UCLA’s Yifang Zhu’s advice about what drivers can do to avoid pollution exposure on the road in Time Magazine
August 19, 2019Yifang Zhu, a professor of environmental health sciences at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, was quoted in a Time Magazine article about avoiding dangerous levels of pollution while driving. To decrease pollution exposure during long commutes, Zhu recommends changing out a car’s cabin filter every six months to a year and switching on the A/C’s “air recirculation” function. “This shuts down the air exchange between the inside of the vehicle and the outside, and instead uses recirculated air,” she said.
To learn more about Zhu’s research, see her related Sustainable LA Grand Challenge research project.