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Summer 2019. UCLA Summer Research Program students on the Great Wall of China.

JRI Air Quality Research Highlighted


A recent publication highlighted the risk of spending time in highly polluted cities.


A recent publication highlighted the risk of spending time in highly polluted cities. Using JRI UCLA Summer Research Program students as study participants, UCLA Professors Yifang Zhu, UCLA School of Public Health and Dr. Jesus Araujo, Medicine and Director of Environmental Cardiology, examined the health impacts of the students' time in Beijing. Luckily for the students, once they returned to Los Angeles, most of the negative health effects largely reversed.

Read the full story here: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/planning-trip-abroad-you-pack-check-air-pollution-levels.