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ENV H 580 Environmental and Occupational Health Seminar: Peter Murchie - "Reimagining EPA - Environmental Health at a Crossroads"

At EPN, Peter Murchie (he/him) is the Senior Director for Policy leading the National Policy and Civil Service Resilience teams and focused programming for Safeguarding EPA’s Scientific Record and Independent Science Advice and Reimagine EPA. Peter has 30 years as a public sector leader focused on collaborative governance solutions for complex environmental health challenges. Peter has degrees in Public Health and in Natural Resource Science and Policy from the University of Michigan. Most of his career has been with the U.S. EPA working in leadership and management roles including co-founding the West Coast Collaborative (improving air quality with a focus on diesel emissions), leading the Making a Visible Difference in Communities Initiative, developing and advising on Region 10's climate and sustainability efforts, and managing the Community Involvement and Environmental Justice programs and the Grants and Interagency Agreements programs. Most recently, Peter was the management lead for the U.… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HOAWvDegSXiH8g1fczEqew. Campus room: HRC 155. Accessibility Contact: ehug@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, November 5, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM.

ENV H 580 Environmental and Occupational Health Seminar: Anjum Hajat - "Beyond traditional occupation health: The impacts of precarious employment on health and health inequities"

Dr. Anjum Hajat is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. Her research seeks to understand how social and environmental determinants of health contribute to poor health and health disparities. She strives to engage with communities most impacted by injustice while also answering questions to guide policy and action. Beyond the realm of traditional occupational health, other aspects of work also impact worker’s health. In this talk, I will focus on the employment quality (EQ) which can be defined as the continuum of employment circumstances that result from the employer – worker relationship, things like wages, benefits, work schedules, and employment stability. Poor EQ, also known as precarious employment (PE), has been linked to several poor health outcomes. I will describe the pathways by which PE impacts health and discuss how PE results in and exacerbat… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HOAWvDegSXiH8g1fczEqew. Campus room: HRC 155. Accessibility Contact: ehug@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, November 12, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM.

ENV H 580 Environmental and Occupational Health Seminar: Tigran Avoundjian - "It all comes down to poo! Wastewater-based surveillance of communicable diseases in King County, WA"

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HOAWvDegSXiH8g1fczEqew. Campus room: HRC 155. Accessibility Contact: ehug@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, November 19, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM.

ENV H 580 Environmental and Occupational Health Seminar: Amy Luers - "Is Resource Positive AI development possible?"

Dr. Amy Luers is head of sustainability science and innovation at Microsoft. In this role, she leads Microsoft’s work at the intersection of AI and sustainability and collaborates across the company to shape strategies, investments, and policies that advance global sustainability. Previously, Dr. Luers served as Executive Director of Future Earth; Assistant Director for Climate Resilience and Information at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under the Obama administration; Director of Climate at the Skoll Global Threats Fund; and Senior Environment Manager at Google. She began her career working in Latin America, where she co-founded Agua Para La Vida, a non-profit that partners with rural communities to improve access to potable water. Dr. Luers currently serves on the advisory boards of the Veolia Institute, the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and the Gund Institute for Environment. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Academies of… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HOAWvDegSXiH8g1fczEqew. Campus room: HRC 155. Accessibility Contact: ehug@uw.edu. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, December 3, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM.

ENV H 580 Environmental and Occupational Health Seminar: Alicia Kraay - "When and where can WASH work? Interrupting environmental transmission of enteric pathogens"