Her research is supported by the newly funded NIH–U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Centers of Excellence on Environmental Health Disparities Research, which aim to address modifiable risk factors contributing to health disparities.34 Other research studies supported by the centers will investigate how environmental exposures contribute to obesity in Latina women, how living in poor-quality housing affects health outcomes in a black cohort, and the combined effects of poverty and air pollution on residents of rural Appalachia and urban Baltimore.
