Jeanine M. Buchanich, MEd, MPH, PhD

Associate Dean for Research, GSPH, Research Associate Professor, Biostatistics, Director, Center for Occupational Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Director, Biostatistics Consulting Laboratory, Biostatistics
Education & Training
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA | Doctor of Philosophy | 2007
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA | Master of Public Health | 1998
University of Pittsburgh School of Education, Pittsburgh, PA | Master of Education | 1996
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA | Bachelor of Science | 1993
Representative Publications

*Creppage K, Yohannan J, Williams K, Buchanich JM, Songer T, Wisniewski S, Fabio A. The rapid escalation of fentanyl in illicit drug evidence in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 2010-2016. Public Health Reports. 2018; 133(2); 142-146. PMID: 29389251 PMCID: PMC5871138 DOI: 10.1177/0033354917753119. URL

Buchanich JM, *Wooley SM, Lann MF, Marsh GM, Burke DS. Improvement in US Racial Disparities in Years of Life Lost Since 1990. PLOS ONE. 2018; doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194308. URL

Buchanich JM, *Balmert LC, Burke DS. The effect of incomplete death certificates on estimates of unintentional opioid-related overdose deaths in the united states, 1999-2015. Public Health Reports. 2018; DOI: 10.1177/0033354918774330. URL

Burke DS, Buchanich JM. Drug Overdose in Pennsylvania: Measuring, Tracking and Forecasting the Epidemic. Commonwealth: A Journal of Pennsylvania Politics and Policy. 2018; 20 (2-3). DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15367/com.v20i2-3.186. URL

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: Systematic analysis of vital statistics. British Medical Journal. 2018; DOI: 10.1136/bmj.k3096. URL

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. URL

Marsh GM, Buchanich JM, Zimmerman SD, Graves JL, Liu Y. Mortality among United States Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Workers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 2019; DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22943. URL

Slavova S, Delcher C, Buchanich JM, Bunn TL, Goldberger BA, Costich JF. Methodological complexities in quantifying rates of fatal opioid-related overdose. Current Epidemiology Reports. 2019. doi.org/10.1007/s40471-019-00201-9. URL

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. URL

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. URL

Lo-Ciganic WH, Donohue JM, Hulsey EG, Barnes S, Li Y, Kuza CC, Yang Q, Buchanich JM, Huang JL, Mair C, Gellad WF. Integrating social determinants of health with claims data to predict risk of opioid overdose among Medicaid beneficiaries: a machine learning approach. Plos ONE. 2021; doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248360. URL