ABOUT US
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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
We are…
At the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, we identify, seek to understand, and help manage the effects of the environment on human health by . . .
- evaluating and controlling workplace hazards
- maintaining a safe supply of food and drinking water
- discovering the mechanisms of occupationally and environmentally related diseases
- improving methods for treatment and disposal of solid and toxic wastes
- researching how the environment interacts with genetics to influence human health
- studying how environmental chemicals affect the health of children
- educating the next generation of occupational and environmental health professionals
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
