The Engineering Environmental Equity Lab (E³ Lab) conducts data-driven, community-centered research to identify and address disparities in air pollution exposure and health impacts. Grounded in environmental justice principles, our work spans both urban and rural communities, focusing on who may be most affected by pollution and face systemic burdens.
We develop and evaluate engineering solutions at the intersection of equity, environment, and public health—leveraging air quality monitoring, interventions using green infrastructure, and statistical and spatial modeling tools. By integrating environmental health and engineering we advancing equitable air quality research and engineering solutions in design and infrastructure.
Christina H. Fuller is an Associate Professor in the University of Georgia College of Engineering. She earned master’s and doctoral degrees in environmental health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering from Northwestern University. Dr. Fuller conducts research on environmental health and justice. She has expertise in exposure science and epidemiology, which she uses to investigate air pollution exposure, pollution reduction strategies, health disparities and social-environmental interactions.
Jingting earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Utah and her M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Nevada, Reno. Since February 2024, she has been a Postdoctoral Associate in the Engineering Environmental Equity (E3) Lab at the University of Georgia. There, she leads air quality modeling efforts using sophisticated atmospheric models (WRF-SMOKE-CMAQ) to assess the impacts of prescribed fire smoke on diverse communities across the southeastern U.S. By integrating atmospheric modeling with demographic and geospatial data, Jingting aims to inform equitable and effective seasonal burn planning strategies. In her free time, she enjoys playing drums, photography in national parks, discovering new cooking recipes, and spending quality time with her two cats, Bambi and Butter.
Dr. Abhay Anand M. V. recently joined the University of Georgia (UGA) as a Post-doctoral Fellow. His major research interests are measurement and modeling of environmental pollution exposures and their subsequent health effects, with a particular focus on air and noise pollution exposures. He has extensive experience and expertise in the spatio-temporal analysis and prediction modeling of the environmental exposures. Prior to UGA, he was a Post-doctoral Fellow at UConn Health, where his work focused on the acute health effects of traffic-related air and noise pollution exposures.
Kimberly Adeoti is a second-year master’s student in Environmental Engineering at the University of Georgia. Although she holds an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering, her interest in the environmental side of the field began before graduation, especially through projects that exposed her to the world of pollutant exposures and their disproportionate effects on low-income communities.
Her current research focuses on black carbon emissions from prescribed fires, examining how location and meteorological conditions influence pollutant concentrations. Kimberly is passionate about air quality and environmental justice and is particularly driven to understand and communicate how pollutants like PM and black carbon impact vulnerable populations.
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