Health & Safety Matters: The DEOHS blog
Featured Story
![Amalawa, Marissa and Hunt pose after Marissa accepted her award.](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_full_narrow/public/blog/Grad-2024-r3-06551-sm.jpg?itok=9jrEQIr9)
Helping students spread their wings
Assistant Professor Marissa Baker is the 2024 DEOHS Outstanding Faculty Mentor
| Deirdre Lockwood
Read Full StoryLatest Stories
![Three people with face masks on stand in front of a fence with houses in background. Person in middle holds a clipboard and pen, person on right gives a peace sign and is wearing a t-shirt that reads "SERVE LOCAL."](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_mobile/public/blog/Hero_10top.jpg?itok=cOGB898S)
Our most-read stories of 2020
From COVID-19 to wildfire smoke: counting down our top stories from Health & Safety Matters, the DEOHS blog
LEARN MORE![Foundry workers operating heavy machinery](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_mobile/public/blog/foundryThumbnail.jpg?itok=rObGxmo4)
Field trips get a pandemic makeover
A UW instructor reinvents his class, combining ingenuity with virtual reality to let his students experience site visits to industrial workplaces
LEARN MORE![Person in parking lot loading a bag of rolls into the back of a car filled with boxes and bags of food, including a box of Washington apples.](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_mobile/public/blog/49786701012_3979c162ce_k.jpg?itok=0dlcx_QK)
Going hungry in the pandemic
Many in Washington state don’t have enough to eat, according to DEOHS researchers and partners surveying food access
LEARN MORE![A man tests the fit of a face mask being modeled by a student.](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_mobile/public/blog/IMG_4525%20%281%29.jpg?itok=bKPkp3uS)
New gift will create modern lab and research spaces
Omenn-Darling 50th anniversary gift to DEOHS and the UW School of Public Health will transform environmental health research
LEARN MORE
![Two men in face masks carry a tall ladder standing six feet apart.](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_mobile/public/blog/PNASH-COVID-19-blog-hero-1.jpg?itok=ir3JVtBm)
Co-creating COVID-19 messages for farmworkers
Funding from the UW Population Health Initiative jump-started efforts by DEOHS and our partners, working side-by-side with farmworkers, to create tailored safety messages
LEARN MORE![A man lays his cheek against a water buffalo while holding a harness.](/sites/default/files/styles/hero_mobile/public/blog/animals-1782431_1920%20%281%29.jpg?itok=lzBYyXrt)
Stopping animal-to-human disease transmission
DEOHS Professor Elaine Faustman will lead risk analysis and communication for new $100 million USAID initiative
LEARN MORE