Speaker:	Dr. Anjum Hajat
Institution:	Department of Epidemiology
	University of Washington
Seminar Date:	Thursday, May 13th, 2021, 3:30-4:50 PM

Decades of research has shown that air pollution and other environmental hazards are unequally distributed, disproportionately impacting communities of color and the poor. These communities also face more psychosocial stressors, health risk factors and fewer protective factors resulting in increased vulnerability to the negative health effects of air pollution and causing environmental health disparities. In this talk I will present evidence about the unequal distribution of air pollution. Then I will share research that demonstrates how environmental factors and psychosocial stressors share biological pathways and how they act synergistically to result in negative health outcomes.