Faculty

Anjum Hajat

Associate Professor, Epidemiology


Education

PhD Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, 2010
MPH Epidemiology, International Health, University of Michigan, 1998
BA International Affairs, George Washington University, 1995

Contact


Box 351619
Department of Epidemiology
Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 870
Seattle, WA 98195

Bio

Dr. Hajat received her undergraduate degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University, her MPH in Epidemiology and International Health from the University of Michigan, and her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

Research Areas

Research Interests

Dr. Hajat’s current research interests look at understanding the social and environmental stressors that disproportionately impact disadvantaged populations and how these stressors impact a variety of health outcomes, a research area that may have implications for understanding the underlying causes of health disparities. She was awarded a NIH K99/R00 Career Development Award to study the intersection of psychosocial stressors and air pollution on CVD. She also conducts research on the impacts of financial instability and precarious work on health outcomes. These upstream factors are critical to better understanding population health. In addition, Dr. Hajat is interested in biomarkers that are impacted by social and environmental stressors; this line of research aims to gain a better understanding of the mechanisms by which social stressors cause disease. Lastly, she is interested in applying novel epidemiologic methods to her research.

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Correction: Associations of residential green space with internalizing and externalizing behavior in early childhood.
(2024 Sep 12)
Environ Health 23(1): 74
Hazlehurst MF, Hajat A, Tandon PS, Szpiro AA, Kaufman JD, Tylavsky FA, Hare ME, Sathyanarayana S, Loftus CT, LeWinn KZ, Bush NR, Karr CJ
"I probably shouldn't go in today": Inequitable access to paid sick leave and its impacts on health behaviors during the emergence of COVID-19 in the Seattle area.
(2024)
PLoS One 19(9): e0307734
Iwu CD, Cox SN, Sohlberg SL, Kim AE, Logue J, Han PD, Sibley TR, Ilcisin M, Fay KA, Lee J, McCulloch DJ, Wang Y, Boeckh M, Englund JA, Starita LM, Hajat A, Chu HY
What extraordinary times tell us about ordinary ones: A multiple case study of precariously employed food retail and service workers in two U.S. state contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
(2024 May 6)
J Crit Public Health 1(1): 45-60
Vignola EF, Andrea SB, Hajat A, Weathers TD, Ahonen EQ
The association between precarious employment and stress among working aged individuals in the United States.
(2024 Oct)
Prev Med 187(): 108123
Oddo VM, Mabrouk S, Andrea SB, Ahonen EQ, Winkler MR, Vignola EF, Hajat A
Conceptual frameworks for the integration of genetic and social epidemiology in complex diseases.
(2024 Dec)
Glob Epidemiol 8(): 100156
Xue D, Hajat A, Fohner AE
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