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On the job: Angelina Durbin

Undergrad focuses on climate change, food insecurity

| Claudine Benmar

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Four new faculty members join DEOHS in 2024-2025

New assistant professors tackle emerging environmental conditions influencing dementia, birth outcomes, fertility and vector-borne disease

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Protecting health in a changing climate

DEOHS researchers partner with communities to save lives from extreme heat and climate-related disasters

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Are women mariners at risk?

DEOHS PhD student Ally Clonch wins Castner Award to study harassment and mental health of maritime workers

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DEOHS welcomes interim department chair, continues frontline health and safety work

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The promises and perils of AI in medicine

UW experts Dr. Gary Franklin and Lucy Lu Wang discuss how AI could help and hurt healthcare

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RETRACTED AND REPLACED: UW-led research links wildfire smoke exposure with increased dementia risk

DEOHS researcher Joan Casey calls wildfire smoke "a different animal"

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