Featured faculty mentors
Featured faculty mentors:
Each DEOHS graduate student works one-on-one with a DEOHS faculty mentor in their area of interest, receiving personalized guidance and support throughout their education.
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Featured: Elena Austin, Timothy V. Larson, Edmund Y. W. Seto
Monitoring air quality in schools
Does ultrafine air pollution infiltrate schools near Sea-Tac Airport? DEOHS researchers partner with cities in South King County to find out.
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Featured: Marissa Baker
Most people can’t work from home
About 75% of US workers are in jobs that can’t be done remotely during the coronavirus pandemic, a new DEOHS analysis finds
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Featured: Yue Cui
Flame retardants and diabetes
New DEOHS research probes how chemical exposures may boost diabetes risk via gut microbes
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Featured: Stephanie Farquhar, Catherine Karr
Fighting children's asthma at home
Indoor air cleaners and education reduced symptoms and hospital visits for rural children with asthma, according to UW study
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Featured: Edward Kasner, Elena Austin, Tania M Busch Isaksen, Edmund Y. W. Seto, June T. Spector
Heat, fire, smoke and health in Washington’s ag industry
DEOHS researchers investigate the combined health effects of wildfire smoke and heat on Washington’s agricultural workforce and test strategies to protect workers and crops
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Featured: Karen Levy
Carving her own path
New UW Associate Professor Karen Levy works across disciplines—and the globe—to explore the intersection between infectious diseases and the environment
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Featured: Esther Min, Catherine Karr
Safer cleaning through comics
DEOHS researchers with Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units develop comic strips in nine languages to promote safer cleaning habits for families
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Featured: Timothy V. Larson, Edmund Y. W. Seto
HEPA air cleaners could prevent deaths from wildfire smoke
A wildfire smoke event in 2020 may have led to nearly 100 deaths in Washington, but there are steps we can take now to avert future deaths, new DEOHS research suggests
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