This year, communities and workplaces in Washington state and beyond faced emerging challenges, including the rising cost of food, power outages linked with extreme weather events, and infectious diseases such as avian flu. Many of our most-read stories of the year reflect our faculty, staff and students’ ongoing work to understand these hurdles and help create solutions.
Magali Blanco
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Magali Blanco wants to understand how air pollution affects the brain. The challenge she faces is that it can be a slow process. For people who live next to a highway, it might take a decade or several to see evidence of the now-established association between exposure to traffic pollution and dementia.
Faculty Member |
Magali Blanco received her PhD in environmental health and MS in occupational and environmental exposure science from the University of Washington, and a BA in biology from Lewis & Clark College. Blanco’s research applies quantitative, data-driven methods to study how environmental exposures affect health.