Watch this live webinar, which took place on July 22, 2025, with health experts from the LA Fire HEALTH Study, moderated by Jane Lawton Moore from Eaton Fire Residents United (EFRU). Scientists and physicians from LA Fire HEALTH discussed the health impacts of the LA fires and answered questions from the audience.

We were excited to also be joined by Ruben Juarez and Dr. Alika Maunakea from the University of Hawaii, who discussed some of the lessons learned from the Maui wildfires in 2023.

Expert Panelists:

• Joseph Allen, Professor of Exposure Assessment Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Susan Cheng, Erika J. Glazer Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Health and Population Science, Cedars Sinai
• Rima Habre, Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences and Spatial Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC
• Alika Maunakea, Professor, Department of Anatomy, Biochemistry and Physiology (ABP), John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
• Ruben Juarez, Co-founder of the Maui Wildfire Exposure Study; Professor of Economics, University of Hawaii
• Michael Levine, Emergency Medicine & Toxicology, UCLA Health
• Kari Nadeau, Chair of the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Physician at the Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston

Moderated by:

• Jane Lawton Potelle, Eaton Fire Residents United