Division of Environmental Health
Associate Professor
Phone: 760-768-5500
Office: W165
Email: mperezzavala@sdsu.edu
Education
- PhD, Atmospheric Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2007)
- MS, Environmental Sciences, Tecnológico de Monterrey (2001)
- BS, Mechanical Engineer, Universidad de Guanajuato (1999)
Scholarly Areas
- Human and environmental impacts of air pollution
- Air quality modeling of air pollution and climate change
- Environmental and human risk assessments
Biography
Dr. Miguel Zavala is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at San Diego State University Imperial Valley campus. He received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a M.Sc. from the Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico. He has experience in addressing environmental and public health research questions relevant to underrepresented communities at the US-Mexico border region. His research topics include air quality modeling, low-cost community air sensors, emissions inventory development, source apportionment, air toxics monitoring, characterizing personal exposure and health disparities within local communities, assessing the pollution impacts of US-Mexico Ports of Entry, and others. He has experience engaging and interacting with members from under-represented communities and low-income participants for developing and implementing public outreach activities. His expertise includes the application of air quality models for understanding the physical and chemical processes that drive air pollution and the estimation of air quality and public health impacts, the development and evaluation of criteria, air toxics, and greenhouse gasses emissions inventories of urban areas, the development of novel measurement and analytical techniques to evaluate the impacts of short-lived climate pollutants from key emission sources, evaluation of air quality management programs, and analysis of meteorological processes that control air pollution.
Publications
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