Research:

Interests: Pediatric environmental health. Air pollution. Asthma. Pesticides. Global children's environmental health. Farmworker health. Community-engaged research.

Her research areas include environmental contaminants and pediatric respiratory health including asthma, health of farmworker children and global children's environmental health. Much of her research utilizes community-engaged research approaches. She shares leadership of a large pregnancy cohort as part of the NIH Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes program. She is affiliated with the Pacific Northwest Center for Agricultural Safety and Health and the Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Disease, Genetics and the Environment. Dr. Karr has a general pediatric practice at the UW Pediatric Clinic at Roosevelt and also provides specialty pediatric environmental medicine consultation at this site and at Harborview Medical Center. As Director of the NW Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (PEHSU), she sets the direction for outreach and education as well as responding to queries from health care providers, government officials and families regarding health risks associated with environmental exposures.