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Four new faculty members join DEOHS in 2024-2025

New assistant professors tackle emerging environmental conditions influencing dementia, birth outcomes, fertility and vector-borne disease

| Deirdre Lockwood

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Can Roundup cause cancer?

New study from DEOHS researchers finds exposure to commonly used weed killer increases risk of some cancers

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Photo of Roundup herbicide product. Photo via Alamy.

Can Roundup cause cancer?

New study from DEOHS researchers finds exposure to commonly used weed killer increases risk of some cancers

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Image of the Pestisafe app on a cell phone.

Bilingual app to keep farmworkers safe

First-of-its-kind mobile app developed by DEOHS provides pesticide safety information in Spanish

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Feels like home

Brianna Willis, SPH master’s fellowship winner, forges a new path in One Health

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Professor David Eaton, right, pictured with David Kalman and Michael Yost.

Public health change-maker

Forty years after launching the DEOHS toxicology program, Professor David Eaton will retire

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Changing the rules on toxic emissions

DEOHS researchers say EPA proposal on mercury emissions would make air pollution tougher to regulate

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