Population Studies and Training Center

Mwenda joined Brown University and the PSTC in 2018. He is Director of Brown’s Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4).

Mwenda's research focuses on changing spatial patterns of health outcomes among vulnerable populations around the world, and how these patterns are influenced by various environmental, climatic, and socioeconomic factors. His research interests include designing and applying mixed methods that explore, analyze and visualize spatial data patterns, to better understand human-environment dynamics (e.g. population health, climate and society), and the role humans play at the nexus among these.

Prior to arriving at Brown, Mwenda served as Social Demography Lab Manager at the UCSB Broom Center for Demography, and previously worked as a GIS & Spatial Analysis Specialist at Dartmouth College. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MA and PhD degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).