The first Environmental Health Engineer (PhD in Chemical Engineering, MSc in Civil Engineering, and BSc in Environmental Health Engineering) has joined as a senior lecturer at the Department of Social and preventive Medicine, University of Malaya. She is the only engineer as an academic staff in Faculty of Medicine. Her core expertise is in environmental engineering and has centered almost exclusively on air pollution and health impact. Her ongoing project is funded by UM as a grand challenge project is focusing on Urban Heat Island in greater Kl.