Monitoring air quality in schools
Does ultrafine air pollution infiltrate schools near Sea-Tac Airport? DEOHS researchers partner with cities in South King County to find out.
Flushing out COVID-19
Using milk to extract the novel coronavirus from wastewater could help pinpoint new outbreaks
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
Our most-read stories of 2020
From COVID-19 to wildfire smoke: counting down our top stories from Health & Safety Matters, the DEOHS blog
Cadmium, found in cigarettes and some foods, linked to higher death rates in people with flu or pneumonia
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
Going hungry in the pandemic
Many in Washington state don’t have enough to eat, according to DEOHS researchers and partners surveying food access
No country is immune from climate-change health impacts
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