Natasha Malmin

Natasha Malmin, PhD is a tenure-track assistant professor of Environmental Health at Georgia State University. A scholar at the intersection of public policy, health equity, and disaster resilience, Malmin holds a joint PhD in public policy from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University, complemented by a Master of Public Health in Global Environmental Health from Emory University. She is an alumna fellow of the prestigious William Averette Anderson Fund, a leadership program dedicated to advancing underrepresented minority doctoral students in the field of hazard mitigation.

Malmin's research examines how bureaucratic processes in federal disaster recovery programs create administrative burdens that disproportionately affect marginalized communities, with particular attention to their cascading effects on social and health equity. Her interests include qualitative, quantitative, and spatial methods, including participatory geographic information systems mapping, to reveal systemic barriers in post-disaster contexts.

Her interdisciplinary portfolio spans multiple critical dimensions of disaster recovery:

Institutional capacity building (e.g., assessments of state Medical Reserve Corps);

Critical infrastructure resilience (particularly K-12 school systems);  

Maternal health outcomes during long-term recovery; 

Legal epidemiology approaches to disaster governance.

Currently, she is working to develop novel frameworks to assess the distributive health implications of disaster policies, for actionable insights for policymakers and practitioners. She maintains an active research agenda focused on transforming sites of resilience through community-engaged scholarship that centers equity in both methodology and outcomes.