On June 6, the University of Washington Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics, and Environment (EDGE) hosted its annual center symposium in Seattle. The theme for the event was “Enhancing Equitable University/Community Partnerships.” Over 60 faculty, staff, trainees and community partners attended, representing several UW departments as well as the wider Seattle community.
In February 2024, the University of Washington Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics & Environment (EDGE) awarded grants totaling $40,000 to each of four projects with exceptional promise through its pilot projects program.
As a colossal emitter of carbon, air pollution, and noise—often in patterns that exacerbate inequities—the aviation industry is a prime target for reforms to promote environmental health and social justice.
Seattle city officials are vowing to increase access to COVID-19 vaccines among people of color, immigrants and other groups disproportionately left out of vaccination efforts.
As students in King County public schools log into their online classes this winter, researchers from the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS) are stepping into their temporarily empty classrooms to study air quality.
UW EDGE Center researchers have been awarded a COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant from the UW Population Health Initiative. The grant, which was matched by the School of Public Health, will fund research into disparities in COVID-19 testing and health outcomes in King County, with a focus on cumulative impacts in low-income, minority, and health-compromised communities. The research team includes DEOHS Clinical Professor Stephanie Farquhar, Associate Professor Edmund Seto, Ph.D. student Esther Min, and EDGE Center Community Engagement Manager BJ Cummings.
Multilingual messages and resources now available from Public Health – Seattle & King County: STAY HOME – STAY HEALTHY.
Thanks to our partners Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition and ECOSS, video messages about the novel coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) are now available from the UW EDGE Center in *nine* languages:
How, in the name of science, does Esther Min, a graduate student in the University of Washington Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS), end up at a six-hour-long dinner in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan with members of George Soros' Open Society Foundation?
This results newsletter was created to inform community participants about the results of a study they were involved in to measure diesel emissions in five different Seattle neighborhoods. Figures show wide disparities in pollution levels within Seattle. Information about the health impacts of air pollution is also included.
