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 is linked to divergent cortical thickness patterns in brain regions vulnerable to Alzheimer's disease.
(2026 Jun 18)
Neurotoxicology
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

Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollutants and risk of pancreatic cancer in a large prospective U.S.-based cohort.
(2026 Jun 16)
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol
Chtourou A, Marcus Post L, Fisher JA, Stolzenberg-Solomon R, Kaufman JD, Silverman DT, Jones RR

Long-term outdoor air pollution and risk of ovarian and endometrial cancers in a large prospective cohort.
(2026 Jun 15)
J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol
Ammons S, Fisher JA, Madrigal JM, Hurwitz LM, Kaufman JD, White AJ, Trabert B, Silverman DT, Applebaum KM, Clarke MA, Jones RR

A New Start.
(2026 May 5)
Environ Health Perspect 134(1): 1-2
Kaufman JD

Street view-based exposure to greenspace and mortality: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
(2026 Jul)
Environ Int 213(): 110339
Pescador Jimenez M, Chivardi M, Coull BA, Hystad P, Diez-Roux AV, Kaufman JD, James P

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