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PhD student earns prestigious Tillman Scholar award
DEOHS PhD student Stephanie Mitchell studies transmission of zoonotic diseases between wildlife, domestic livestock and humans
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Cadmium exposure and COVID-19
New research finds high levels of cadmium from smoking and certain foods are linked to more severe flu, pneumonia—and potentially, COVID-19
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Our most-read stories of 2020
From COVID-19 to wildfire smoke: counting down our top stories from Health & Safety Matters, the DEOHS blog
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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
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Going hungry in the pandemic
Many in Washington state don’t have enough to eat, according to DEOHS researchers and partners surveying food access
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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
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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
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