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Lara Cushing is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Jonathan and Karin Fielding Presidential Chair in Health Equity at UCLA. Her research focuses on patterns and consequences of social inequalities in exposure to environmental hazards in the United States. She has assessed the health consequences of environmental climate-related exposures on pregnant women and infants, and has investigated questions of environmental justice in the context of air pollution, hazardous sites, urban greenspace, heat islands, oil and gas drilling, drinking water quality, and sea level rise. Cushing is interested in analytical methods and regulatory frameworks to characterize the joint effects of environmental and social stressors on health, informing efforts to reduce environmental health disparities. She is a contributing author for the Fourth Assessment of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and has been an Environmental Fellow with the Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation and a current JPB Environmental Health Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA • Los Angeles, CA
Currently serving as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences.
San Francisco State University • San Francisco, CA
Served on the faculty prior to joining UCLA.
Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.