Sarah Henderson

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Sarah Henderson

This past summer, BC was ravaged by wildfires and a record-breaking heat wave. One of the Social Exposome Cluster’s members, Dr. Sarah Henderson, the lead environmental health scientist at the BC Centre for Disease Control has been investigating the effects of wildfires on children’s health. Dr. Henderson is also an associate professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. In an interview with CBC news this summer, Dr. Henderson explained that smoke caused by wildfires is dangerous, especially to pregnant women. In an ongoing study, Dr. Henderson and colleagues’ are assessing the health of pregnant women and their babies who lived in the B.C. interior during forest fires in 2017. 

Watch the full interview with CBC here

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