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A fruit and vegetable stand at Pike Place Market with purveyors in background.

Trimming food waste

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

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Portrait of Tyler Nicholas in front of Bluebird Ice Cream in Seattle.

Toxicology for health

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

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Five people fishing at the ocean, standing in the surf with fishing rods.

The sea around us

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

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Peterson standing in front of a canyon in the Badlands.

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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A woman picks yellow flowers in a field.

Collaborating for health equity

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

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A sign warning that pesticide spraying is in progress in front of a row of flowers

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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Data omission in key EPA insecticide study shows need for review of industry analysis

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Portrait of Lianne Sheppard

A model of scientific integrity

DEOHS Professor Lianne Sheppard recognized by the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology for her principled approach to science

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Gombart standing in a hole surrounded by rocks and soil, holding out a ball of soil in his extended right hand.

Safe water for all

DEOHS environmental health major gets down in the dirt for public health

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