Meet the People of the Irsay

Biography

Unai Miguel Andres is PhD student in Geography at the IU School of Arts & Sciences. His research interests focus on identifying, measuring, and understanding the social and geographic inequities in the Indiana food & housing landscapes as well as the impacts these inequities have on the health outcomes of Indiana residents. He has a background in social and environmental mixed methods research and has used his skills to further data-drive community-based scholarship. He has years of experience working as a data analyst within the Indiana University system and has development dozens of spatial indicators and metrics related to health outcomes, access to services (food, transportation, green spaces, etc.), and social disparities, to help partners understanding the spatial inequities in these systems from a multi-geographical and multi-population perspective.