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DEOHS Alumni Profiles

Listing of EOHS-related Job Sites

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SOT Resource Guide to Careers in Toxicology

Seattle Times feature on Industrial Hygiene Careers

The complete Guide to Envronmental Careers in the 21st Century (Includes chapters on Air Quality, Water Quality, Solid Waste, and Hazardous Waste Management)

ACOEM Guide to Careers in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Careers

The fields of Environmental and Occupational Health are growing because of increased awareness of physical, biological and chemical hazards in our world; greater knowledge of their potential effects on human health; and more emphasis on personal and worker safety. Graduates can improve quality of life and have a career that provides a good salary and promising professional opportunities.

Environmental Health provides diverse career paths at any point in your professional life. Jobs are available in both the public and private sector. You can easily move from the role of researcher to manager to practitioner. Recent graduates are working as educators, toxicologists, risk assessment investigators, hazard specialists, compliance officers, industrial hygienists, ergonomists, occupational health physicians, research scientists, and public health advisors.