Max Aung, SNRN Liaison

Max Aung, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Research Scientist on the Science & Policy team at UCSF’s Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment. In his role at PRHE, Max focuses on advancing the field of systematic review as the foundation for evidence-based decision making through the development of an evidence to decision framework for environmental health that includes principles that incorporate health equity, environmental justice, benefits, harms, feasibility, cost-benefits and quality of the evidence to inform health policy. Max’s research portfolio also integrates cutting-edge data science and statistics tools to investigate the biological mechanisms linking the prenatal exposure to adverse reproductive health outcomes. Prior to joining PRHE, Max completed doctoral training in Environmental Epidemiology and postdoctoral training in Biostatistics and Precision Health Data Science at the University of Michigan. Max is an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Research Scholars Fellowship.



Joel Kaufman, ISEE Global Executive Council Liaison

Joel Kaufman, MD, MPH, is a physician-epidemiologist, board-certified in internal medicine and occupational medicine. He has been a full-time faculty member at the University of Washington since 1997, currently holding appointments in the Departments of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, and Medicine (General Internal Medicine), and Epidemiology. He also serves as the Director of the UW Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics and Environment at DEOHS. In 2019, Dr Kaufman was named editor-in-chief of Environmental Health Perspectives, a leading environmental health journal published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Dr. Kaufman’s work integrates epidemiology, exposure sciences, toxicology and clinical medicine. His current research activities are primarily focused on environmental factors in cardiovascular and respiratory disease. He is the principal investigator of a major epidemiological prospective cohort study of air pollution and cardiovascular disease (The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution, or “MESA Air”). He directs the UW Northlake Controlled Exposure Facility, a facility customized for experimental inhalation toxicology studies on health effects of combustion products, including diesel exhaust.