A story published in UC San Diego Today on September 3rd titled “Heat Waves Amplify Existing Inequities. Meet the Researchers Working to Change That.” spotlights researchers across the UC San Diego campus working in a variety of fields, but with a common research through line: understanding inequalities in the impacts of heat and finding solutions that will protect at-risk populations.

One of the researchers spotlighted is the Heat Hub’s own Tarik Benmarhnia, of the Climate Change Epidemiology Lab, whose work on the combined health impacts of extreme heat and wildfire smoke was published earlier this year. Check out the full story on the UC San Diego Today website.

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