Haleh Mehdipour

Haleh Mehdipour is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of climate justice, disaster resilience, housing equity, public health, and the built environment. She earned her PhD in design, construction, and planning from the University of Florida, where her research examined the temporal and spatial relationships between housing conditions and respiratory health in historically underserved communities.

Drawing on construction management, architecture, disaster recovery, and statistics, she integrates qualitative and quantitative methods to address complex socio-environmental challenges. Her work combines Participatory Action Research, computational modeling, and community-engaged methodologies to investigate how housing conditions, environmental exposures, and social inequities shape health outcomes and resilience.

She has led and contributed to projects focused on community-led climate adaptation, indoor air quality, disaster risk reduction, and neighborhood revitalization, developing tools and strategies that support equitable decision-making and strengthen communities' capacity to respond to environmental and climate-related hazards. This work is built on sustained collaboration with residents, local organizations, and policymakers who are closest to the problems her research addresses.

Her broader interests center on infrastructure planning, housing policy, and climate adaptation, with particular attention to how emerging technologies and data-driven methods can be put in service of social and spatial justice. Her long-term goal is to build interdisciplinary solutions that produce healthier, more resilient, and more equitable communities in the face of growing environmental and societal challenges.