Dr. JinHee Kim

Areas of Expertise

• surveillance of environmental hazards and exposures
• food safety and risk
• primary care medicine
• land use planning policy
• environmental burden of disease

Appointments

Assistant professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Academic Degrees and Accreditations

• Doctor of Medicine, University of British Columbia
• Master of Public Health (Epidemiology), University of Toronto
• Fellow, The Royal College of Physicians of Canada, Public Health and Preventive Medicine
• Member, College of Family Physicians of Canada

PHO Research Interests

• Tracking of environmental hazards, exposures and health outcomes to enhance information for public health action.
• Environmental burden of illness as a means to assess the relative impact of different environmental health issues on the health of the population.
• Approaches to human health risk assessment for environmental hazards.

PHO Research Activities

• public health response to lead exposures
• health impact assessments in environmental health

Selected Publications

1. Peterson E, Aker A, Kim J, Li Y, Brand K, Copes R. Lung cancer risk from radon in Ontario, Canada: how many lung cancers can we prevent? Cancer Causes Control. 2013;24(11):2013-20.
2. Buxton JA, Kim JH. Hepatitis A and hepatitis B vaccination responses in persons with chronic hepatitis C infections: a review of the evidence and current recommendations. Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol. 2008;19(2):197-20.

View more publications by Dr. JinHee Kim on PubMed.gov