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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 °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â LIVE, hear from two °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â 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.