Faculty

Joel D Kaufman

Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences
Professor, Medicine - General Internal Medicine

206-616-3501

Education

MD University of Michigan, 1986
MPH Environmental Health, University of Washington, 1990

Contact

206-616-3501

Box 354695
4225 Roosevelt Way NE
Suite 302
Seattle, WA 98105

Research Areas

Research Interests

Clean Air, Sustainable Communities, Environmental Health, Occupational Medicine, Pollution, Wildfires

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Co-exposure to planned power outages and wildfire PM2.5 and acute healthcare utilization in California: A time-stratified case-crossover study.
(2026 Oct)
PLoS Med 23(10): e1005270
Wilner LB, Jones-Ngo CG, Chen C, Kwoka B, Do V, Kaufman JD, Myers LC, Benmahrnia T, Casey JA
Associations between types of residential greenspace and depressive symptoms in older adults: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
(2026 Oct 26)
Am J Epidemiol
van Baar JM, James A, Chivardi M, Lane KJ, Gradus JL, Besser LM, Hirsch JA, Kaufman JD, James P, Jimenez MP
Association of air pollution exposure and risk of incident atrial fibrillation: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis.
(2026 Oct 16)
Heart Rhythm
Cannon EJ, Kaufman JD, Austin TR, Misialek JR, Heckbert SR, Jacobs DR Jr, Lutsey PL
Long-term ambient air pollution is not associated with circulating soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor.
(2026 Oct)
Environ Epidemiol 10(5): e532
Ghazzal BZ, Ismail A, Huang Y, Gassett A, Farhat T, Elangovan R, Blakely P, Heckbert SR, Kaufman JD, Hayek SS
Air Pollution Triggers Metabolomic Signature of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Mice and Humans: Implications for Cardiovascular Disease Development.
(2026 Nov)
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 46(11): e324277
Lin Y, Qiu X, Gupta R, Ramanathan G, Lu X, Yin F, Fiehn O, Zhang JJ, Kaufman JD, Zhu Y, Rosenfeld ME, Araujo JA
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