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Dr. Rob McConnell is a physician and environmental epidemiologist, and Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences and Spatial Sciences. He directs the NIH/Environmental Protection Agency-supported Southern California Children’s Environmental Health Center.

He has studied the effects of air pollution on children’s health, including the development of asthma and lung function deficits, and early markers for cardiovascular disease. Dr. McConnell has investigated susceptibility to the effects of environmental exposures conferred by psychosocial stress and social factors, exercise, genetics and co-exposures associated with housing conditions. He has interest, in...

Education

M.D., University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco
Stanford University