Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Rebecca Saari is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Global Change, Atmosphere, and Health, and an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ. Her research advances the field of health impact assessment by using coupled human-natural systems (CHANS) models to identify policies – for mitigation and adaptation – that robustly and equitably protect health from air pollution under a changing climate.Â
Keywords: Environmental Inequality; Health/Economic Effects of Air Pollution; Sustainable Infrastructure; Lifecycle Assessment; Modelling Atmospheric Impacts; Optical Measures of Atmospheric Composition; Air Pollution; Climate Change; Human Health