02/09/2012 - Environmental Induction of Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Disease: Ancestral Ghosts in Your Genome

Michael Skinner, PhD

Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University

biography

02/02/2012 - Public Health and Nuclear Reactors

Daniel Hryhorczuk, MD, MPH

Director, Global Environmental Health, Center for Global Health
College of Medicine, University of Illinois

biographies: Medicine and School of Public Health

Grand Rounds

01/26/2012 - Casino Women

Jill Jones, PhD

Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Nevada, Reno

biography

articles (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)

01/19/2012 - Cancelled: Climate Change and Human Health in the Northwest

CANCELLED - Mike Yost, PhD

Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences, University of Washington

biography

01/12/2012 - From Technology Dissemination to Mass Access via Markets

Rashmir Balasubramaniam

Founder and CEO, Nsansa

additional information

01/05/2012 - Semiahmoo Conference

Make your reservations now for the annual joint meeting of the University of Washington / University of British Columbia / Simon Fraser University Occupational, Environmental & Public Health Conference at the Semiahmoo Resort. This meeting is a great opportunity to get together with our cross border colleagues to discuss current health and safety, research, and practice issues.

See the Semiahmoo Conference web site for more info

12/08/2011 - New Frontiers in Environmental Health

Howard Frumkin, MD, DrPH
Dean, UW School of Public Health

12/07/2011 - Office Ergonomics at Genentech

TBA

12/01/2011 - Diesel Exhaust and Cardiovascular Health: How Our Genetics May Influence Our Susceptibility To Air Pollutants

Chad Weldy, PhC

Graduate Student, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

The previously scheduled seminar with Terry Gordon has been cancelled.

11/17/2011 - Washington Green Schools: implications for human and environmental health

Kim Armstrong, MBA
Co-Executive Director for Washington Green Schools (WAGS)

biography

11/10/2011 - Bayesian approach to exposure statistics

Gurumurthy Ramachandran, Ph.D.
Professor, Division of Environmental Health Sciences, University of Minnesota

biography

11/03/2011 - Consumption Junction: Using Whole Genome Sequencing and Social Network Analysis to Investigate Outbreaks of Tuberculosis

Jennifer Gardy, PhD
Genome Research Laboratory, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control

additional information
related article

10/27/2011 - Waste Treatment at Hanford

Suzanne Dahl
Tank Waste Treatment Section Manager, Hanford

additional information
link for public involvement in Hanford Site Plan (1)
link for public involvement in Hanford Site Plan (2)

10/20/2011 - The Relationship Between Energy Policy and Environmental Health: The Case of Coal

Melissa Ahern, MBA, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pharmacotherapy, Washington State University

biography

10/13/2011 - "Pathogen Exposure Modeling: From Recreational Waters to Your Plumbing"

Mary E. Schoen, PhD
Region X EPA

biography
additional information

10/06/2011 - Cases from OSHA Files

Rosemary Sokas, MD, MOH
Director, Office of Occupational Medicine at OSHA

biography

09/29/2011 - Is Formaldehyde a Human Carcinogen?

Harvey Checkoway, PhD
Professor, Env & Occup Health Sciences

biography

06/02/2011 - "Advocating for Environmental and Human Health"

Kim Coble, MSPH

Maryland Executive Director of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation

additional information

05/26/2011 - "Autism, Mercury Exposure, and Disordered Porphyrin Metabolism"

Jim Woods, PhD

Research Professor Emeritus, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences, University of Washington

biography

05/19/2011 - “Endotoxin, Pattern Recognition Receptors and Environmental Lung Disease”

Peter Thorne, PhD

Professor and Head, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Iowa

biography
biosketch (pdf)

05/12/2011 - "The Second Coming of the Sanitarians"

Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH

Professor, Children's Environmental Health, Simon Fraser University

biography

05/05/2011 - Disaster Response: Design Scenarios to Stimulate Research

Rob Corser, AIA

Assistant Professor, University of Washington, College of the Built Environments

biography

04/28/2011 - "Diesel Exhaust and Lung Cancer: Biological Considerations for Exposure Assessment"

