Pargoal Arab

Pargoal is an MPH student in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health. Her research interests include climate change, air pollution, energy transition, and heat impacts. Pargoal was a Climate Equity Associate at the Clean Air Task Force for two years. She researched the role of conventional air pollutants and their impacts on communities in the just clean energy transition context. She received a master's in Climate Science and Policy from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). At UCSD, she completed a capstone on how COVID-19 policies impacted particulate matter (PM2.5) levels with environmental justice implications. She graduated in 2020 from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in atmospheric and oceanic sciences. At UCLA, Pargoal's project included researching the impact of wildfire smoke plumes on PM2.5.