Faculty

Sascha Dublin

Affiliate Professor, Epidemiology

206-287-2870

Education

PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington, 1999
MD University of Washington, 2001

Contact

206-287-2870

Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute
1730 Minor Avenue, Suite 1600
Seattle, WA 98101

Research Interests

Dr. Dublin’s research interests include pharmacoepidemiology, pregnancy outcomes and perinatal epidemiology; aging; and cardiovascular epidemiology. Her work uses real-world health care data from Group Health and many other sources to better understand the safety and effectiveness of medications and other medical interventions.  She often focuses on the impact of interventions in vulnerable populations, particularly pregnant women and older adults. She also has interest and expertise in using novel statistical and epidemiologic methods to answer real-world questions, such as the use of two-phase study designs to reduce bias and Natural Language Processing  to extract information from electronic medical records (EMRs).  She is the Group Health site Principal Investigator for the Medication Exposures in Pregnancy Risk Evaluation Program (MEPREP), a multisite collaboration that has developed data sets including 1.2 million pregnancies across 11 health plans to examine medication safety in pregnant women.

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Anticipated barriers and facilitators of implementing a digital behavioral treatment for chronic pain: a qualitative interview study.
(2026 May 29)
BMC Health Serv Res
Taygar AS, Bartels SL, Christie H, Pelika A, Hesse S, Flink I, Petersson S, Johnsson SI, Boersma K, McCracken LM, Wicksell RK

Digital vectors of disease: how alcohol 'smart' labels leapfrog health policy.
(2026 May 29)
BMC Public Health
Coghlan A, Campbell N, van Den Akker A

One health viral metagenomics for pathogen surveillance: robust mNGS workflows for viral detection and genome recovery from swab and tissue specimens.
(2026 May 29)
BMC Microbiol
Russell T, Formiconi E, Murphy A, Hortion J, McElroy M, Casey M, Cuartero LG, Mee JF, Jahns H, Kelly C, Byrne J, Feeney ER, Mallon PW, Gautier VW

Neurodegenerative and inflammatory biomarkers are detectable in saliva in multiple sclerosis.
(2026 May 29)
Sci Rep
Castelli B, Shapoori S, McMahon JM, Das K, Bocanegra-Lopez AP, Moosavizadeh S, Counihan B, Pandit A, FitzGerald U

Validation of the PEN-FAST Clinical Decision Rule for Penicillin Allergy in an Irish Cohort: A Retrospective Study.
(2026 May 29)
Clin Ther
Dungan L, Little F, O'Connor N, Cox F

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