[Patricia] Flores’ nonprofit partnered with UC Irvine researchers and other community members to study the lead levels in Santa Ana soils. … “I’m a public health professor and, honestly, I give our local public health a failing grade for handling resident concerns about lead,” Alana LeBrón, a UC Irvine assistant professor of public health and Chicano/Latino studies said. “They have been incredibly dismissive of residents’ concerns.”

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