Raed Mansour
Senior Fellow at Metropolitan Planning Council
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRaed Mansour is a senior fellow based in Chicago with 10 years of experience leading cross-sector initiatives at the intersection of public health, climate resilience, and urban planning. He has designed and deployed data-driven programs—from community air monitoring and heat vulnerability indices to tree equity and COVID tech solutions—while convening partners across city agencies, academia, and NGOs. As a former director of environmental innovation at the Chicago Department of Public Health he built technical systems (GIS, dashboards, SMS and Salesforce apps) and managed multi-disciplinary grants and partnerships that translated research into community-centered action. He serves on the Openlands board and advises regional climate and tree initiatives, bringing both policy fluency and hands-on program delivery. Trained in health communication and neurobiology, Raed blends scientific rigor with strategic storytelling to drive adoption and equity in environmental health interventions. An uncommon strength is his ability to move projects from technical prototyping to institutional adoption, securing sustained resources and multi-stakeholder buy-in.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Graduate Studies Clinical Nutrition, Post-Graduate Studies Clinical Nutrition at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and ScienceBS Neurobiology and Physiology, BS Neurobiology and Physiology at Purdue UniversityMS Health Communication, MS Health Communication at Boston University
English, Arabic
Github Skills (9)
near8
health8
react5
virus1
python1
machine-learning1
predict1
hazard1
modeling1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RaedMan/Trees-for-Public-Health
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:358 commits, 348 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
healthyregions/OpenAirQ-phase1
May 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 issue in 9 months
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