Faculty

Trang VoPham

Affiliate Associate Professor, Epidemiology

206-667-2642

Education

Post-doctoral fellowship Cancer Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2018
PhD Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, 2014
MS Geographic Information Science and Technology, University of Southern California, 2014
MPH Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, 2010
BA Sociology, Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 2009

Contact

206-667-2642

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Public Health Sciences Division, Epidemiology Program
1100 Fairview Ave N
Seattle, WA 98109
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Bio

Dr. Trang VoPham (she/her/hers) is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on understanding the role of place or location — particularly environmental risk factors — in health using geospatial science. She is Principal Investigator of the Geospatial Exposome Lab (geoexlab) and has been awarded funding for her work including from the National Institutes of Health, Prevent Cancer Foundation, and American Cancer Society. Dr. VoPham’s research has investigated the associations between environmental exposures, including air pollution, pesticides, and ultraviolet radiation, in relation to cancer and other chronic disease outcomes using data from large-scale study populations such as the Nurses’ Health Studies; Women’s Health Initiative; Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER); SEER-Medicare; Nationwide Inpatient Sample; and electronic health records. Dr. VoPham is also an expert in developing environmental exposure models using geospatial analytics for exposure assessment in epidemiologic studies, including a high spatiotemporal resolution light exposure model for solar jetlag and environmental circadian misalignment.

Research Interests

  • cancer epidemiology
  • climate change
  • electronic health records
  • environmental epidemiology
  • exposome
  • geospatial science
  • health disparities
  • liver disease and cancer
  • remote sensing
  • social determinants of health
  • wearable sensors

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in drinking water and cancer prevalence in the United States.
(2026 Feb 11)
Environ Health
Karasaki S, Iyer HS, Phipps AI, VoPham T

Sleep midpoint, social jetlag, and cancer risk in the Cancer Prevention Study-3.
(2026 Jan 17)
Cancer Causes Control 37(2): 29
Donzella SM, VoPham T, Weaver MD, Patel AV, Phipps AI, Zhong C

Geospatial Approaches for Environmental Justice: A Critical Review.
(2025 Dec 23)
Annu Rev Public Health
Karasaki S, Berberian AG, Zewdie HY, Cushing LJ, VoPham T

Changes in Liver Disease Etiology Support a Lower Alpha-Fetoprotein Threshold for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Screening.
(2025 Nov 14)
Gastroenterology
Kim NJ, Li M, Vutien P, Mecham B, Borgerding J, Swarts K, Atuluru P, Michel MC, Barnard Giustini A, Mezzacappa C, Berry K, VoPham T, Marsh TL, Feng Z, Johnson KM, Beste LA, Kaplan DE, Taddei TH, Ioannou GN

Harnessing Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) for Environmental Epidemiology: A Narrative Review.
(2025 Sep 26)
Curr Environ Health Rep 12(1): 34
Iyer HS, Karasaki S, Yi L, Hswen Y, James P, VoPham T

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