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 Areas

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)

Neighborhood disinvestment predicts shorter cancer survival time among Black women diagnosed with invasive breast cancer.
(2025 Feb 20)
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev
Plascak JJ, Xing CY, Mooney SJ, Rundle AG, Schootman M, Qin B, Zeinomar N, Llanos AAM, Iyer HS, Pawlish KS, Ambrosone CB, Demissie K, Hong CC, Bandera EV
Distributed lag models for retrospective cohort data with application to a study of built environment and body weight.
(2025 Jan 7)
Biometrics 81(1):
Bobb JF, Mooney SJ, Cruz M, Vernez Moudon A, Drewnowski A, Arterburn D, Cook AJ
Association between neighborhood walkability and physical activity in a community-based twin sample.
(2025 Feb 5)
Am J Epidemiol 194(2): 340-348
Duncan GE, Hurvitz PM, Williams BD, Avery AR, Pilgrim MJD, Tsang S, Amram O, Mooney SJ, Rundle AG
Design of a Location-Based Case-Control Study of Built Environment Risk Factors for Pedestrian Fatalities in the U.S.
(2024 Oct 11)
Am J Epidemiol
Rundle AG, Uong SP, Bader MDM, Kinsey EW, Kinsey D, Lovasi GS, Mooney SJ, Neckerman KM, Quinn JW
The Automatic Context Measurement Tool (ACMT) to Compile Participant-Specific Built and Social Environment Measures for Health Research: Development and Usability Study.
(2024 Oct 4)
JMIR Form Res 8(): e56510
Zhou W, Youngbloom A, Ren X, Saelens BE, Mooney SD, Mooney SJ
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