Shima Hamidi, PhD

Shima Hamidi, PhD, is a Bloomberg Assistant Professor of American Health in Environmental Challenges in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering. Before joining the Bloomberg School, Dr. Hamidi was the director of the Center for Transportation Equity, Decisions and Dollars, a $7.5 million center funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation at the University of Texas at Arlington. She has done extensive research on the negative consequences of car-oriented community design on public health and climate change. She has written two books and over 40 journal articles on urban sprawl and its impacts on individuals’ economic mobility, traffic safety, life expectancy, obesity and inactivity, emergence of food deserts, crime rates, and air quality.