Area(s) of Interest: Climate change, disease ecology, and health equity
Project(s): My research focuses on the environmental determinants of Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) in California. Specifically, I have been examining how different agricultural land use decisions influence disease distribution, how short- and long-term climatic conditions alter the seasonal dynamics of disease incidence, and how dust conditions mediate pathogen transmission....
Sheiphali Gandhi, MD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco in the Divisions of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, and Allergy Medicine. She is a dual-boarded pulmonologist and occupational/environmental medicine physician, specializing in occupational and environmental respiratory disease. She is the Associate Director of the San Francisco Veteran's Association Post-Deployment Cardiopulmonary Evaluation Network, assessing veterans with military exposures in Southwest Asia. Her research concentrates on...
Area(s) of Interest: air pollution, climate change, and environmental and workplace hazards; public health
Project(s): "Effects of Prenatal Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposure on Children in the Children’s Health and Air Pollution Study Cohort"
Desired Employment: Occupational Medicine in academic and clinical settings; medical directorship; corporate medicine; medical and workplace safety consulting
