
Laura Kwong
Title
Assistant Professor
Department
School of Public Health
Research Group
Email
Research Expertise and Interest
environmental health sciences
Research Description
Laura (Layla) Kwong is an assistant professor in the School of Public Health. Her work with the Global Environmental Health Equity Lab focuses on identifying pathways of disease transmission; developing products and services to reduce exposure to climate change, air pollution, pathogens, and irritants; and evaluating intervention impacts on child health.
In the News
September 1, 2021
Largest study of its kind finds face masks reduce COVID-19
Wearing face masks, particularly surgical masks, is truly effective in reducing the spread of COVID-19 in community settings, finds a new study led by researchers from Yale University, Stanford Medical School, the University of California, Berkeley, and the nonprofit Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA).