Laura Dominique Pesliak

Laura Dominique Pesliak is an environmental health sociologist and public health scholar whose research centres on structural urban discrimination, intersectional environmental health and justice, and gendered urban citizenship. She earned a bachelor in public health from the University of Bremen and a double master of science in public policy and human development, jointly awarded by Maastricht University and the United Nations University–MERIT. Laura is currently pursuing a doctorate in sociology at the University of Hamburg. She has contributed to research on social epidemiology at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS), as well as on global development dynamics of social policy at the SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy. Laura now serves as a research associate in urban sustainable environmental health at Bielefeld University, where, for the past 4 years, she has also lectured on the BSc Health Communication and MSc Public Health programmes.