'An Unequal Air Pollution Burden at School'

CHI Director Dr. Susan Anenberg, Professor and Chair of Environmental and Occupational Health in the Milken Institute School of Public Health, was quoted in a NASA feature entitled 'An Unequal Air Pollution Burden at School.' This feature centers a study led by Cheeseman et al. 2022 that uses satellite data to examine disparities in air pollution levels experienced by public school students across the U.S. Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a gaseous pollutant known to impact lung function and increase the risk of respiratory illness, had the strongest relationship between race/ethnicity and measurements of air pollution.“We see a stronger relationship with NO2 because it is so short-lived and tends to be highest close to emission sources,” said Anenberg.