Catherine Karr
Adjunct Professor, Epidemiology
Professor, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences
206-616-4355
ckarr@uw.edu
Education
PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2004
MD Medicine, University of Washington, 1999
MS Toxicology, University of Washington, 1989
Contact
206-616-4355
ckarr@uw.edu
Seattle, WA 98105
Bio
Catherine Karr MD PhD (she/her) is an environmental epidemiologist and pediatric environmental medicine specialist. She has a primary appointment in the University of Washington Department of Pediatrics, Joint in Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, and Adjunct in Epidemiology. Her studies focus largely on low resourced communities in the U.S. as well as other low and middle income nations (Kenya). Her work represents methods comprising merging of large datasets on environmental factors and pediatric health outcomes as well as small in depth research using community engaged research practice. Indoor and outdoor air pollution, lead and pesticide exposures are focus areas of her expertise. She also maintains a general pediatric practice at the UW Pediatric Clinic at Roosevelt and directs a UW based regional outreach and consultation service, the NW Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU).
Research Areas
Research Interests
Clean Air, Clean Water, Sustainable Communities, Agricultural health and safety, Chemical hazards, Children's Health, Community-engaged Research, Environmental Health, Environmental Justice, Pesticides, Pollution, Wildfires
DEOHS Biography
Recent Publications (PubMed)
(2024)
PLoS One 19(7): e0305004
Masterson EE, Riederer AM, Loftus CT, Wallace ER, Szpiro AA, Simpson CD, Muralidharan R, Trasande L, Barrett ES, Nguyen RHN, Kannan K, Robinson M, Swan S, Mason WA, Bush NR, Sathyanarayana S, LeWinn KZ, Karr CJ
(2024 Jun 28)
Sci Adv 10(26): eadf3411
Paquette A, Ahuna K, Hwang YM, Pearl J, Liao H, Shannon P, Kadam L, Lapehn S, Bucher M, Roper R, Funk C, MacDonald J, Bammler T, Baloni P, Brockway H, Mason WA, Bush N, Lewinn KZ, Karr CJ, Stamatoyannopoulos J, Muglia LJ, Jones H, Sadovsky Y, Myatt L, Sathyanarayana S, Price ND
(2024 Jul)
Int J Hyg Environ Health 260(): 114407
Ni Y, Szpiro AA, Loftus CT, Workman T, Sullivan A, Wallace ER, Riederer AM, Day DB, Murphy LE, Nguyen RHN, Sathyanarayana S, Barrett ES, Zhao Q, Enquobahrie DA, Simpson C, Ahmad SI, Arizaga JA, Collett BR, Derefinko KJ, Kannan K, Bush NR, LeWinn KZ, Karr CJ
(2024 Jun 13)
Epidemiology
Ni Y, Sullivan A, Szpiro AA, Peng J, Loftus CT, Hazlehurst MF, Sherris A, Wallace ER, Murphy LE, Nguyen RHN, Swan SH, Sathyanarayana S, Barrett ES, Mason WA, Bush NR, Karr CJ, LeWinn KZ
(2024 May 10)
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol
Stampfer O, Zuidema C, Allen RW, Fox J, Sampson P, Seto E, Karr CJ
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In the News
The Washington Post, 11/30/2022
Science Daily, 05/25/2022
ABC News, 07/19/2019
WUNC: North Carolina Public Radio, 09/07/2018
Yakima Herald, 06/29/2018
KING5 News, 06/09/2018
King5 News, 06/07/2018
The Lancet, 05/25/2018
KIRO7-TV, 05/04/2018
KIRO 7, 05/03/2018