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Five people sit around a round table with a white tablecloth with papers, crayons, plastic water bottles. One person in a headscarf is speaking and the others are listening.

Toxic chemicals may be hiding in traditional eyeliners

Through community collaboration, research from the UW and the Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County finds elevated lead levels in traditional eyeliners

| Hazardous Waste Management Program in King County

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Air pollution and autism

New DEOHS study shows how exposure to air pollution early in life may lead to autism

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Photo of Roundup herbicide product. Photo via Alamy.

Can Roundup cause cancer?

New study from DEOHS researchers finds exposure to commonly used weed killer increases risk of some cancers

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Photo of Roundup herbicide product. Photo via Alamy.

Can Roundup cause cancer?

New study from DEOHS researchers finds exposure to commonly used weed killer increases risk of some cancers

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Image of the Pestisafe app on a cell phone.

Bilingual app to keep farmworkers safe

First-of-its-kind mobile app developed by DEOHS provides pesticide safety information in Spanish

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Feels like home

Brianna Willis, SPH master’s fellowship winner, forges a new path in One Health

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Professor David Eaton, right, pictured with David Kalman and Michael Yost.

Public health change-maker

Forty years after launching the DEOHS toxicology program, Professor David Eaton will retire

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