We all know air pollution is a health risk. We have invested billions of dollars in the U.S. trying to clean up the problem. But there are still a lot of unanswered questions about exactly what diseases and health conditions are caused by breathing polluted air.
On this edition of UWM Today, we meet a public health expert who has just received a multi-million dollar grant from the federal government to try to come up with answers. Amy Kalkbrenner is an associate professor of Environmental Health Sciences in UWM’s Zilber School of Publlc Health. She recently won a $2.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study whether autism might be caused by air pollution.
