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
Washington households continue to face food insecurity
Washingtonians struggle to afford food amid rising costs and uncertain federal support, according to new survey from UW, WSU and WSDA
Safeguarding clean drinking water
Rebecca Kann named 2026 DEOHS Outstanding PhD Student for community-engaged research on water, sanitation and climate
UW ranked fourth in world and second in US for public, environmental and occupational health
Among US public universities, DEOHS programs top US News and World Report’s Best Global Universities list