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Gabrielle Eva Husted

PhD Candidate in Geography, University of California-Santa Barbara
Chapter Member: Los Angeles Unified SSN
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Husted's research investigates the interactivity of people, places, and environment (built and natural) as they relate to public health challenges in society. Overarching themes in Husted's writings include social determinants of health, environmental hazards (microplastics, heat, air pollution), and cognitive health. Husted is the lab manager for the UCSB Broom Center for Demography, and she serves as a UCSB Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) mentor.

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Understanding and Reducing Microplastic Exposure

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Publications

"Socio-Demographic Patterning of Urinary Mono-Ethyl Phthalate Levels among Children and Adults in the U.S. (1999–2018)" (with Susan Cassels, Elizabeth Ackert, and Stuart Sweeney). Environmental Research Communications 6 (2024): 085012.

Finds that historically disadvantaged groups—women, Non-Hispanic Blacks, Mexican Americans, Other Hispanics, and those with lower educational attainment—have higher predicted phthalate levels, even when holding all covariates that could be related to differences in phthalate levels by socio-demographic factors constant. Results suggest differences in socio-demographic factors could be leading to unequal exposures to phthalates and MEP excretions in urine.