- Post-Doctoral Researcher, Urban Freight Lab
- Freight
- Sustainable transportation
- Emissions and air quality
- Public health
- Environmental epidemiology
Sarah Dennis-Bauer is working on the HEI-funded Managing the Traffic-Related Air Pollution (TRAP) Effects of Urban Warehousing Near Historically Marginalized Communities: A Scenario Analysis of Technology and Land Use Based Strategies project. Her primary role is leading the InMAP air quality modeling and analysis, and related health effect estimation.
Sarah Dennis-Bauer is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington’s Urban Freight Lab. Her educational background is in transportation engineering and public health. Her research interests lie in the intersection of these two fields, with a focus on the freight sector. She is interested in developing data-driven methods to quantify the externalities of the freight sector, and evaluating feasible mitigation strategies for these externalities.
- CUTC Outstanding Student of the Year (Council of University Transportation Centers, 2024)
- Outstanding Student of the Year (National Center for Sustainable Transportation, 2025)
- Best Teaching Assistant Award (UC Davis Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2021)
- B.S. in Public Health from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- M.S. in Epidemiology from the University of California, Davis
- Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Davis
Sarah Dennis-Bauer is a transdisciplinary researcher in transportation engineering and environmental epidemiology. Sarah’s research interests are centered around sustainable freight transportation, specifically focusing on the public health and environmental justice concerns of urban freight. She graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with a BS in Public Health and an MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering. She also has an MS in Epidemiology and a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Davis.
Her recent publications include:
- Dennis-Bauer, S., Jaller, M., Amador, S., and Forscher, E. (2024). Assessing grocery shopping behaviors during a health crisis. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
- Jaller, M., Xiao, R., Dennis-Bauer, S., Rivera-Royero, D., and Pahwa, A. (2023). Estimating last-mile deliveries and shopping travel emissions by 2050. Journal of Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.
- Dennis-Bauer, S. and Jaller, M. (2023). Truck transportation in California: Disaggregating public health costs from criteria pollutants. Journal of Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment.