Los Angeles Daily News | “Residents still waiting for full results of Aliso Canyon disaster health study a decade later”
The Los Angeles Daily News interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Michael Jerrett about the health consequences of the 2015–16 Aliso Canyon gas leak disaster
The Los Angeles Daily News interviewed Dr. Michael Jerrett, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Environmental Health Sciences, and Dr. Kimberly Paul, with the UCLA Department of Neurology, about the UCLA Aliso Canyon Research Disaster Health Research Study.
“In the years since the blowout, people in the community have wondered about whether - and how - the blowout might have affected their health,” Kimberly Paul, an investigator on the UCLA Aliso Canyon Disaster Health Research Study team, (said) recently. “Our results provide evidence that the increase in low–birth-weight babies can be attributed to the gas leak.”
(Jerrett) acknowledged the community’s frustration with the pace of the study but said that’s the nature of scientific inquiries. He said the research team is about 90% on track with the timeline it set for itself.
“Real science takes time,” he said, adding that collecting data and cleaning it is time-consuming. “I don’t think it would be in anybody’s interest to just quickly do rapid reports that aren’t fully thought out and the analyses are questionable.”
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The article also ran in the Orange County Register, Riverside Press-Enterprise, San Bernardino Sun, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Daily Breeze (Torrance), Daily Bulletin (Ontario-Pomona), San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News, and the Whittier Daily News.
