FACULTY
Charles D. Treser, MPH
Senior Lecturer, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences
The general area of my teaching and research involves the applied aspects of Environmental Health Practice, i.e., how are the principles and concepts of EH actually practiced in the field, especially in local and state EH agencies. Principle areas of interest include Administrative Law and Process applied to Environmental Health, Vector Control and Housing, and Environmental Health Education and Training.
Contact Information
Box 3572341959 NE Pacific Street, E-179 HSB
Seattle, WA 98195
Tel: 206-616-2097
ctreser@u.washington.edu
Links
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
Undergraduate Program Homepage
University of Washington Homepage
Research Interests
Environmental health practice, law & regulation; policy analysis; decision making; program planning and evaluation; education of environmental health workforce; housing; zoonotic disease; vector control; environmental health policy
Education
MPH, Environmental Health, University of Michigan 1976
Projects
Comparison of the knowledge, skills and abilities desired by public sector employers with the curriculum content of EH programs offered by schools of public health in five states. This study has collected job descriptions of all EH related jobs in all state agencies in Florida, Hawaii, New York, Oklahoma and Washington and we are now in the process of extracting and analyzing the data to identify the specific knowledge and skills that employers say they are looking for, in order to test the "fit" between these and the knowledge and skills taught in our schools of public health.
Development of a practical manual on housing and health for Environmental Health practitioners, housing inspectors and building code officials. This manual is being developed as a cooperative project involving the American Public Health Association, the National Environmental Health Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention among others. It involves revising the APHA-CDC Model Housing Code and the CDC Basic Housing Inspection Manual.
