Brad Riley is a Professor of Public and Community Health at Westfield State University and a Community Health Worker for the City of Easthampton, Massachusetts, where he served two terms as an At-Large City Councilor. He holds a leadership role in the American Public Health Association’s Section on Public Health Education and Health Promotion and serves as a Tribal Relations Working Group Member for the American Society of Public Administration’s Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management.

Brad holds a master’s in public policy and administration and a master’s in education. His research focuses on the social epidemiology of congregate housing, structural violence, and respiratory disease — and how these forces intersect. A published author in the Public Administration Review and the Milbank Quarterly, his work examines the intergovernmental dimensions of homelessness and the public health consequences of state preemption of rent control and minimum wage policies on poverty and underrepresented groups.