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* Oct. 22, 11 a.m. — Since 2017, California has seen a worsening series of fire seasons — with 2020 setting a record of more than 4 million acres burned. Tens of thousands of people have had to flee their homes — in some cases, more than once — and millions have been exposed to some of the worst air quality in the world. 

This week on ºÙºÙÊÓƵ LIVE, hear from two ºÙºÙÊÓƵ public health experts who have been studying how fires and smoke affect people, including pregnant moms and infants.

The guests:

• Irva Hertz-Picciotto is director of the NIH-funded ºÙºÙÊÓƵ Environmental Health Sciences Center and professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences, ºÙºÙÊÓƵ School of Medicine. Following the 2017 fires in Napa and Sonoma she established the Wildfires and Health: Assessing the Toll in NorthWest California (WHAT-NOW) survey to look at the effects of wildfire on people’s mental and physical health. 
• Rebecca Schmidt is an epidemiologist and associate professor in the ºÙºÙÊÓƵ Department of Public Health Sciences. She is leading the B-SAFE survey on how wildfires are affecting pregnant women, new mothers and their babies.

The conversation, hosted by Soterios Johnson, will be streamed live on ,  and beginning at 11 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 22.  

Questions can be submitted via Facebook and Twitter either in advance or during the show.