Marie Lynn Miranda
Professor, University of Notre Dame; Director, Children’s Environmental Health Initiative; Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics, Duke University and Indiana UniversityDr. Marie Lynn Miranda is an accomplished data science scholar and communicator with over 135 peer-reviewed publications focused on the nexus of health, education, equity, and the environment, with over $65 million in federal, corporate, and foundation funding. Miranda specializes in spatial analytic approaches, especially targeted at understanding how the environment shapes health and wellbeing among children and those from low resource communities. Miranda is a leader in the rapidly evolving field of geospatial health informatics and has developed global cultural and scientific competence through extensive work on four continents.
Miranda founded and continues to lead the Children’s Environmental Health Initiative (CEHI), a research, education, and outreach program committed to fostering environments where all people can prosper. CEHI received the 2008 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice Award.
Miranda has held academic leadership positions at the University of Michigan (Dean of the School of Natural Resources and the Environment), Rice University (Provost), and the University of Notre Dame (Provost). Miranda is a Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of Duke University. She has a Ph.D. and M.A. from Harvard University. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of Sigma Xi.