Our faculty-led research investigates emerging environmental health issues like the connection between air pollution and dementia and how pesticides impact human health. Research at the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences aims to improve access to clean air, clean water, safe food and safe workplaces—the building blocks of healthy communities.
DEOHS students are actively engaged in our research, which takes us around the globe and into our own backyard in the Pacific Northwest to investigate how environmental and workplace factors affect our health.
We work with cross-sector partners to translate our research findings into innovative, evidence-based tools that improve people’s lives and livelihoods and create communities where everyone can thrive.
Areas of research
Fast facts
70+ funded projects
and centers investigating how environmental and occupational health factors affect our health.
100s of community partnerships
Working together with our teams to advance health equity around the world
$23+ million
in external funding to research emerging environmental and occupational health challenges with advanced lab technology.