Publication: LAist

UCLA Expert: David Eisenman: David Eisenman: Professor-in-Residence, Department of Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health; Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine; Director, Center for Public Health and Disasters; Deputy Director for Community Partnerships, Center for Healthy Climate Solutions

Michael Jerrett: Professor, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health; Co-Director, Center for Healthy Climate Solutions; Member, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Faculty, Center for Occupational & Environmental Health; Chair, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health 

Diane Garcia-Gonzales: Youth Initiative Director, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Finance and Administrative Coordinator, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Yu Yu: Postdoctoral Researcher, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Synopsis: L.A’s first chief heat officer, Marta Segura, said improved extreme heat data, including the heat map put together by UCLA researchers, has also helped the city pinpoint where more cooling centers are needed.

UCLA News: The city of Los Angeles, in partnership with David Eisenman, Diane, Garcia-Gonzalez and Yu Yu has crunched data of which cooling centers were most used and which ones weren’t used much at all last year. 

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