Beate Ritz, MD, PhD
Professor, Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences.
About
Her research focuses on the health effects of occupational and environmental toxins such as pesticides, ionizing radiation, and air pollution on chronic diseases. For the past decade, she has studied the effects of air pollution on adverse birth outcomes as well as asthma in children in southern California. She collaborates with neuroscientists, human geneticists, and clinicians at UCLA.