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
The public health doctoral student’s dissertation looks at the community impacts of air pollution in her home neighborhood of Boyle Heights
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 […]
Joint project will investigate their disproportionate impact on vulnerable population
Interdisciplinary research scope expanded to cover a wide range of environmental exposures
Suggested interventions include better air regulation and health screenings
Interdisciplinary researchers will examine impacts on overburdened communities
Scholarship recipient hopes to help improve the environment through engineering
Impacts are most pronounced in Southern California’s low-income communities
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 […]
New assessment from UCI, other institutions used near-real-time data to track emissions