How can we chart a safer path forward in the wake of the historic LA fires? UCLA’s C-Solutions hosted the first annual LA Fire Research Conference to answer that question — convening researchers from across the U.S., agencies and survivors. The first annual LA Fire Health Research Conference was held on Jan. 14 at Covel Commons on the UCLA […]
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CalHeatScore, a new online mapping tool from California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), is giving communities a clearer way to understand heat danger, similar to what the Saffir–Simpson scale did for hurricanes. The platform ranks extreme heat health risk for every California ZIP code on a simple 0–4 scale, delivers warnings days in advance, and lets […]
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An ‘invisible disaster’: Aliso Canyon gas blowout is affecting residents’ long-term mental health
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A decade after the 2015–2016 Aliso Canyon gas blowout, described as the largest methane leak in U.S. history, UCLA and NYU researchers report that residents of Porter Ranch and nearby communities are still experiencing lasting mental health effects. Drawing on six focus groups with people who lived within five miles of the wellhead, residents described […]
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CalHeatScore is launched: California’s first health-based heat warning system
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California has launched CalHeatScore, a new statewide tool led by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to rank extreme-heat health danger by ZIP code and link people to nearby cooling resources and safety guidance. The pilot system sorts risk into four categories (mild to severe) and is meant to drive clearer public messaging […]
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Long-term, multi-institutional study on health impacts of Los Angeles wildfires launched
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Featured by UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
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Smoke from California wildfires caused over 50,000 premature deaths over 11 years
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C-Solutions research featured in the San Francisco Chronicle
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Mapping Vulnerable Populations in California to Climate-Related Hazards Drs. Miriam Marlier, UCLA Assistant Professor and C-Solutions Faculty Associate, and Michael Jerrett, UCLA Professor and C-Solutions Co-Director, have been awarded research funding under the new NASA ROSES Equity and Environmental Justice (EEJ) program that aims to advance progress on equity and environmental justice domestically through the […]
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UCLA Heat Maps featured in the Los Angeles Daily News
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UCLA Heat Maps featured in the Los Angeles Times
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UCLA Fielding School Project Shows Health Effects of Extreme Heat Across California at the Community Level
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UCLA Heat Maps featured in Science News Net