About

Joan A. Casey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington, with additional roles in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. She holds a BS in Biological and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, an MA in Applied Physiology from Teachers College at Columbia University, and a PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Casey's research utilizes large secondary spatial data sources to investigate the health impacts of emerging environmental exposures such as wildfires, power outages, fossil fuel infrastructure, and the energy transition. She emphasizes the study of joint social and environmental risk factors that contribute to persistent health disparities and focuses on policy-relevant climate justice work. Her work includes examining the effects of climate hazards like heat domes and wildfires on health outcomes such as preterm birth rates, asthma-related emergency visits, and dementia risk, with a particular interest in environmental justice and health disparities.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Environmental health
• Demography
• Environmental science
• Geography

Recent grants

• The Impact of Unconventional Natural Gas Development on Maternal, Perinatal, and Childhood Health: an Electronic Health Record Approach

  NIH · $747k · 2019–2023

• The impact of unconventional natural gas development on maternal, perinatal, and childhood health: An electronic health record approach

  NIH · $203k · 2017–2019

Frequent coauthors

• Brian S. Schwartz

  Johns Hopkins University

  74 shared

• Rachel Morello‐Frosch

  Berkeley Public Health Division

  66 shared

• Ralph Catalano

  University of California, Berkeley

  65 shared

• Tarik Benmarhnia

  University of California, San Diego

  54 shared

• Alison Gemmill

  Johns Hopkins University

  39 shared

• Holly Elser

  Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

  38 shared

• Tim A. Bruckner

  UC Irvine Health

  33 shared

• Kara E. Rudolph

  26 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Environmental Health Sciences

  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

  2014

• M.A.

  Teachers College of Columbia University

  2009

• B.S., Biological and Environmental Engineering

  Cornell University

  2008

Awards & honors

• Robert W. Day Endowed Professorship in Public Health

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