Katherine Wolf

PhD Student, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; University of California, Berkeley

MS Student, Statistics; University of California, Berkeley

MESc, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Yale University

MPH, Environmental Health Sciences, Yale School of Public Health; Yale University

BA, Music; Vassar College

environmental justice, environmental epidemiology, health equity, air pollution, geographic information systems, community-based participatory research

My research investigates disparities in exposures to environmental hazards, particularly air pollution, and associated human health outcomes.  Some of my prior work looks at associations between airborne fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) components and African American racial residential segregation in the United States as well as the sociodemographic context of oil and gas disposal well locations in the United States.  I am particularly interested in collaborative research models in which scientists take direction from and explicitly share power with members of communities seeking relief from exposure to environmental hazards.

1. Baccarelli AA, Zheng Y, Zhang X, Chang D, Liu L, Wolf KR, Zhang Z, McCracken JP, Díaz A, Bertazzi PA, Schwartz J, Wang S, Kang CM, Koutrakis P, Hou L.  Air pollution exposure and lung function in highly exposed subjects in Beijing, China: a repeated-measure study.  Particle and Fibre Toxicology.  2014 October;11:51.  doi: 10.1186/s12989-014-0051-7.  PMID: 25272992.  PMCID: PMC4192276.

2. Hou L, Barupal J, Zhang W, Zheng Y, Liu L, Zhang X, Dou C, McCracken JP, Díaz A, Motta V, Wolf KR, Bertazzi PA, Schwartz JD, Wang S, Baccarelli AA.  Particulate air pollution exposure and expression of viral and human microRNAs in blood.  Environmental Health Perspectives.  2016 March;124:344-350.  doi: 10.1289/ehp.1408519.  PMID: 26068961.  PMCID: PMC4786978.

Air and Waste Management Association Award

Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study

Yale Jan A. J. Stolwijk Fellowship in Environmental Epidemiology

Yale Climate Change and Health Initiative Summer Fellowship

Yale Hixon Center for Urban Ecology Fellowship

Yale Jubitz Family Endowment for Research Internships

Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies Master’s Research Award

Vassar Ford Scholar Award

Teaching Fellow, Principles of Epidemiology I (CDE 508a); Yale School of Public Health (Fall 2016)