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UW study: Exposure to chemical in Roundup increases risk for cancer

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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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A deep dive into environmental health

Join us each Thursday for this winter's new Environmental Health Seminar series

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New interactive mapping tool ranks Washington communities most impacted by environmental health risks

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Mapping Washington’s environmental health disparities

New tool developed by DEOHS and our partners shows communities most impacted by pollution and environmental inequality 

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Photo of Dr. Esi Nkyekyer in the Occupational Medicine Clinic.

The doctors for your life

Specialists help injured workers get their lives back at the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Clinic, a collaboration among DEOHS, Harborview, UW Medicine and the UW Division of General Internal Medicine 

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