UCLA scientists are embarking on a comprehensive, five-year study to understand the health consequences of what is, to this day, the nation’s largest natural gas blowout. From 2015-16, an estimated 109,000 metric tons of methane was released into the air from the Southern California Gas Company’s Aliso Canyon underground gas storage facility in the San Fernando Valley.
On Nov. 1, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health awarded roughly $21 million to UCLA to conduct a wide-ranging assessment of the disaster.
A team of UCLA researchers has been awarded $20,993,333 by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to conduct the Aliso Canyon Disaster Health Research Study.
A professor emeritus at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health has been honored with one of the National Academy of Medicine’s highest awards for his work as a leader in environmental health.
The world’s most influential researchers include 39 UCLA scholars - and five of them are faculty at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Q. What inspired you to write this book? At what scale can one person’s dietary decisions really help to combat global climate change?
AS A REGISTERED DIETITIAN who sees patients at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Dr. Dana Ellis Hunnes (MPH ’07, PhD ’13) is dedicated to improving people’s health by counseling them on the foods they eat.
CLIMATE CHANGE CONTINUES to wreak havoc on the health of the planet and its inhabitants. “This is an escalating health emergency,” says Dr.
Dr. Michels has expertise in epidemiologic methods, and epigenetic, nutritional, and cancer epidemiology. Her research focuses on women's health.
Dr. Michels is one of the co-founders of the area of epigenetic epidemiology and has made seminal contributions to the methods used in this field. Her research addresses the role of epigenetics in the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD). The Michels' lab studied the impact of events during perinatal life on the establishment of the epigenome.
Education
- PhD, Biostatistics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- ScD, Epidemiology, Harvard University, Boston, MA
- MPH, Harvard University, Boston, MA
- MS, Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
- MS, Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY
- BS Equivalent, University of Freiburg Medical School, Freiburg, Germany
Dr. Yifang Zhu serves as professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences. She graduated from Tsinghua University in 1997 and received her Ph.D. in Environmental Health Sciences from UCLA in 2003. Her research interest is primarily in the field of air pollution, climate change, environmental exposure assessment, and aerosol science and technology.
Education
- PhD, Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health, CA
- BS, Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Dr. Vergara developed her interest in occupational and environmental epidemiology at UCLA. Prior to graduate school, she worked over ten years in analytical chemistry laboratories within private industry. She draws from over ten years of epidemiologic experience focused on rare neurodegenerative diseases and childhood cancers, she has a keen interest in exposure assessment and epidemiologic methods within the context of occupational and environmental epidemiology studies.
Education
- PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MPH, Environmental Health Sciences/Industrial Hygiene, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- AB, Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL