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Video: UW helps protect Washington’s workers through occupational health and safety research, training

University of Washington’s efforts to keep workers safe are threatened by cuts to federal programs

| Alden Woods and Kiyomi Taguchi

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Trimming food waste

To help consumers waste less food, the whole food system needs to pitch in

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Toxicology for health

For this DEOHS alum, a PhD in toxicology brought a public health lens and lifelong friends

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The sea around us

DEOHS Professor Elaine Faustman leads health component of new interdisciplinary ocean research center

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Protecting health in the Great Plains

DEOHS environmental health major takes on the COVID-19 crisis and more while interning with the Indian Health Service

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Collaborating for health equity

DEOHS awarded three COVID-19 health equity research grants from the UW Population Health Initiative

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Reassessing chlorpyrifos and children's health

Data omission in key EPA insecticide study shows need for review of industry-funded research, according to new University of Washington research

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