Aline Maybank

Aline is a first-year MPH student in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Yale School of Public Health. She developed an interest in environmental health after witnessing the effects of the 2021 British Columbian heatwave and forest fires on her community. Aline's primary research interests include the effect of wildfire smoke on air quality and human health outcomes, and community health equity, and climate change mitigation methods. Aline received an Honours Bachelor of Science in Medical and Environmental Sciences from Dalhousie University in 2023, and has pursued research projects in Canada, the United States, and Japan.