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Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
About DEOHS
Chair's Message
Welcome to the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
"We are a dynamic department focused on discovering and analyzing the links between human health and the environment. The faculty is multidisciplinary and includes physicians, engineers, chemists, toxicologists, industrial hygienists, and other public health scientists. These diverse researchers share common goals - to understand and manage environmental safety and health risks, and to protect human health and well being. We invite you to explore our programs and activities."
- Dave Kalman, Chair
Our mission
- to identify agents in the environment and the work place that affect human health
- to elucidate their mechanisms
- to develop strategies for confronting their effects
- to share the knowledge obtained
Anniversary
History
The Department of Environmental Health has been around since the 1940's. Learn more about our history
Advisory Committee
There are eight members in our department's external advisory committee, which was created by the Legislature in 1963.
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2012 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
School of Public Health, University of Washington
Box 357234, Seattle, Washington, USA 98195-7234
Phone: 206-543-6991, Fax: 206-616-0477, email ehadmin@u.washington.edu
The School of Public Health's logo (Soul Catcher) is a Northwest Coast Indian symbol of physical and mental well-being. It was designed by artist Marvin Oliver and is a registered trademark of the School.