Michael Lemke
Assistant Professor
Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
210/276-9000
Reuel Stallones Building
7411 John Smith Drive, Suite 1100, San Antonio, TX 78229-6041
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.
Center Affiliation
Research Interests
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Community Health
- Diabetes and Metabolic Disorders
- Epidemiology
- Implementation Science
- Injury and Violence
- Maternal and Child Health
- Mental Health
- Occupational Health
- Population Health
- Prevention and Wellness
- Social Determinants of Health