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Jamie Donatuto, PhD

(she/her)
Clinical Associate Professor
Email: donatuto@uw.edu
Expertise: Safe Food, Sustainable Communities, Climate Change, Environmental Health

About

Jamie Donatuto is an environmental social scientist who has had the honor to work with communities, particularly Indigenous communities, for more than two decades. The projects she leads span a wide breadth of community environmental health topics, including toxics in local foods, health-related impacts from climate change, developing climate adaptive strategies, informal environmental health education based on connections to culturally significant plants and technologies, emergency preparedness and planning, and developing community-based Indigenous health indicators.

Education

  • PhD, Resource Management and Environmental Studies: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 2008

Affiliations

Center for Disaster Resilient Communities
Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics & Environment
Northwest Center for Evidence-Based Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response

Publications

SEE PUBLICATIONS LIST

Engagement

Community and research partnerships

Center for Disaster Resilient Communities

Interdisciplinary Center for Exposures, Diseases, Genomics & Environment

Northwest Center for Evidence-Based Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response

Service

Technical advisory board member, SeaDoc Society

Media Mentions

UW professors earn Fulbright awards for global teaching and research
July 21, 2025 | The Daily | Featured: Jamie Donatuto | View
DEOHS faculty member will be a Fulbright Scholar in Spain
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Jamie Donatuto | View
Four UW researchers named Fulbright Scholars
June 30, 2025 | UW News | Featured: Jamie Donatuto | View
New center helps ready Northwest communities for disasters and public health emergencies
| DEOHS HSM Blog | Featured: Nicole Errett, Resham Patel, Tania M Busch Isaksen, Jamie Donatuto | View