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What do you think environmental health means?

According to the American Public Health Association, most Americans can’t give an accurate answer for it’s one of those underrated yet complex fields of public health. With Yiqun Ma, a pre-doctoral fellow at the Yale School of Public Health concentrating in climate change and health, we discuss the importance of environmental health.

We specifically talk about how a particular aspect of public health, the air, correlates with adverse temperatures, wildfires, and racial disparities.

• Link to Yiqun Ma Profile: https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/yiqun-ma/?tab=bio
• Link to Article about her Wildfire Research: https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/canadian-wildfire-smoke-associated-with-increased-asthma-cases-in-nyc/

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00:00: Intro
2:07: Definition of Environmental Health and Climate Change
5:55: Jiangsu Province Research on Adverse Temperatures
10:32: Wildfires
14:31: Racial Disparities and Air Pollution
22:32: Yale’s and Government’s Role in Bolstering Enviornmental Health
26:30: Conclusion