Faculty

Steve Mooney

Associate Professor, Epidemiology


Education

PhD Epidemiology, Columbia University, 2016
MS Epidemiology, Columbia University, 2012
BS Computer Science, Yale University, 1998

Contact


Box 351619
Department of Epidemiology
Hans Rosling Center for Population Health, 868
Seattle, WA 98195

Research Interests

Dr. Mooney is interested, broadly, in how cities affect health, and how we can know whether they do. His research focuses on built environment influences on pedestrian injury and physical activity, augmented with a stable of side projects digging into epidemiologic methodology.

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Limitations (with apologies to Sir Philip Sidney).
(2025 Dec 29)
Epidemiology
Mooney SJ

Kernel Density Bandwidth Specification in Neighborhood Violence Prevention Research.
(2025 Dec)
J Urban Health 102(6): 1152-1162
Zewdie HY, Asa N, Rowhani-Rahbar A, Morrison CN, Mooney SJ

Where Do Older Pedestrians Experience a Risk of Being Killed in a Motor Vehicle Crash?
(2026 Jan)
J Am Geriatr Soc 74(1): 132-142
Burford KG, Neckerman KM, Quinn JW, Bader MDM, Lovasi GS, Mooney SJ, Itzkowitz NG, Kinsey D, Rundle AG

Mitigating the risk of bias exacerbation when controlling for unmeasured spatial confounding for binary exposures.
(2025 Nov 7)
Am J Epidemiol
Li D, Cruz M, Mooney SJ, Cook AJ, Bobb JF

Can We Interpret Analyses of Etiologic Heterogeneity When Molecular Markers Are Used to Classify Tumors?
(2026 Jan 9)
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 35(1): 138-143
Mooney SJ, Rundle AG

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