Faculty and students in the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences explore environmental justice, One Health, genetic susceptibility to environmental exposures and the ways some people and communities are more vulnerable to those exposures.
We identify policies and interventions to reduce harmful environmental exposures and improve risk communication, and study the effects of climate change, natural disasters, built environments and environmental policy on population health.
Our students are actively engaged in our research and trained in the latest scientific methods and core principles of how environmental factors affect the health of people, animals and the planet.
Research spotlight
3 ways to help kids thrive on Children’s Environmental Health Day (and every day)
Expert tips on how to minimize children’s exposure to wildfire smoke, lead, plastics and more
It’s possible to test wastewater for STIs
UW and Washington State Department of Health track wastewater to help improve public health response to chlamydia and other sexually transmitted pathogens
On the Job: Payton Miksch
DEOHS undergrad does “all of the things” in rural health as intern with Yakima Health District