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Amber Khan and Nicole Errett stand together smiling.

Tackling twin crises in climate and housing

Amber Khan, the 2025 DEOHS Outstanding PhD Student, studies how to keep low-income renters safe during and after disasters

| Deirdre Lockwood

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Five people in safety vests stand in front of a light rail train.

Understanding transit operators’ workplace needs

7 questions for PhD student Pranav Srikanth

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Rachel Shaffer stands in front of the White House in the evening.

DEOHS alum Rachel Shaffer joins White House Council on Environmental Quality

Technical training and freedom to explore at the UW led Shaffer to an EPA role assessing chemical safety and human health

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Shirley Huang stands on the roof of a building holding up a meter to take noise measurements, with a bridge in the background.

Improving air quality in homeless shelters

7 questions for PhD student Ching-Hsuan (Shirley) Huang

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Jorge Rivera-Gonzalez stands in a suit and tie in front of a fence and pasture with cows.

How workplace exposures influence dairy workers' health

8 questions for PhD student Jorge Rivera-Gonzalez

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Two women stand in front of a sign with a Red Cross image and the world "Convezione di Ginevra 22 Agosto 1864"

A swab to stop TB

An easier TB-testing method developed by DEOHS researchers is building momentum in the fight against the disease

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Wildfire smoke behind a mountainous landscape with fields in the foreground.

Indigenous communities in California are disproportionately exposed to wildfire smoke

DEOHS faculty member Joan Casey and colleagues assess long-term exposures to wildfire smoke with an environmental justice lens

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