Departmental Affiliations
Contact Info
615 N. Wolfe Street, Room W7508A
Baltimore
Maryland
21205
US
Experiences & Accomplishments
Education
MPP
Johns Hopkins University
2008
Overview
Jonathan Pollak received a BA from Bucknell University in 2004 and in 2008 he earned a Masters of Public Policy from The Johns Hopkins University focusing on Quantitative Methods in Public Policy Analysis and Econometric Program Evaluation. After completing his studies, he worked as a staff researcher at the JHU Institute for Policy Studies before moving to a similar position in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2010. He became faculty in 2015.
His research focuses on the impacts on the US population from our public health system including childhood obesity, the health impacts of environmental exposures such as proximity to natural gas fracturing, industrial agriculture, and toxic metals, as well as the health effects of land use and the built environment. Mr. Pollak specializes in using Electronic Health Records for the purpose of Epidemiological Research.
His research focuses on the impacts on the US population from our public health system including childhood obesity, the health impacts of environmental exposures such as proximity to natural gas fracturing, industrial agriculture, and toxic metals, as well as the health effects of land use and the built environment. Mr. Pollak specializes in using Electronic Health Records for the purpose of Epidemiological Research.
Select Publications
Selected publications from the last year.
- Schwartz B, Glass TA, Pollak J, Hirsch AG, Bailey-Davis L, Moran T, Bandeen-Roche K. Depression, its co-morbidities and treatment, and childhood body mass index trajectories. Obesity. 2016 (In Press: Accepted July 2016)
- Hirsch AG, Pollak J, Glass TA, Poulsen MN, Bailey-Davis L, Mowery J, Schwartz BS. Early Life Antibiotic Use and Subsequent Diagnosis of Food Allergy and Allergic Diseases. Epidemiology of Allergic Disease. August 2016 (Epub ahead of print).
- Schwartz BS, Pollak J, Bailey-Davis L, Hirsch AG, Cosgrove SE, Nau C, Kress A, Glass TA, Bandeen-Roche K. Antibiotic use and childhood body mass index trajectory. International Journal of Obesity. 2016 Apr;40(4):615-21.
- Casey JA, Savitz DA, Rasmussen SG, Ogburn EL, Pollak J, Mercer DG, Schwartz BS. Unconventional natural gas development and birth outcomes in Pennsylvania, USA. Epidemiology. 2016 Mar;27(2):163-72
- Casey JA, Ogburn EL, Rasmussen SG, Irving JK, Pollak J, Locke PA, Schwartz BS. Predictors of indoor radon concentrations in Pennsylvania 1989-2013. Environmental Health Perspectives. 2015 Nov;123(11):1130-7.