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air pollution

Connie Valencia

For Connie Valencia, this research is personal

The public health doctoral student’s dissertation looks at the community impacts of air pollution in her home neighborhood of Boyle Heights

UCI’s Shahir Masri is co-first author of study showing how chemical intolerances develop

Shahir Masri, Sc.D., a research specialist in air pollution exposure assessment and epidemiology in UCI’s Program in Public Health, is co-first author of a study that demonstrates evidence of the mechanism for how and why people develop unexplained intolerances to chemicals, foods and drugs. Findings are published online in the journal Environmental Sciences Europe. Although […]

Michael Méndez

UCI researcher gets NSF-backed grant to study wildfires’ effects on farmworkers

Joint project will investigate their disproportionate impact on vulnerable population

Robert Phalen (left), Michael T. Kleinman (right)

UCI Public Health adds the Air Pollution Health Effects Laboratory as key research center

Interdisciplinary research scope expanded to cover a wide range of environmental exposures

Jun Wu, Ph.D., professor of environmental and occupational health at the UCI Program in Public Health

UCI-led study links air pollution exposure while pregnant to higher gestational diabetes risk

Suggested interventions include better air regulation and health screenings

AirUCI institute awarded nearly $2 million to study non-tailpipe vehicle emissions

Interdisciplinary researchers will examine impacts on overburdened communities

Bhumi Tandel’s quest for sustainability

Scholarship recipient hopes to help improve the environment through engineering

Increased use of household fireworks creates a public health hazard, UCI study finds

Impacts are most pronounced in Southern California’s low-income communities

California wildfires disproportionately affect elderly and poor residents, UCI study finds

California’s wildfire burn area has increased by more than 23,000 acres per year over the past two decades, and the number of people who have been adversely affected has nearly doubled. In a paper published recently in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, UCI researchers show that elderly and low-income residents have […]

Pandemic lockdowns caused steep and lasting carbon dioxide decline

New assessment from UCI, other institutions used near-real-time data to track emissions