Our most-read stories of 2020
From COVID-19 to wildfire smoke: counting down our top stories from Health & Safety Matters, the DEOHS blog
Cadmium, found in cigarettes and some foods, linked to higher death rates in people with flu or pneumonia
Field trips get a pandemic makeover
A UW instructor reinvents his class, combining ingenuity with virtual reality to let his students experience site visits to industrial workplaces
Going hungry in the pandemic
Many in Washington state don’t have enough to eat, according to DEOHS researchers and partners surveying food access
No country is immune from climate-change health impacts
New gift will create modern lab and research spaces
Omenn-Darling 50th anniversary gift to DEOHS and the UW School of Public Health will transform environmental health research
Co-creating COVID-19 messages for farmworkers
Funding from the UW Population Health Initiative jump-started efforts by DEOHS and our partners, working side-by-side with farmworkers, to create tailored safety messages
Stopping animal-to-human disease transmission
DEOHS Professor Elaine Faustman will lead risk analysis and communication for new $100 million USAID initiative
Ensuring access to care for injured workers
Specialists in our Occupational and Environmental Medicine Clinic quickly pivot to telemedicine to care for patients during the pandemic