Eric Delmelle, PhD, MSc

Senior Scientist

Eric Delmelle is a Senior Scientist at UHC collaborating to the Neighborhood Impacts of Cognitive Health and Dementia Disparities project. Before joining Drexel, he was a faculty at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte teaching courses in spatial epidemiology, geovisualization and data science. Eric received his M.A. in Geography at SUNY Buffalo in 2001, his M.S. in Operations Research at SUNY Buffalo in 2004, his PhD in Geography at SUNY Buffalo in 2005, and a Master in Biostatistics in 2022 from Erasmus University. His research agenda has sought to apply spatial epidemiological approaches for examining the impact of the environment on health outcomes. A recent aspect of that research has been to better understand how residential mobility can affect both cluster detection and access to care. Eric received funding by the March of Dimes Foundations, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the North Carolina Water Resources Research, the North Carolina Department of Justice, and the National Science Foundation. You will sometimes find him on the tennis courts, or on his bike along the Schuylkill River. He enjoys baking bread, speaking in French to his kids and is a native from Brussels (Belgium). He likes stabilo pens, and loves to make nice maps!