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Three youth volunteers from Duwamish Valley Youth Corps smile wearing yellow safety vests, two giving a thumbs up, in a Duwamish Valley neighborhood in Seattle.

Empowering youth to seek climate solutions in their communities

DEOHS and Duwamish River Community Coalition join new program engaging Latino and Indigenous youth in community climate impacts

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Six people stand in front of an ambulance with a seal painted on the side and text "SR3 Sealife Emergency Response Unit."

Seal pups and safety

Visiting a marine mammal hospital, grad student trainees from Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety gather workplace health insights

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Collage of two images: on left, wildfire smoke and fire in a Washington forest; on right, five farmworkers harvest lettuce in the heat under a canopy with hats and scarves.

Wildfire smoke and extreme heat projects win population health awards

DEOHS researchers and partners tackle health impacts of smoke and heat with new grants from UW Population Health Initiative

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University of Washington is No. 7 in the world for environmental and occupational health sciences

Among US universities, DEOHS programs rank No. 3, according to new US News & World Report rankings

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Joe Allen at white house

How giving our buildings a tune-up can make us healthier

Joseph Allen, director of the Harvard Healthy Buildings Program, will present a public lecture at the UW on November 3, sponsored by DEOHS

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Students from the Brotherhood Initiative stand with DEOHS Professor Martin Cohen and others in front of airplane fuselage at Boeing.

Inspiring careers in worker health and safety

Northwest Center for Occupational Health & Safety partners with the Brotherhood Initiative to support underrepresented men of color at UW

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Aerial view of a large building, the UW Hans Rosling Center for Population Health

Eight new faculty members join DEOHS in 2022-23

New faculty bring broad expertise in environmental exposures, infectious diseases, machine learning, environmental justice, disaster preparedness and more

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A table of seven farmworkers and a child sit in the foreground having a discussion, with other tables of people in the background.

Supporting farmworker families through smoke season

Our PNASH Center and Wenatchee CAFÉ host community events to understand the concerns of farmworker parents

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A sunflower wilts in the afternoon sun.

Heat-related mortality risk is widespread across Washington state

Even in temperate areas of the state, heat-related deaths are a current public health concern, according to new UW research

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