Tom Smith, PhD, MPH

Professor, Dept of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health

biography

04/21/2011 - "Biomarkers of Manganese Intoxication: Overview and Perspectives"

Wei Zheng, PhD

Professor and Head of the School of Health Sciences, Purdue University

biography

04/14/2011 - "Occupational Safety and Health Implications of Nanotechnology"

Paul Schulte, PhD

Director, Education and Information Division, NIOSH

additional information

04/07/2011 - "The Evolution of Occupational Risks and the Development of Occupational Medicine as an Organized Medical Specialty in the United States"

Robert Orford, MD

Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Preventive, Occupational, and Aerospace Medicine
Mayo Clinic

biography
Grand Rounds

03/31/2011 - "Confronting the Anti-Regulatory Agenda: Current National Advocacy Campaigns to Advance Worker Health and Safety Protections”

Thomas O'Connor

Executive Director of the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health

additional information


LATER TODAY:
A symposium marking the 100th anniversary of The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

4 - 6pm, South Campus Center, Rm 316
event details

03/10/2011 - "Comedy, Economics, and Climate Change"

Yoram Bauman, PhD

Environmental Economist
Sightline Institute

biography
www.sightline.org

03/03/2011 - "Quantifying Musculoskeletal Exposure in Workplaces – Methods Used in Ergonomics Research at SHARP"

Stephen Bao, PhD

Ergonomist, SHARP (Safety Health Assesment & Research for Prevention), Washington State Department of Labor & Industries

biography

02/24/2011 - "International Training in Environmental and Occupational Health"

Bill Daniell, MD, MPH

Associate Professor

biography

02/17/2011 - "Human Health Issues at Hanford Nuclear Reservation"

John Price with Beth Rochette, PhD
Section Manager, State of Washington, Dept. of Ecology, Nuclear Waste Program

additional information

02/10/2011 - "Working with the Media: How To Get the Right Kind of Attention"

Joanne Silberner, MS

Artist-in-Residence, UW Dept. of Communication

biography

02/03/2011 - "An Overview of the National Work, Family and Health Network"

Leslie Hammer, PhD

Professor, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Dept of Psychology
Portland State University

biography

01/27/2011 - Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in The Infant Development and Environment Study (TIDES)

Sheela Sathyanarayana, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences

biography

01/20/2011 - "Exposure Assessment for Hexavalent Chromium in the Workplace: Old Processes, New Insights"

Michael Morgan, Sc.D.

Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

biography

01/13/2011 - “Childhood Lead Poisoning: The Investigation and Remediation of Mining-Contaminated Villages in Northern Nigeria”

Sarah Weppner, MS
Environmental Health Scientist

TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering, Inc.

additional information

01/06/2011 - *THE ENV H 580 SEMINAR CANCELED TODAY*
Consider attending the Semiahmoo conference.

UW/UBC/SFU 23rd Annual Environmental Health Conference
Semiahmoo Resort, Blaine WA
January 6th and 7th, 2011
conference program
registration

and

Sixth Annual Public Health Symposium: Changing Demographics and Public Health in the Pacific Northwest (US and Canada)
Semiahmoo Resort, Blaine WA
January 7th and 8th, 2011
general information

NEW THIS YEAR! A joint luncheon will be held on Jan. 7th with speaker Dr. Howard Frumkin, Dean of the UW School of Public Health. This is a joint session between the EH conference and the Public Health Symposium.

