Long-term, multi-institutional study on health impacts of Los Angeles wildfires launched

C-Solutions is participating in the Los Angeles Fire Human Exposure and Long-Term Health Study (L.A. Fire HEALTH Study), an unprecedented collective scientific effort between four universities to understand the short- and long-term health impacts of recent wildfires over the next decade.  The wildfires that began in early January 2025 killed 29 people, destroyed more than 16,000 structures, and exposed millions to toxic smoke.

The research aims to evaluate which pollutants are present, at what levels, and where, and to assess the respiratory, neurological, cardiovascular, reproductive, and immune system impacts of the wildfires.

The L.A. Fire HEALTH Study is being launched with the support of a visionary gift from the Spiegel Family Fund. This multi-institutional collaboration is a consortium led by researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Davis, and the University of Texas at Austin with expertise in environmental exposure assessment, health outcomes, wildfire risk assessment and management, and data science.