Every year, exposure to #AirPollution is estimated to cause 7β£ million premature deaths and result in the loss of millions more healthy years of life.
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The January issue of Open Access Government features our NIEHS T32 trainee eBook "Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and COVID-19". Check out this timely discussion of environmental effects on the pandemic! https://t.co/wLhbaQqjSo @UCDavisEHSC@UCDavisGrad@NIEHS
Dr. Lein says abt her interview with @VoiceOfIslamUK. βIt was interesting to have a 4-minute interview! The point of the interview was to discuss how environmental quality impacts the risk and severity of COVID-19β Thanks for having her and spreading the word abt her article!
COVID-19 has shown us that air quality can be improved overnight, with the best research coming out of Italy. If we contribute to reducing our carbon footprint, small changes can lead to a big impact.
- Dr. Pamela Lein, Professor of Neurotoxicology @lein_lab_ucd#VOIdrivetime
This week our NIEHS @niehs T32 trainees learned about the many COVID19 exposure risks agricultural workers encounter each day on the job. Many thanks to UC Davis @ucdavis Undergraduate Public Health Scholars Sofia, Neha, and Yajaira for an outstanding presentation!
Can environmental pollutants influence COVID-19 health outcomes? Our trainees are researching how environmental exposures in conjunction with other factors may promote COVID-19 susceptibility.
Congratulations to T32 trainee Kelley Patten @kelley_patt on her recent article in Translational Psychiatry identifying neurodevelopmental disorders in a rat model following exposure to traffic-related air pollution in real-time https://t.co/4u8M7UxOXx
Experts from diverse backgrounds give actionable advice for trainees on the early career transition to independence in a free #SOTwebinar on Dec. 16: https://t.co/bP8fv9EOjr
After spending their summer learning about the potential contribution of bisphenols in the development of metabolic disease, our T32 trainees put together an outstanding outreach presentation to a group of UCD students #NIEHS#UCDavis