12/09/2010 - "Extreme Weather and Infections in the Asia Pacific"

Ann Marie Kimball, MD, PhD

Dept of Epidemiology, UW School of Public Health

biography
additional reading

12/02/2010 - "Motivating cycling in North American cities: Evidence from the Cycling in Cities research program"

Kay Teschke, PhD

Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia

biography

11/18/2010 - "The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and its Legal and Biological Legacy"

Craig Tillery, JD

Deputy Attorney General, Alaska Department of Law

11/04/2010 - "Pesticides and Child Health: A Review of the Evidence"

Catherine Karr, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Science

biography
more information

10/28/2010 - "Understanding Environmental Chemical Impacts on Olfactory Function in Salmon"

Evan Gallagher, PhD

Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Toxicology program

biography

10/21/2010 - "A Microfabricated Gas Chromatograph for Sub-ppb Determinations of TCE in Vapor Intrusion Investigations: A 10-Year Sojourn from Concept to Field Prototype"

Edward (Ted) Zellers, PhD

Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, University of Michigan School of Public Health

biography

10/14/2010 - “Is the EMF Health Issue Really Dead?”

Gabor Mezei, MD, PhD

Electric Power Research Institute
Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

biography

10/07/2010 - "Whaddya Know? (vs Whaddya Carrying? vs Where’re ya Linking?): Wetware, Software, and Webware for Occupational and Environmental Health"

Gary Greenberg, MD, MPH

University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health

09/30/2010 - "Environmental and Public Health in Namibia - Needs and Opportunities"

David Kalman, PhD

Professor & Chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences

biography

06/03/2010 - The Promise and Problems of Nuclear Energy

Julia Sober

Health Physicist and Compliance Analyst,
University of Washington EH&S, Radiation Safety

05/27/2010 - Detection of Microbial Pathogens: What is Life?

Gerard Cangelosi, PhD

Affiliate Member, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute
Affiliate Associate Professor, Departments of Global Health & Epidemiology,
University of Washington

biography

05/20/2010 - Exposures Assessment and the Importance of Compound-Compound Interactions in Mixtures

Gunnar Boysen, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

biography

05/13/2010 - Parental Pesticide Exposure and Child Development in the Fresh-cut Flower Industry in Ecuador

Jose Ricardo Suarez, MPH, MD, PhD(c)

Division of Epidemiology,
University of Minnesota

Post seminar reception hosted by CIMAS in T-747

biography
www.cimas.edu.ec

05/06/2010 - Communicating Science to Non-scientific Audiences

Deborah Illman, PhD

NSF Senior Fellow, Communication
University of Washington

biography

04/29/2010 - User Centered Design to Catalyze Markets for Sustainable Health Impact: PATH Safe Water Project

Kevin Flick, PhD

Consumer Product Officer at PATH

PATH is an international nonprofit organization that creates sustainable, culturally relevant solutions, enabling communities worldwide to break longstanding cycles of poor health.

Presentation (pdf)
PATH Internships
www.path.org
additional information
biography

04/22/2010 - Occupational Health and Safety on the UW Campus

Jude Van Buren, DrPH

Director, Environmental Health and Safety, University of Washington,

biography
additional information

04/15/2010 - SEMINAR CANCELED - Quantitation of Human Exposures to OP-Nerve Agents and Mycotoxins

Rudy Johnson, PhD

Center for Disease Control and Prevention

04/08/2010 - Understanding Environmental Risk Factors for Neural Tube Defects

Richard H. Finnell, PhD

Margaret M. Alkek Professor of Medical Genetics
Regents Professor, Institute of Biosciences and Technology
Texas A&M Health Science Center
Executive Director, The Texas A&M Institute for Genomic Medicine

biography

04/01/2010 - Pulmonary Exposure to Manganese: An Exposure Assessment Study of Welding Fume and Biomarkers of Internal Dose

Julie Richman, PhD

Post Doctoral Fellow

additional information

03/11/2010 - Building the Linkage Between Clean Energy and Green Chemistry

Michael Wilson, PhD, MPH

and

Megan Schwarzman, MD, MPH

Research Scientists,
Program in Green Chemistry and Chemicals Policy,
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health,
School of Public Health,
University of California, Berkeley

additional information
OEM Grand Rounds
Toward a New U.S. Chemicals Policy: Rebuilding the Foundation to Advance
New Science, Green Chemistry, and Environmental Health (PDF)

