Dr. Michael Jerrett: What is the State of the Air Quality Post Wildfires?
Release Date: 02/11/2025
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info_outlineThis week, we welcome Dr. Michael Jerrett, an esteemed professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, to The Hamilton Review Podcast.
It's been just over a month since the devastating wildfires in Los Angeles. In the span of one day, thousands of people lost their homes, thousands were displaced indefinitely and the cities of Altadena and Pacific Palisades were burned to the ground.
The toxins in the air are heavy and the question on everyone's mind is: "How does the air quality impact our health and how do we navigate through this challenging time to keep ourselves and our children safe?"
Dr. Jerrett is an expert in his field and we are honored to have him on the show. To our valuable listeners, you'll want to share this important conversation with your friends and family as we continue to pray for our city.
Dr. Michael Jerrett is an internationally recognized expert in Geographic Information Science for Exposure Assessment and Spatial Epidemiology. He is a professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the Jonathan Fielding Chair in Climate Change and Public Health. Dr. Jerrett earned his PhD in Geography from the University of Toronto (Canada).
For the past 22 years, Dr. Jerrett has researched how to characterize population exposures to air pollution and built environmental variables, how to understand the social distribution of these exposures among different groups (e.g., poor vs. wealthy), and how to assess the health effects from environmental exposures. Over the last decade, Dr. Jerrett has also studied the contribution of the built and natural environment to physical activity, obesity, and several health outcomes. In 2009, the United States National Academy of Science appointed Dr. Jerrett to the Committee on “Future of Human and Environmental Exposure Science in the 21st Century.”
The committee recently concluded its task with the publication of a report entitled "Exposure Science in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy." In 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency appointed Dr. Jerrett to the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Sub-Committee for Nitrogen Oxides.
From 2014 to the present, Dr. Jerrett has been named to the Thomson Reuters List of Highly Cited Researchers, indicating he is in the top 1% of all authors in the fields of Environment/Ecology in terms of citation by other researchers.
Dr. Michael Jerrett at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
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