Sandy Eckel

Associate Professor in Biostatistics @KeckMedUSC
Passionate about biostatistics education;
Applications/methods for environmental epi & climate change

[Sandy Eckel @sandy_eckel]

An important reminder that EVs are a transportation choice that improve the quality of the air that you, your family, and your neighbors breathe. And it's pretty amazing that we can see these improvements in air quality from space!

[Keck School of Medicine of USC @KECKSchool_USC]

Electric vehicles are cleaning our air right now. 🚗

For every 200 EVs added to a neighborhood, nitrogen dioxide pollution dropped 1.1%. @sandy_eckel PhD, and Erika Garcia, PhD, MPH @uscpphs used satellite data to track this across CA from 2019-23. https://t.co/0cZhRD9GaJ

[Keck School of Medicine of USC @KECKSchool_USC]

Electric vehicles are cleaning our air right now. 🚗

For every 200 EVs added to a neighborhood, nitrogen dioxide pollution dropped 1.1%. @sandy_eckel PhD, and Erika Garcia, PhD, MPH @uscpphs used satellite data to track this across CA from 2019-23. https://t.co/0cZhRD9GaJ

[Sandy Eckel @sandy_eckel]

Graduating with your PhD, and want to make a difference in climate and health? Apply to this USC postdoc position with Dr. Erika Garcia and myself! Learn more at https://t.co/D6out9YpNq (REQ20155892).

[Population and Public Health Sciences at USC @uscpphs]

USC-led CLIMA Center led by @RimaHabre_ScD awarded $4.1 million by @NIH to study impact of wildfire smoke and extreme heat on human health.
@KECKSchool_USC @USC @ResearchAtUSC @RNBluthenthal
https://t.co/3nz2R7LvHb

[Dr Maria Neira @DrMariaNeira]

Health is THE argument for climate action. 🫀

@COP29_AZ @WHO @RockefellerFdn @wellcometrust @JeremyFarrar @GCHAlliance @DiarmidCL @MazzucatoM

https://t.co/sfUSFUZsGn

[Sandy Eckel @sandy_eckel]

Graduating with your PhD, and want to make a difference in climate and health? Apply to this new USC postdoc position in Environmental Epi with Drs. Erika Garcia and myself! Apply at: https://t.co/GsT7tcNsQ7
@uscpphs @KECKSchool_USC @USCEnviroHealth @USCBiostat

[USC Enviro Health @USCEnviroHealth]

🔎 The Salton Sea is rapidly drying, exposing more lakebed & increasing wind-blown dust in nearby communities. This dust contains harmful particles like toxic metals, leading to public health concerns especially for children in the area.#SaltonSea #EnvironmentalJustice #CCVHealth

[Sandy Eckel @sandy_eckel]

@designrulesco @metrolosangeles I would love to buy a poster of this!

[Environmental Epidemiology @EnvironEpidem]

The future of climate health research: An urgent call for equitable action- and solution-oriented science https://t.co/3DMqW7HQru

[Population and Public Health Sciences at USC @uscpphs]

Faculty member @TracyBastain and team conducted the first U.S.-based study examining the link between prenatal fluoride and childhood social, emotional and behavioral functioning. Read their findings here:
@madrescenter
https://t.co/CyJqovk4Ur

[Metro Los Angeles @metrolosangeles]

Our GoPass Fareless Pilot Program for students in L.A. County was made permanent today by the Metro Board of Directors.

[U.S. EPA @EPA]

EPA’s final car standards are a win for the environmental and public health! They will slash greenhouse gas and other harmful air pollution #emissions from passenger cars and trucks.

https://t.co/8GcePEcd6m

[Little Things Matter @littlethingsmtr]

Researchers at @USCEnviroHealth @KECKSchool_USC found that ER visits for asthma dropped in neighborhoods with more zero-emissions vehicles – including battery electric, plug-in hybrid, and hydrogen fuel cell cars. @sandy_eckel @USCBiostat @uscpphs

[Sandy Eckel @sandy_eckel]

@bryan_gallion @NBCNews Bryan, yes I took these photos myself this morning at Union Station in downtown LA. You may use them in your reporting.

[Sandy Eckel @sandy_eckel]

Los Angeles Union Station: ankle-high rain boots are a requirement this morning, but otherwise my A-line commute was totally normal -thank you! @metrolosangeles @metrolaalerts

[Sandy Eckel @sandy_eckel]

@da12vid I was grateful I wore my rainboots!

[Sandy Eckel @sandy_eckel]

@da12vid Yes, I took the pics as I entered the tunnel below the A-line platform. The tunnel serves many train lines. There is a large team in place working to bail out the water - it is partially working. Flooding has been worse in other years

[Sandy Eckel @sandy_eckel]

@da12vid You may use these photos, and yes I took them myself. Sandy Eckel (she/her).

[Sandy Eckel @sandy_eckel]

@da12vid David, these photos were taken at 6:34am this morning in Union Station in Downtown LA. I got no instructions from officials as I had come off local transit (A-line), but heard that folks taking MetroLink trains were routed outside and around the flooding.