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 Interests

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

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Air Pollution Exposure in Infancy and Incidence of Atopic Dermatitis in Preschool-Aged Children.
(2026 Jul 29)
Epidemiology
Racciatti M, Dearborn LC, Casey JA, Szpiro AA, Carroll KN, Kaufman JD, LeWinn KZ, Zhao Q, Derefinko K, Sathyanarayana S, Karr CJ, Loftus CT

Spatial and neighborhood data in the collaborative cohort of cohorts for COVID-19 Research (C4R).
(2026)
PLoS One 21(7): e0352170
Hirsch JA, Besser LM, Pescador Jimenez M, Dickinson ST, Cornelius T, Francisco ST, Lawin K, Abdel Magid HS, Albrecht SS, Bai Allen N, Balte P, Barber S, Bateman LA, Beach LB, Block JP, Brown SC, Buhr RG, Chambers EC, Crooks JL, Diez Roux AV, Elkind MSV, Gallo LC, Gordon-Larsen P, Gutierrez J, Isasi CR, James P, Judd SE, Kanaya AM, Kandula NR, Kaufman JD, Kershaw KN, Kucharska-Newton AM, Kulick ER, Lee JS, Lovasi GS, Mauger D, McClure LA, Melly S, Merkin SS, Michael YL, Oates GR, Phillips BR, Reese JA, Regan EA, Reimer CJ, Rodriguez DA, Rundek T, Schembri M, Sims M, Spartano NL, Wilson C, Zhang Y, Oelsner EC

Fine particulate matter exposure and long-term lung-function trajectory in adults with cystic fibrosis.
(2026 Jul 3)
Ann Am Thorac Soc
Sun BZ, Cogen JD, Brown M, Faino AV, Hinckley Stukovsky K, Szpiro AA, Sheppard L, Goss CH, Kaufman J, Rosenfeld M

Postsurgical Opioid Prescribing Among Injured Workers in Washington State: 2017-2020 Trends and Policy Effects.
(2026 Jun 28)
Am J Ind Med
Haight JR, Fulton-Kehoe D, Hajat A, Kaufman JD, Franklin GM

Air pollution is linked to divergent cortical thickness patterns in brain regions vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease.
(2026 Jul)
Neurotoxicology 115(): 103495
Salminen LE, Wang X, Petkus AJ, Fennema-Notestine C, Elman JA, Hagler DJ Jr, Kaufman JD, Millstein J, Braskie MN, Liu J, Cho HJ, Kothapalli D, Thompson PM, Beavers DP, Espeland MA, Gatz M, Resnick SM, Frahmand I, Rapp SR, Finch CE, Chen JC, Kremen WS, Franz CE

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