Prospective students

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Make an impact in your community while earning your environmental health degree in the top-ranked UW School of Public Health. 

Solve problems in environmental justice, worker safety, climate change and more.  

  • Do world-class research in a close-knit department where everybody knows your name.  
  • Graduate ready to launch your career in academia, public agencies, or the private and nonprofit sectors. 

Our degrees

BS in Environmental Public Health (major or minor)

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MS in Environmental Health Sciences Applied

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MS in Environmental Health Sciences Thesis

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MPH in Environmental Health Sciences

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MPH in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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PhD in Environmental Health Sciences

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Additional offerings 

Concurrent degrees

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Continuing Education

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Student impact

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Katrina Gunvaldson

Environmental public health major Katrina Gunvaldson helps test for biotoxins, working toward safer shellfish by the seashore

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Elijah Morales

DEOHS MS Applied student supports safety at Holland America cruise line

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Mariam Assaad

DEOHS MPH student Mariam Assaad aims to reduce harmful bacteria in eyewash stations

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