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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:
- is the director of the NIH-funded and professor in the . 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.
- is an epidemiologist and associate professor in the UShe is leading the B-SAFE survey on how wildfires are affecting pregnant women, new mothers and their babies.