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. Her work focuses on air pollution exposure assessment, brain health and health equity.

Her projects have included leading mobile monitoring campaigns to characterize population exposures to otherwise poorly measured pollutants. She has also developed air pollution exposure prediction models for use in health studies. Her recent work focuses on how air pollution may contribute to late-life dementia and neuropathologic changes related to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.