Deborah Balk is Associate Director of the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research. She is also a member of the CUNY Graduate Center faculty in the sociology, public health and economics programs. Expertise lies in spatial demography and the integration of earth and social science data and methods to address interdisciplinary policy questions. Her current research focus is on urbanization, migration & population distribution, poverty and health, and environmental interactions, particularly climate change.

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GrantmakerTitleStartEndAbstract Link
National Science FoundationIBSS: Multi-Scale processes determining spatial population distribution 9/1/20142/28/2018Click Here
AXA Research GroupEstimating City Growth, Urbanization and Climate-related Risk in the 21st century2/2/20152/1/2017Click Here
NASA (sub)Ecological and sociodemographic determinants and impacts of urbanization and restoration on intertwined urban wetland estuarine systems 5/1/20174/30/2020Click Here