Friday, February 24 // 3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m. // Room 2110 in the CoHS Building
Join Dr. Joan Casey, Assistant Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington School of Public Health for a seminar on Fossil-fueled Environmental Injustice: A Lifecycle Perspective.
About
Joan A. Casey received her doctoral degree from the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2014. Dr. Casey is an environmental epidemiologist who focuses on environmental health, environmental justice, and sustainability. Her research uses large secondary health datasets, such as electronic health records, to study the relationship between emerging environmental exposures and population health across the lifecourse. She also considers vulnerable populations, joint social and environmental exposures, and health disparities, particularly in an era of climate change. Dr. Casey investigates a range of exposures including wildfires, power outages, ambient temperature, the built environment, fossil fuel infrastructure, and concentrated animal feeding operations.
From 2014-2016, Dr. Casey was a Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar. She serves as an editorial board review member for Environmental Health Perspectives and is the co-chair of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology North American Chapter. Dr. Casey also holds a BS in Biological and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University and an MA in Applied Physiology from Teachers College at Columbia University.
