Alina Schnake-Mahl, ScD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy and the Urban Health Collaborative at Drexel’s Dornsife School of Public Health. She is a social epidemiologist and health services researcher, and her primary research interest is in the social and political determinants of health inequities. Her current work aims to identify the compositional and contextual features of places — including neighborhood factors, social policies, and governance structures — that are associated with health disparities. She uses a combination of descriptive and causal methods to identify and inform policies and interventions to address health inequity. She received her doctorate and MPH in social epidemiology from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.