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
How contact with nature could make us healthier
Dr. Howard Frumkin gives Omenn Lecture in Environmental Health on May 26
Fewer insects, fewer nutritious crops
Pollinator decline puts our health at risk, according to new research from DEOHS and collaborators
Sustaining food systems at the UW and beyond
DEOHS undergrad Angelina Durbin named to the Husky 100 for creative food recovery efforts on campus