RESEARCH

Our research mission is to promote occupational and environmental medicine as a discipline by scientifically and objectively creating new knowledge about complex workplace and community exposures. We focus on policy-relevant research, including the relationship between exposure and disease, the cost versus benefit of new standards, and clinical interventions. We serve as an objective and unique source of information for policy makers, regulatory bodies, and primary care givers.

The program offers research opportunities in the fields of agricultural health, air pollution health effects, biostatistics, chemical and physical toxicants, dietary factors and disease risk, epidemiology, international occupational health, multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome, musculoskeletal injury, neurological epidemiology, neuropsychological sequelae of solvent/pesticide exposure, occupational lead poisoning, and occupational lung disease.

The Occupational and Environmental Medicine program is involved in several major research activities, these include:

• Center for Ecogenetics and Environmental Health (CEEH)
• Collaborative Center for Healthy Work and Environment (CCHWE)
• DISCOVER Center
• Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution (MESA Air)
• Occupational Epidemiology and Health Outcomes Program
• Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center
• Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit
• UW Superfund Basic Research Program