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Swetland Seminar || Intersections of Redlining, Urban Heat, and Children’s Health

Join us for the monthly Swetland Seminar Series, a free learning opportunity open to the public. Each month we invite a guest to speak about various environmental health topics. Learn more at case.edu/swetland/training/swetland-seminars. Presenter: Eun Kyung Lee, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor State University of New York College of Environmental Science & Forestry Website: https://www.esf.edu/faculty/lee/index... Urban heat islands (UHIs)—areas with elevated temperatures due to dense built environments—intensify during extreme heat events, which are the leading cause of summertime morbidity and mortality. These effects disproportionately impact under-resourced communities in the United States (U.S.). A key contributor to this inequity is redlining, a racially discriminatory federal housing policy from the 1930s-40s that denied home loans in neighborhoods with higher proportions of racial and ethnic minorities. This policy institutionalized disinvestment in “red-lined” areas, shaping contemporary disparities in housing quality, green space access, and environmental exposures, all of which are linked to adverse health outcomes such as asthma and heat-related emergency department (ED) visits. In this talk, preliminary findings will be presented on how racialized housing policies and urban heat intersect to shape pediatric asthma patterns in New York State (NYS), with the goal of informing climate adaptation and equity-focused interventions. September 16, 2025