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Bhavna Shamasunder
Associate Professor and Chair, Urban and Environmental Policy
B.S./B.A., UC San Diego; M.ES., Yale University; Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Department Chair, Urban & Environmental Policy
Appointed In
2011
Office
UEPI 202
Hours
Tuesdays 1-2pm via Zoom by appointments only and Wednesdays 12:30-1:30pm drop-in. Please click My Calendar link to sign up.

Bhavna Shamasunder teaches and conducts research at the intersection of environmental health & justice with a focus on inequalities in chemical exposures faced by low-income communities and communities of color who live and work in urban and/or industrial environments.

Read our research;

Read our letter to the LA City Council re: Oil and Gas Extraction in Los Angeles and Public Health Evidence 

Read our paper on 

Research Interests

Environmental Justice, Environmental Health, Community Engaged Research, Chemical Exposures and Policy, Inequality, Social Movements. 

Current Research Projects

. This project is funded by the National Science Foundation's Science, Technology, and Society Division. 

Do you identify as a woman living in California between the ages of 18-49? If so,

funded by the .  Our co-PI on this project is  and co-investigators are and , George Washington University, School of Public Health.  

The Environmental Injustice of Beauty

Environmental Justice impacts from oil extraction and new unconventional drilling practices in Los Angeles  (check out the video by the  on the ) 

Energy Justice; Environmental Justice Based Approaches to Renewable Energy Landscapes