Allan Just, an associate professor in IBES and the School of Public Health, was interviewed about how extreme heat and poor air quality work synergistically to harm human health.
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Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
Allan Just
Nazareth-Ferguson Family University Associate Professor of Public Health, Associate Professor of Epidemiology & Environment and Society
Research Interests
Climate and health, Remote sensing, Air pollution, Epigenomics, Endocrine disruptors, Children's environmental health
Biography
Allan Just's research investigates how better estimates of the quality of the air we breathe and the temperature in our neighborhoods reveal previously underestimated exposure disparities and health impacts.
Recent News
The New York Times
Take a Deep Breath? How Bad Air Affects Your Marathon Finish Time
Allan Just, Associate IBES and Epidemiology Professor, and Joseph Braun, Professor of Epidemiology and an IBES Faculty Fellow, are among the authors of a study finding that poor air quality negatively affects marathon finish times.
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Ten years of research projects, countless ideas, one shared mission: to build a sustainable future.
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IBES Fellow Joseph Braun – a professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Climate, Environment & Health – spoke about the new center's research and whether the current presidential administration could affect its work.
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During a campus conversation to celebrate the launch of the Center for Climate, Environment and Health, panelists explored the impacts of climate change on human health and the research that will drive life-saving solutions.
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IBES and Epidemiology Associate Professor Allan Just led the development of this state-of-the-art national spatiotemporal exposure model, which reconstructs daily particulate air pollution estimates for use in a wide range of health studies.
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