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Research and Service: Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health

Faculty, students and staff in the Department of Global, Environmental, and Occupational Health engage in highly applied interdisciplinary research, scholarship and practice in the following areas:

  • Airborne infectious disease transmission
  • Climate and health
  • Cumulative environmental health risks
  • Dietary toxins linked to cancer, immune suppression and early life growth retardation
  • Drinking water and recreational water quality
  • Environmental justice
  • Food and waterborne disease
  • Food-energy-water-climate-health nexus
  • One Health
  • Pandemic preparedness
  • Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
  • Water reuse (agricultural, potable and non-potable reuse)

Our projects and programs involve collaborative partnerships with researchers and partners here on campus, in our local communities and around the world.

To find out more, please visit the website links of our labs, centers and programs found below: