Matthew Mleczko, PhD

Matt Mleczko is a Post-Doctoral Associate jointly appointed at the Center for State Health Policy and the Ralph W. Voorhees Center for Civic Engagement in the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. He is also affiliated with the Rutgers Housing and Health Equity Cluster and Princeton University’s Eviction Lab. Matt studies integration, housing, poverty, and inequality, with a particular focus on the role of housing policies and practices in fostering equitably integrated and cohesive communities. At the Center, he will join the National Institutes of Health funded study (R01MD015261) to assess the contribution of homelessness to ethnoracial and geographic disparities in health services outcomes and the role of permanent supportive housing in reducing these disparities. Matt’s work also involves a number of community engagement initiatives, including steering committee membership for New Jersey Future’s “Great Neighborhoods for All/NJ – Affordable, Healthy, Connected” initiative and Princeton University’s SPIA in NJ program. Matt received the 2023 Irving Louis Horowitz Award from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy for the overall most outstanding dissertation. He earned his Ph.D. in Population Studies and Social Policy from Princeton University in 2024.