Trang VoPham, PhD, MPH, MS
Associate Professor, Epidemiology Program
Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutch
Member
Translational Data Science Integrated Research Center (TDS IRC), Fred Hutch
Dr. Trang VoPham is an epidemiologist whose research focuses on understanding the role of place or location — particularly environmental risk factors — in health using geospatial science. She is Principal Investigator of the Geospatial Exposome Lab (geoexlab). She has examined the associations between environmental exposures, such as air pollution, pesticides, and ultraviolet radiation, in relation to risk for cancer and other chronic disease outcomes using data from the Nurses’ Health Studies; Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results or SEER; SEER-Medicare; Nationwide Inpatient Sample; and electronic health records. Dr. VoPham is also an expert in developing environmental exposure models using geospatial methods for exposure assessment in epidemiologic studies, including a high spatiotemporal resolution light exposure model for solar jetlag and environmental circadian misalignment.
Other Appointments & Affiliations
Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of WashingtonAffiliate Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology
University of Washington
Member, Editorial Board
British Journal of Cancer
Member, Editorial Board
Cancer Epidemiology
Education
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Cancer Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 2018
PhD, Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, 2014
MS, Geographic Information Science and Technology, University of Southern California, 2014
MPH, Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, 2010
BA, Sociology and Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, 2009
Awards & Honors
2024 - Geospatial World Rising Star Award
2021 - Emerging Scholar in Health and Medical Geography Award, American Association of Geographers
Research Grants (Current and Completed)
Solar jetlag and health disparities in liver cancer (American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant RSG-25-1516665-01-ESED)
Environmental exposures and disparities in sleep health (NIH/NHLBI and NIEHS R21 HL177702)
Air pollution and health disparities in liver disease and cancer (NIH/NIDDK K01 DK125612)
Feasibility study on environmental exposures in colorectal cancer disparities by race and ethnicity (NIH/NCI P50 CA285275 Career Enhancement Program Award)
Air pollution adductomics and liver cancer risk (NIH/NCI P30 CA015704 Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium New Investigator Award)
Spatiotemporal refinement for environmental circadian misalignment (NIH/NIEHS P30 ES007033 University of Washington Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics and Environment)
Machine learning for the exposome of mortality (Fred Hutch Translational Data Science Integrated Research Center)
Light sensor validation of a spatiotemporal exposure model / The Light Study (Fred Hutch Public Health Sciences Division)
Reducing PM2.5 exposure and lung cancer risk using spatial data science / The Air Study (Prevent Cancer Foundation)