03/04/2010 - Environmental Justice and Air Quality at the US-Mexico Border: case studies

PJE (Jenny) Quintana, PhD

Associate Professor San Diego State University

biography

02/25/2010 - Why global supply chains are full of sweatshops...and how we can end them

Garrett Brown, MPH, CIH

Coordinator of the Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network
and Compliance Officer for CalOSHA

About the Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network
additional information

02/18/2010 - Catching waves and MRSA too: Risks for swimmers and beach goers at marine beaches

Marilyn C. Roberts, PhD
Professor
Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences

additional information

02/11/2010 - Air pollution and stroke: Timing is everything

Murray Mittleman, DrPH

Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

biography
additional information

02/04/2010 - The Social Determinants of Chronic Disease in Industrial Workers: An Inconvenient Truth

Mark Cullen, MD

Professor, General Internal Medicine
Stanford School of Medicine

OEM Grand Rounds

01/28/2010 - The Impact of the Built Environment on Public Health

Andrew L. Dannenberg, MD, MPH

Clinical Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
Team Lead, Healthy Community Design Initiative
Associate Director for Science, Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services
National Center for Environmental Health

biography
additional information (1)
additional information (2)
additional information (3)

01/21/2010 - Occupational Exposures and Airways Disease Measured by Chest CT Scan: A Faculty Exchange Experience in Bergen, Norway

Sverre Vedal, MD, MSc

Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Medicine

biography

01/14/2010 - Student Experiences Internationally

Panel presentation by:
Janessa Graves, MPH, current Health Services doctoral student
Erica Finsness, MPH, DEOHS Research Scientist
Rad Cunningham, BA, current DEOHS and Evans School MPH/MPA student

International Opportunities for EOH Graduate Students

01/07/2010 - Idiosyncratic Drug-induced Liver Injury: The Inflammatory Stress Hypothesis

Robert Roth, PhD, DABT
Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology
Michigan State University

biography
additional information

12/10/2009 - MRSA Exposures in Emergency Healthcare Responders: Building Effective Infection Control

Kelly A. Reynolds, MSPH, PhD

Associate Professor
Community Environment and Policy
The University of Arizona College of Public Health

biography

12/03/2009 - A Presentation on the National Child Health Study

Elaine Faustman, PhD

Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Evans School

biography
additional information

11/19/2009 - The Climate Change Assessment: Identifying Adaptation Challenges and Opportunities in the PNW from a Legal Perspective

Michael Robinson-Dorn, JD

Associate Professor
University of Washington Law School

biography
additional information

11/12/2009 - Evaluating Public Health Impacts of Climate Change In the Pacific Northwest

Michael G. Yost, PhD, MS

Professor
Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
University of Washington

biography
additional information

11/05/2009 - Biological Monitoring of Exposures to Organophosphorus pesticides: Challenges and Opportunities

Christopher D. Simpson, PhD, MSc

Associate Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington

biography
OEM Grand Rounds

10/29/2009 - Naturally occurring splice variants of the human nuclear receptor, CAR, encode novel xenobiotic sensors

Curt Omiecinski, PhD

Professor of Veterinary Science
H. Thomas and Dorothy Willits Hallowell Chair,
Penn State University

biography
additional information

10/22/2009 - The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air): Mid-Course Update

Joel Kaufman, MD, MPH

Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences
Director, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program

biography

10/15/2009 - Effects of vibration on muscles in the neck and upper limbs: with focus on occupational terrain vehicle drivers

Charlotte Lewis, PhD

Department of Community Medicine and Rehabilitation
Umea University, Sweden

biography

10/08/2009 - Molecular mechanisms for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Marina Guizzetti, PhD

Research Scientist
Env. & Occup. Health Sciences
University of Washington

biography

10/01/2009 - Nanotechnology in the Workplace

John Howard, MD, MPH, JD, LLM

Director of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC

link to bio

06/04/2009 - "Early Life Exposures to Environmental Oxidants: Rethinking Paradigms about Adaptation and Long Term Consequences"

Edward M. Postlethwait, PhD

Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham

05/28/2009 - Thursday, May 28, 2009
12:30 - 3:00pm
South Campus Center, Room 316

Student Research Day

12:30pm - Student Presentations
Selected second-year masters students will present summaries of their thesis research.

