As climate change threatens to worsen environmental health disparities in vulnerable communities, UC Irvine has started a center dedicated to researching and advancing environmental justice issues. Public health professors Jun Wu and Alana LeBrón will lead the center. … “Our main goal is to establish an environmentally just society where Black and other disadvantaged communities will thrive with health equity,” Wu said.

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