ALERT (Assessment of Local Environmental Risk Training to Reduce Health Disparities) is a community training and research partnership to support community efforts to combat disproportionate exposure to air pollution among vulnerable populations. The ALERT curriculum is designed to build the capacity of community representatives to understand and analyze environmental health data, develop action plans, establish … [ Read full post ]
‘ALERT’ Archive
New tool helps community groups better understand and analyze environmental health data
Monday, April 15th, 2013
LA Times article: Contrasting views that pollution will be reduced once rail yard is built near LA harbor
Monday, October 22nd, 2012The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) is proposing to build a new rail yard called the Southern California International Gateway (the SCIG) on property owned by the Port of Los Angeles, according to yesterday’s LA Times article.
The article mentions the Port of Los Angeles, drafted a report called the “… [ Read full post ]
UCLA’s ALERT project informs residents on harmful air pollution
Monday, May 7th, 2012A UCLA Center for Health Policy Research project that educates residents about air pollution and its impact on their neighborhood’s health is featured in UCLA Today, the university’s faculty and staff newspaper.
The ALERT (Assessment of Local Environmental Risk Training) project is part of the Center’s Health DATA Program and targets two neighborhoods that bear … [ Read full post ]
Boyle Heights “ground-truths” the facts about air pollution
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Boyle Heights is a community (located in Los Angeles) that is surrounded by freeways, railroads, auto repair shops, warehouses and factories — all of which can pose potential health hazards. According to Manuel Pastor, an expert in environmental justice, “when you put them all clustered together in one neighborhood, you wind up with sort … [ Read full post ]
Eden Flynn: Community residents take research into their own hands
Thursday, December 8th, 2011Eden Flynn works as a Graduate Student Researcher for the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and is the Curriculum Coordinator and Trainer for the Center’s ALERT project in the Health DATA Program. In the article, she discusses the importance of partnerships between researchers, community members and policy makers and how those collaborations can … [ Read full post ]
Asthma: An entire family sick, a mother’s campaign
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011By Jazmin Zane, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Health DATA Program
Martha Cota remembers her son’s fight for life. She can still see his purple lips and nails. She can still hear the awful sound of hospital respirators.
That was 20 years ago. The culprit? Asthma. It had put her son in the hospital. … [ Read full post ]