1:45pm - Student Poster Session and Reception
Posters by graduating masters students and selected doctoral students will be on display.

05/21/2009 - "Air Pollution and Atherosclerosis: The role of particle size and chemical composition"

Jesus A. Araujo, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiology
UCLA

05/14/2009 - "Can heterogeneity in observed exposure response relationships be explained by quality aspects in the exposure assessment?"

Roel Vermeulen, PhD

Institute of Risk Assessment Sciences
Utrecht University & Julius Center, Health Sciences and Primary Care
University Medical Center Utrecht
The Netherlands

05/07/2009 - "Environmental Justice and Public Health at the Port of Oakland"

Aditi Vaidya, MPH

Port Program Director, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy

04/30/2009 - "The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) Occupational Analysis: The Role of Occupation in Health Disparities"

Kaori Fujishiro, PhD

Senior Fellow, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

04/23/2009 - "Health hazards and potential benefits of environmental endotoxin exposure"

Harvey Checkoway, PhD

Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences
Professor, Epidemiology

04/16/2009 - Popular Epidemiology as a Health Education Strategy in Global Environmental & Occupational Health

Helen Murphy, MHS

Director of Outreach, Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center

04/09/2009 - Pesticides, Dopaminergic Neuron Death, and Parkinson's Disease

Zhengui Xia, PhD

Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences
Adjunct Professor, Pharmacology

04/02/2009 - "Work-Related Asthma: Prevention and Regulation"

Robert J. Harrison, MD, MPH

Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Chief, Occupational Health Surveillance and Evaluation Program, California Department of Health Services, San Francisco, CA

03/12/2009 - Exploring the health effects of traffic-related air pollution

Sara Dubowsky Adar

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology

03/05/2009 - One-way, Two-way, and Multi-Way Communication: Can Scientists Move Beyond the Ivory Tower?

Julia Parrish, PhD

Director, Program on the Environment,
Associate Director, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences,
Professor, Biology Department

02/26/2009 - "The Potential for Microfinance in Water Supply and Sanitation in Western Kenya"

Joe Cook, PhD

Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, Evans School of Public Affairs

02/19/2009 - Traffic Exposure Impacts on Left Ventricular Mass and Gene-Environment Interactions in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort

Victor Van Hee, MD, MPH

Candidate for Faculty Position, Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program
Currently Instructor (Acting), UW Department of Medicine

02/12/2009 - Ports and Goods Movement: The Goods, the Bads,and the Uglies

Andrea Hricko, MPH

Director of the Community Outreach and Education Program at the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center, University of Southern California

Edward Avol, M.S.

Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California

02/05/2009 - Occupational Medicine in the Construction Industry: Intersection of Work with Chronic Disease and Aging

Laura S. Welch, MD

Medical Director
CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland

Dr. Welch will also be speaking at OEM Grand Rounds at 6 pm, for further details, click here

01/29/2009 - The Concern Over Perfluorinated Chemicals

Joyce Dinglasan-Panlilio, PhD

Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

01/22/2009 - The Mismeasure of Dermal Absorption

John Kissel, PhD

Professor, Env. and Occ. Health Sciences

01/15/2009 - "Duwamish Valley Regional Air Modeling and Risk"

Elmer Diaz
Health Assessor, Department of Health

and co-presentor

Gary Palcisko
Risk Assessor, Air Quality Program, WA Dept. of Ecology

01/08/2009 - No seminar event scheduled

Semiahmoo Annual Conference