Profile

John P. Wilson, Ph.D., is Professor of Spatial Sciences and Sociology in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (USC) where he is founding director of the Spatial Sciences Institute. He also holds adjunct appointments as Professor in the School of Architecture, the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, and the Viterbi School of Engineering’s Departments of Computer Science and Civil & Environmental Engineering.

His research focuses on the modeling of environmental...

Education

Ph.D., Geography, University of Toronto, Canada
M.Sc. (with Distinction), Geography, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
B.Sc. Honors (1st Class), Geography, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
L.L.B. Honors (2nd Class, 2nd Division), Law, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Recent publications

2023 Gizamba, J.M., Wilson, J.P., Mendenhall, E., Ferguson, L., A review of place-related contextual factors in syndemics research. Health and Place, in press.

2023 de la Haye, K., Saw, H.-W., Miller, S., Bruine de Bruin, W., Wilson, J.P., Weber, K., Frazzini, A., Livings, M., Babboni, M., Kapteyn, A., Ecological risk and protective factors for food insecurity in Los Angeles County during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Health Nutrition, in press.

2023 Berelson, W., Rollins, N., Johnson, E., Margulies, E., Casas, N., MacDonald, B., Kim, J., Wilson, J.P., A portable...