Faculty

Joan Casey

Associate Professor, Epidemiology
Associate Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences

206-543-0408

Education

BS Biological Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 2008
MA Applied Physiology, Columbia University, 2009
PhD Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 2014

Contact

206-543-0408

Office 254-B
Hans Rosling Center
3980 15th Avenue Northeast
Seattle, WA 98105
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Bio

Joan A. Casey (she/her) received her doctoral degree from the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Casey uses large secondary spatial data sources to investigate the health impacts of a range of emerging environmental exposures including wildfires, power outages, fossil fuel infrastructure, and the energy transition. She prioritizes the study of joint social and environmental risk factors that help explain persistent health disparities and focuses on policy-relevant climate justice work. Dr. Casey also holds a BS in Biological and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University and an MA in Applied Physiology from Teachers College at Columbia University.

Research Areas

Research Interests

Environmental and climate epidemiology; environmental justice; health disparities; electronic health records; spatial statistics; quasi-experimental design; wildfires; power outages; older adults; perinatal and maternal health

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Recent Publications (PubMed)

Pitfalls of Using Negative Control Outcomes in Environmental Epidemiology.
(2025 Nov 25)
Curr Environ Health Rep 12(1): 47
McBrien H, Rudolph KE, Casey JA, Mayeda ER, Inose S, Kioumourtzoglou MA
popexposure: An open-source Python package to find the number of people residing near environmental hazards quickly and efficiently.
(2025 Oct 22)
medRxiv
McBrien H, Casey JA, Chillrud LG, Flores NM, Wilner LB
A Comprehensive Dataset of Factory Farms in California Compiled Using Computer Vision and Human Validation.
(2025 Nov 19)
Sci Data 12(1): 1826
Magesh V, Rothbacher N, Comess S, Maneri E, Rodolfa K, Tartof S, Casey J, Nachman K, Ho DE
Stillbirths and the race-specific gap in neonatal death among extremely preterm births.
(2025 Nov 6)
Sci Rep 15(1): 38965
Bruckner TA, Stolte A, Bustos B, Gemmill A, Casey JA, Lee H, Catalano RA
Wildfire-specific fine particulate matter and preterm birth: a US ECHO Cohort analysis.
(2026 Sep 9)
Lancet Planet Health
Sherris AR, Dearborn LC, Goin DE, Loftus CT, Szpiro AA, Casey JA, Ilango SD, Angal J, Bennett DH, Buxton MA, Camargo CA Jr, Carroll KN, Childs ML, Cioffi C, Croen LA, Dabelea D, Eick SM, Farzan SF, Ferrara A, Garcia E, Gemmill A, Gilliland F, Habre R, Hertz-Picciotto I, Hipwell AE, Hirtz D, Karagas MR, Koinis-Mitchell D, Kress AM, Leve LD, Liang D, Lyall K, McCormack LA, McEvoy CT, Mirzakhani H, Morello-Frosch R, Niu Z, O'Connor TG, Peterson AK, Schmidt RJ, Karr CJ, Padula AM, ECHO Cohort Consortium
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