Casey and Wilner’s Research on Health Effects of 2025 LA Fires Featured in UW Today
Posted: 12/4/2025 (CSDE in the News)
Research by CSDE Affiliate Joan Casey (Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences) and CSDE Trainee Lauren Wilner on how the 2025 Los Angeles fires affected people’s health and how people navigated the health care system during an emergency was recently highlighted by UW Today. The underlying article was published in JAMA Health Forum. Casey, Wilner, and coauthors found that there were 8,032 excess outpatient respiratory visits and 3,375 excess virtual cardiovascular and respiratory visits, representing 27% to 44% higher than expected visits among the highly and moderately exposed groups exposed over the week following the LA fires’ ignition. Outpatient and virtual cardiovascular, injury, and neuropsychiatric visits were also elevated at the same time.