Our Mission
We aim to understand how everyday social and environmental stress impacts health to inform policies and targeted interventions that improve lung health in historically divested communities.
CLEAR Lab
YPAR
Our summer program for high school students to conceptualize, design, carry out, and analyze a research question that benefits their community.
Toxic Stress
Neeta Thakur, MD, a UCSF assistant professor and pulmonary and critical care physician, is among UCSF researchers working to address negative health outcomes associated with toxic stress.
PEARLS
The PEARL Study combines specimens such as blood samples with parent surveys to screen children for toxic stress.

Opportunity plays a large role in determining where people live, how they are treated, what they are exposed to, and their overall socioeconomic wealth. The CLEAR Lab partners with communities to construct research questions that have health and policy relevance. This includes understanding how risks are geospatially distributed, generating findings that inform policy, and co-creating interventions to improve health.