Spring Quarter 2010
Instructors

Course Instructors

Charles D. (Chuck) Treser, MPH, DAAS
Senior Lecturer
School of Public Health & Community Medicine
Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences
and Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
E-179, Health Sciences Center
Campus Box 357234
Seattle, WA 98195-7234
Phone: 206-616-2097
Fax: 206-543-9616
Email: ctreser@u.washington.edu

Office Hours: 10:30 - 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. daily, however it is advisable to sign up on the schedule outside my office door or check to make sure that I'm available as I often have meetings that can draw me away from my office.  Other times by appointment.

Mr. Treser was born near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He received his bachelor of arts degree in history from Thiel College in 1967, and served three years in the United States Army as an artillery survey specialist, an education specialist and a personnel specialist. In 1971 he began his career in environmental health as an environmental health inspector with the Allegheny County Health Department in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Steady promotions followed over the next four years until 1975, when as an environmental health supervisor, he went on leave to obtain a Master of Public Health degree at the University of Michigan. In 1976 he returned to the Allegheny County Health Department and was promoted to environmental health administrator. There he developed a comprehensive training program for new environmental health employees. In 1980, he accepted a position as Lecturer in Environmental Health with the University of Washington's Department of Environmental Health to manage a continuing competency education system for environmental health personnel.

Chuck teaches in both the undergraduate program and the school-wide extended MPH degree program. He is an active participant in the University of Washington’s Northwest Center for Public Health Practice – the organizational nexus within the School of Public Health & Community Medicine for connecting the academic pursuits of the school with the needs of the Public Health practice community. He has also participated in a national effort to revise the basic housing inspection manual for EH practitioners, and is the principal investigator on a cooperative agreement between the Association of Environmental Health Academic Programs (AEHAP) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designed to improve environmental health practice through promoting and strengthening environmental health academic programs.  Chuck is a Diplomate in the American Academy of Sanitarians.

Carl S. Osaki
Carl Osaki,
Clinical Associate Professor
School of Public Health & Community Medicine
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
and Northwest Center for Public Health Practice
Campus Mailbox 354809
Seattle WA 98195-4809
Phone: (206) 365-1633
Fax: (206) 616-9415
Email:  csosaki@aol.com

Office Hours: 9:30 - 10:20 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  Other times by appointment.

Carl S. Osaki, RS, MSPH is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington. He retired as the Director of Environmental Health, Seattle-King County Department of Public Health in 1999 and served as a member (Vice Chair) of the Washington State Board of Health from 1997 to 2005. Carl was one of the authors of PACE-EH (a nationally recognized community environmental health assessment tool). He serves as a consultant to local, state, and tribal public health agencies nationwide and has provided numerous trainings and workshops relating to environmental health practice and public health emergency preparedness and response. From 2000 to 2004, he managed an Association of Schools of Public Health training grant aimed at helping local and state agencies integrate the Essential Services of Public Health into environmental health practice. He was the principal investigator for 3 year CDC grant to assist environmental health units in 9 states enhance their capacity through trainings, assessments, and evaluations. Carl is the past chair of the Washington State Association of Local Health Officials and is a member of numerous state and national public health organizations. His Bachelors and Masters degrees are in Environmental Health; both from the University of Washington. He has been in public health practice since 1966.

 

 

 

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