Michael Lemke

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About

Dr. Michael K. Lemke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the UTHealth School of Public Health (San Antonio campus), and he is affiliated with the Southwest Center for Occupational & Environmental Health. Dr. Lemke earned a Ph.D. in Community Psychology from Wichita State University, and he completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship (as Clinical Assistant Professor) at Texas A&M University. His research is primarily grounded in novel approaches to emerging and longstanding public/population health problems, with specific emphasis on diverse inter/transdisciplinary collaborations that harness complex systems theoretical perspectives and computational modeling and simulation methodologies. These efforts primarily (but not exclusively) fall within three broad domains: 1) occupational health and safety; 2) maternal health disparities; and 3) firearm violence. Regarding the former, Dr. Lemke is a former long-haul truck driver, with firsthand experience of the negative health and safety impacts of the profession on its workers and related work experience across multiple levels of the trucking industry (including an internship at the American Trucking Associations). Therefore, much of his research is focused on improving commercial truck driver health and safety through quantitative, qualitative, and complex systems-grounded scholarship that aims to identify novel and high-leverage solutions to transform population-level outcomes.

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Center Affiliation

Southwest Center for Occupational & Environmental Health

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Research Interests

• Cardiovascular and Chronic Diseases
• Environmental and Occupational Health
• Health Education/Behavioral Sciences
• Health Equity
• Injury and Violence
• Management and Health Policy
• Maternal and Child Health
• Physical Activity and Nutrition
• Social Determinants of Health