Biennial Report

The department's Biennial Report is published every two years.  Below is the archive of these reports, some of them in downloadable PDFs. For a print copy of a report, please contact the editor.

2009-2011 | 2007-2009 | 2005-2007 | 2003-2005 | 2001-2003 | 1999-2001 | 1997-1999

2009-2011: Striking a Balance

The Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences' 2009-2011 Biennial Report illustrates the diversity and importance of our activities and research. View the report as a digital magazine online. Or download a PDF of the report.

	Striking a Balance The stone sculpture in Jefferson Park that overlooks Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood and Puget Sound reflects the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences' perspective as we look back on the 2009-2011 biennium and forward to future biennia; in a myriad of ways, our goal was and is to strike a balance.
	Research & practice: Finding solutions to better protect workers Our department combines research with service activities to better serve Washington state workers.  The projects highlighted in this section focus on the translation and transfer of research findings, technologies, and information into highly effective practices and products.
	Extending our reach: Partnering to make a difference Department researchers connect with key people and organizations in our region and around the world to improve occupational and environmental health. Learn more about these collaborative projects in the report.
	Preparing for the future: Predicting and managing exposures Public health is a dynamic field. Department scientists balance research on known hazards with investigations of potential risks. Our faculty, staff, students, and alumni share a common concern for environmental and occupational health and a vision for a better, safer future. Read about the research in the full report.
Measuring Our Accomplishments Publications Our department researchers published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and book chapters. Click the thumbnail or the link below to download a PDF of these publications. Honors and Awards Our faculty, staff, students, and alumni are recognized for their achievements with more than 50 local and national awards and honors. Click the thumbnail or the link below to download a PDF of these honors and awards.

2007-2009: Changing Needs, Unchanging Values

• Tackling Welding Hazards
• Occupational Health & Safety
• Protecting Teen Workers
• Keeping School ChildrenSafe
• Determining Sources of Air Pollution in Puget Sound
• Ecogenetics

2005-2007: Research to Practice

• Research to practice
  • Keyboards and mice for the rest of us
  • The serendipity of research
  • Safe last step
  • Biotech—High-tech environmental health
  • Measuring invisible hazards
• Raising awareness of known hazards
  • Silicosis: Ancient disease, new audience
  • In-country training
  • Hard-to-reach audiences
  • Measuring artists' exposures
  • Expanding beyond industrial hygiene
  • Predicting the future for injured workers

2003-2005: Assessing, Managing, and Communicating Risks

• Repetitive stress injuries
  • Preventing the injury
  • Predicting the disability
• Ballard Brass & Aluminum: Consulting, research, and service learning
• Keeping agricultural workers safe
• Penetrating the defenses of the toughest microbes
  • Graduate student goes to Ecuador
• Mysteries of the human-ocean relationship
  • Fire retardants: Life saving, life threatening
  • New center studies interactions
• A risk equation for schools

2001-2003: Our Department's New Name

• Our profession:
  • Who we are and where we are going
  • Scientific frontiers using genomic data
• Tracking children's pesticide exposures
• Glassblowers keep an eye on safety
• Trouble in paradise: How a delicacy can make cooks sick
• Reporting back to industry

1999-2001: Entering a New Millennium

• Understanding fetal alcohol syndrome
• Tracking food-borne illness
• Researching Parkinson's disease
• Preparing teenagers to work safely
• Protecting workers' hearing
• Sensing what's in the air

1997-1999: A Half-Century of Service

• Understanding fetal alcohol syndrome
• Tracking food-borne illness
• Researching Parkinson's disease
• Preparing teenagerers to work safely
• Protecting workers' hearing
• Sensing what's in the air