Joan Casey
Assistant Professor, Department of Enviromental and Occupational Health Sciences
University of Washington
In the News:
- Casey and Co-authors Summarize Research on Ambient Environmental Risk Factors for Primary Headache Disorders (04/28/2024)
- Casey and Colleagues Identify Missing Black Males Among Preterm Births in the U.S. (04/11/2024)
- Casey and Co-authors Assess the Accuracy of Self-Reported Distance to Nearest Unconventional Oil and Gas Wells (03/13/2024)
- CSDE Panel on Climate Impacts on Population Health: Data Science, Demography, & Disparities (02/22/2024)
- CSDE Welcomes 4 New Research Affiliates (02/02/2024)
Joan Casey is an environmental epidemiologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington School of Public Health. She received her PhD in Environmental Health Sciences from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH) in 2014, advised by Dr. Brian S. Schwartz. She holds a BS in Biological and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University and an MA in Applied Physiology from Columbia University. She completed a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, where she had the opportunity to initiate ongoing interdisciplinary collaborations. She studies climate-related environmental challenges while considering the important role of social determinants of health, with the goal of informing policy decisions.