Honghyok Kim
Assistant Professor
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
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1086 SPHPI
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1603 W Taylor St, Chicago, IL 60612
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About
As an environmental epidemiologist and a data scientist, Dr. Honghyok Kim investigates why the health effects of environmental exposures and climate-related factors manifest differently across individuals, communities, and countries using quantitative data analyses and interdisciplinary thinking. His work includes the health impacts of environmental risk factors such as air pollution, temperature, heat waves, and greenness, and associated health disparities by individual-level and community-level characteristics. He also works on theoretical, conceptual, and methodological work to better estimate environmental health impacts than current approaches. His work includes multiple countries and locations. His work has been been published in impactful journals: Environmental Health Perspectives, American Journal of Epidemiology (in press), International Journal of Epidemiology, Environment International, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Selected Publications
Kim, H., Samet, J., & Bell, M.-L. (2022), Association between short-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 mortality: a population-based case-crossover study using individual-level mortality registry confirmed by medical examiners, Environmental Health Perspectives. 130 (11), 117006 (highlighted by ehp journalism)
Kim, H. (co-first), Festa, N. (co-first), Burrows, K., Kim, D. C., Gill, T. & Bell, M. L. (2022) Residential exposure to petroleum refining and stroke in the southern United States, Environmental Research Letters, 17(9), 094018 (highlighted by multiple media outlets)
Kim, H., & Bell, M. L. (pre-print) Adjustment for Unmeasured Spatial Confounding in Settings of Continuous Exposure Conditional on the Binary Exposure Status: Conditional Generalized Propensity Score-Based Spatial Matching, arXiv,2202.00814.
Kim, H., Bell, M. L. (2021) Air pollution and COVID-19 mortality in New York City, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 204(1), 97-99.
Kim, H., Lee, J. T., Fong, K. C., & Bell, M. L. (2021) Alternative adjustment for seasonality and long-term time-trend in time-series analysis for long-term environmental exposures and disease counts. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 21, 2.
Kim, H., Lee, J. T. (2020) Inter-mortality displacement hypothesis and short-term effect of air pollution on mortality in seven major cities of South Korea: a time-series analysis. International Journal of Epidemiology, 49(6). 1802-1812.
Kim, H., Kim, H., & Lee, J. T. (2019). Spatial variation in lag structure in the short-term effects of air pollution on mortality in seven major South Korean cities, 2006–2013. Environment International, 125, 595-605.
Kim, H. & Bell, M. L. On adjustment for temperature in heatwave epidemiology: a new method and toward clarification of methods to estimate health effects of heatwaves, American Journal of Epidemiology (In Press)
Education
Postdoctoral Associate / Fellow (2019-2022)
School of the Environment, Yale University, USA
Ph.D & MPH, Environmental Health (2013-2019)
Department of Public Health Science, Graduate School, Korea University, South Korea
BPH, Environmental Health (2008-2013)
Department of Environmental Health, Korea University, South Korea
Professional Memberships
International Society for Environmental Epidemiology