It’s Getting Hot in Here 🔥: Climate and Health Series

“Environmental Exposures, Neighborhoods, and Health: From Mortality to Children’s Health”

Antonella Zanobetti, PhD, MS, Core Member, Center for Climate, Health, and Healthcare and Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

This presentation provides an overview of my research examining how air pollution, temperature, and other environmental exposures affect human health. I will highlight findings from studies examining mortality, neurodegenerative disorders, and children’s health focusing on the effects of air pollution, temperature, greenspace, and other environmental exposures, as well as neighborhood characteristics. Together, these studies illustrate how environmental exposures and neighborhood context influence health across populations and stages of life. Understanding how environmental and neighborhood exposures influence health is essential for identifying vulnerable populations, developing effective prevention strategies, guiding urban planning and environmental policy, and reducing health disparities and the growing burden of environmentally related disease and premature mortality.