Yu Yu, MD, PhD, is a senior research analyst at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research (CHPR). Currently she is working under the mentorship of Ying-Ying Meng, PhD, with a focus on examining the health impacts of weather and climate with an emphasis on wildfires, including investigating environmental exposure distribution among different groups and identifying which community groups are at greater risk for the sake of reducing health threats, eliminating health disparities, and improving preparedness and response in the environmental and social justice.
Prior to joining UCLA CHPR, Yu worked as a graduate student researcher at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology. Her research was focused on metabolic dysfunction and neuro-degenerative diseases associated with air pollution and noise exposures. Yu also investigated how metabolic dysfunctions and personal lifestyle factors modify the influence of environmental exposures on health outcomes.
Yu received her MD in Shanghai, a MS in Environmental Health Science from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, a Master of Environmental Science and Management (MESM) from UCSB, and a PhD in epidemiology from UCLA.
