Pediatric Grand Rounds - Fires and Environmental Health

Dr. Gina Solomon is chief of the UCSF Division of Occupational, Environmental and Climate Medicine. Her research focuses on community and worker exposure to toxic chemicals and other contaminants in drinking water and air. She has also studied heat-related illness, wildfire smoke, harmful algal blooms and other hazards related to climate change. Several of her research projects have focused on community health after environmental disasters, including Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 and the California Camp Fire in 2018.