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Penelope J.E. Quintana is a Professor in the Division of Environmental Health at the Graduate School of Public Health. Her research focuses on exposures in children and vulnerable populations along the US-Mexico border. She has assessed children’s exposure to toxicants found in house dust and surfaces, highlighting the residual tobacco toxicants linked to smoking, known as third-hand smoke. Collaborating with researchers from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Tijuana, she studied the markers of DNA damage in placentas from a Tijuana hospital, focusing on exposure to toxic traffic pollutants affecting pedestrians in lines crossing the US-Mexico border. Quintana authored a recent report that draws attention to the lengthy northbound wait lines of idling vehicles at the US-Mexico Ports of Entry, highlighting it as an environmental justice issue impacting border crossers and local communities. She is a member of the Scientific Guidance Panel for the California Environmental Contaminant Biomonitoring Program.
This entry covers Department of Health Management Policy, Department of Health Management and Policy, Department of Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health, Department of Health Promotion and Behavioral Science, Department of Health Promotion, Department of Environmental Health, Department of Global Health, and Department of Health Promotion Behavioral Science as they all fall under the SDSU School of Public Health MPH programs.