Elizabeth Flanagan, Michelle Tuyet Pho, Marynia Kolak, Russell Brewer, and Joanna Pagkas-Bather. “National Variability in Americans’ COVID-19 Protective Behaviors: Implications for Vaccine Roll-Out.” PLOS ONE 16, no. 11 (2021): e0259257.
Kolak, Marynia, Xun Li, Qinyun Lin, Ryan Wang, Moksha Menghaney, Stephanie Yang, and Vidal Anguiano Jr. “The US COVID Atlas: A Dynamic Cyberinfrastructure Surveillance System for Interactive Exploration of the Pandemic.” Transactions in GIS (2021). https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12786.
Wilson, W. Wyatt, Rhys F. M. Chua, Peng Wei, Stephanie A. Besser, Elizabeth L. Tung, Marynia Kolak, and Corey E. Tabit. “Association between Acute Exposure to Crime and Individual Systolic Blood Pressure.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2021.06.017.
Kolak, Marynia, Yen-Tyng Chen, Qinyun Lin, and John Schneider. “Spatial-Network Architectures and Social Flows of Egocentric Sex and Confidant Networks: A Chicago Case Study.” Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114462.
Kolak, Marynia, and Luc Anselin. “A Spatial Perspective on the Econometrics of Program Evaluation.” International Regional Science Review 43, no. 1–2 (2020): 128–153. https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/inrsre/v43y2020i1-2p128-153.html.
Kolak, Marynia A., Yen-Tyng Chen, Sam Joyce, Kaitlin Ellis, Kali Defever, Colleen McLuckie, Sam Friedman, and Mai T. Pho. “Rural Risk Environments, Opioid-Related Overdose, and Infectious Diseases: A Multidimensional, Spatial Perspective.” International Journal of Drug Policy (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102727.
Kolak, Marynia, Jay Bhatt, Yoon Hong Park, Norma A. Padrón, and Ayrin Molefe. “Quantification of Neighborhood-Level Social Determinants of Health in the Continental United States.” JAMA Network Open 3, no. 1 (2020): e1919928. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.19928.
Kolak, Marynia, Geethi Abraham, and Mary R. Talen. “Mapping Census Tract Clusters of Type 2 Diabetes in a Primary Care Population.” Preventing Chronic Disease 16 (2019): E59. https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd16.180502.
McLuckie, Christopher, Michelle T. Pho, Kelsey Ellis, Liat Navon, Kimberly Walblay, William D. Jenkins, Carolina Rodriguez, Marynia Kolak, Yen-Tyng Chen, John A. Schneider, and Whitney E. Zahnd. “Identifying Areas with Disproportionate Local Health Department Services Relative to Opioid Overdose, HIV and Hepatitis C Diagnosis Rates: A Study of Rural Illinois.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 6 (2019): 989.
Tung, Elizabeth L., Daniel A. Hampton, Marynia Kolak, Selwyn O. Rogers, Joyce P. Yang, and Monica E. Peek. “Race/Ethnicity and Geographic Access to Urban Trauma Care.” JAMA Network Open 2, no. 3 (2019): e190138. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2727264.
Tung, Elizabeth L., Raymond F. Chua, Stephanie A. Besser, Stacy T. Lindau, Marynia Kolak, Emeka C. Anyanwu, James K. Liao, and Charles E. Tabit. “Association of Rising Violent Crime with Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Risk: Longitudinal Evidence from Chicago, 2014–2016.” American Journal of Hypertension 32, no. 12 (2019): 1192–1198.
Chen, Yen-Tyng, Marynia Kolak, Dustin T. Duncan, Phil Schumm, Stuart Michaels, Kayo Fujimoto, and John A. Schneider. “Neighbourhoods, Networks and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Awareness: A Multilevel Analysis of a Sample of Young Black Men Who Have Sex with Men.” Sexually Transmitted Infections (2018). https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2018-053639.
Kolak, Marynia, Michelle Bradley, Daniel R. Block, Lindsay Pool, Gaurang Garg, Chrissy Kelly Toman, Kyle Boatright, Dawid Lipiszko, Julia Koschinsky, Kiarri Kershaw, Mercedes Carnethon, Tamara Isakova, and Myles Wolf. “Urban Foodscape Trends: Disparities in Healthy Food Access in Chicago, 2007–2014.” Health & Place 52 (2018): 231–239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.06.003.
Research Briefs
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Curran, William, Michelle Stuhlmacher, Marynia Kolak, and Jose Alavez. “Community Report: Overview of ChiChives.com Project Activities, October 2022 to September 2024.” Research report. Chicago Health Atlas / ChiVes Project, 2024. URL.https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pe3grtQEo8m8zbt4eUOzxaziCilPGNWH/view.
Paykin, Susan, Moksha Menghaney, Qinyun Lin, and Marynia Kolak. “Rural, Suburban, Urban Classification for Small Area Analyses.” Research Brief, 2022. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.25148.16009.
Salem, E., Marynia Kolak, and B. Urbaszewski. “Electrification of CTA Buses: Health Implications of Inaction.” Research Brief, 2020. https://resphealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CTA-Electrification-Health-Benefits-Report.pdf.
Gurin-Sands, Celeste, Amy Loury, Sarah Waas, Marynia Kolak, Rebecca Elias, Doug Jutte, Mary Cunningham, and Erin Laflamme. “From Outcomes to Impact: An Exploratory Model for Estimating the Health Returns of Comprehensive Community Development.” Research Brief. Build Healthy Places Network, 2019.
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