Health & Safety Matters: The DEOHS blog

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Amber Khan and Nicole Errett stand together smiling.

Building community power amid climate and housing crises

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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Flame retardants and diabetes

New DEOHS research probes how chemical exposures may boost diabetes risk via gut microbes

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Three people stand in a gym near a whiteboard on a wall decorated with Native American art.

Making breathing room

Clean air shelters offer refuge from wildfire smoke. DEOHS is helping one NW tribe identify the best place to create one

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Award-winning students

DEOHS students recognized for their research at the National Environmental Health Association conference

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Wind turbines stretch across a hill in Eastern Washington. Photo: Jolayne Houtz.

Mapping environmental inequality

 

A new state law will draw on research by DEOHS and our partners to pinpoint communities most at risk from pollution and climate change

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Global impact

DEOHS Professor Elaine Faustman wins international and state recognition for her contributions to toxicology 

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A man wearing an air mask drives a tractor through an orchard.

When pesticides drift

DEOHS research will inform WA state efforts to protect farmworkers from pesticide exposure

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