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Erica Fuhrmeister smiles holding a micropipet in a lab.

Taking a metagenomic approach to antimicrobial resistance

DEOHS Assistant Professor Erica Fuhrmeister explores how environmental factors influence antimicrobial resistance

| Lisa Hayward Watts

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Houses in the foreground with smoke on a hillside rising into the air, with the LA skyline and mountains in the background.

How cuts to climate research could impact community health

Understanding climate change’s impact on health is critical to keeping communities safe, says DEOHS faculty member Joan Casey

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Judit Marsillach and Hannah Dye stand together in front of a research poster.

Understanding children’s asthma in farming communities

DEOHS MS student Hannah Dye wins Castner Award to assess environmental impacts on children’s health in farming communities

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Kathleen Moloney and Evan Mix stand outside with their backs against a brick wall.

New digital tool will help assess emergency preparedness

DEOHS researchers create new tool to improve emergency preparedness assessments for Washington state

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Four people (Hannah Dye, Jenielle Domaoal, Judit Marsillach and Elijah Scott) stand together smiling inside in front of a window, with a tall building outside in the background.

DEOHS students celebrated at Society of Toxicology meeting

Our award winners’ toxicology research probes the health impacts of e-cigarettes, flame retardants, diesel exhaust and more

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Person wearing pink sweater holds an asthma inhaler in one hand and red cap in the other.

Children exposed to higher ozone levels early in life are more likely to develop asthma

DEOHS grad student Logan Dearborn says findings are significant due to burden of chronic disease

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Person dressed in black wearing a purple hat and red backpack crouches on a rocky shoreline with trees in distance.

Dual degree alum explores the crossover between public health and planning

Meg Hamele, MPH/MUP ’23 helps Seattle plan for community health needs following disasters

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