Jeanine M Buchanich

Contributions to Public Health

• I have more than 25 years’ experience in occupational and environmental health epidemiology. I have engaged local communities in projects relating to environmental hazards (e.g., fracking and petrochemical development) and in disparities in life expectancy associated with social, economic, and environmental determinants of health.
  • Buchanich JM, Fabisiak JF, Youk AO, *Tedesco N, Fedor J, Lann MF, Wenzel SE. Severe Asthma Exacerbations Associated with Unconventional Natural Gas Development Activity in Area of High  Development. Journal of Asthma; 2025; DOI: 10.1080/02770903.2025.2483000.
  • Buchanich JM, *Macias RM, Covert HC, *Tedesco N, Ng C, Brywa-Hill B, Lichtveld M, Fabisiak JF. Community Perceptions of Health Risks Associated with An Ethylene Cracker Plant in Beaver County, PA. Journal of Environmental Health; 2025; 87(9), 8–12. https://doi.org/10.70387/001c.137190.
• I have conducted studies using linked administrative databases and vital statistics data to gain a better understanding of overdose mortality and the opioid epidemic. I have used mortality data to describe local, state, and national mortality trends on overdose and have conducted seminal research in overdose mortality. Our research regarding patterns of overdose mortality has been published in Science (Jalal et al., 2018), and in Nature Medicine (Jalal et al., 2020).  
  • Jalal H, Buchanich JM, Roberts MS, *Balmert LC, Zhang K, Burke DS. Changing dynamics of the drug overdose epidemic in the United States from 1979 through 2016. Science. 2018; DOI: 10.1126/science.aau1184
  • Jalal H, Buchanich JM, Sinclair DR, Roberts MS, Burke DS. Age and Generational Patterns of Overdose Death Risk. Nature Medicine. 2020; 26: 699-704. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0855-y.
• I study exposures from occupational and environmental contaminants to understand health outcomes, including mortality and cancer incidence. I served as PI on an assessment of myeloproliferative neoplasms in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Cancer Registry by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the ATSDR. I have also studied patterns of mortality disparities by race and ethnicity (Woolf et al., 2018) as well as risk of adverse birth outcomes (Stacy et al., 2019), amongst others.
  • Woolf SH, Chapman DA, Buchanich JM, *Bobby KJ, Zimmerman EB, Blackburn SM. Changes in Midlife Death Rates Across Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States. British Medical Journal. 2018 July.
  • Stacy SL, Buchanich JM, Ma Z, Mair C, Robertson L, Sharma RK, Talbott EO, Yuan J-M. Maternal obesity, birth size, and risk of childhood cancer development. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2019. doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwz118.
• My funded research has enabled me to mentor/employ two dozen high school, undergraduate, and graduate (MS and PhD) students. I have served as academic advisor, thesis advisor, and on thesis/dissertation committees for more than 70 MS and PhD students in and outside of SPH. I also serve as a mentor to pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and junior faculty members as part of their R and K awards.