Rick Sadler

Guest Author

Rick Sadler, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Public Health at Michigan State University in Flint. His work is rooted in community partnerships and aimed at strengthening the understanding between the built environment and health behaviors/outcomes, with the goal of shaping land use policy to build healthier cities.

Rick's Work:

07.15.2022 Baltimore Row homes

Health Equity
Nutrition

Discriminatory Housing Practices and Food Environment Disparities

Researchers analyzed three types of discriminatory housing practices to understand how they interact with one another and the impact they have on food access.

Guest Author Rick Sadler

12.14.2016 A young child running down a street in Flint, MI, past an electric transformer station

Environment
Environmental Health

You Are Where You Live

Geographical concepts are important for understanding not only what happened in Flint, but specifically where it happened and why it happened there.

Guest Author Rick Sadler