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ENV H 580 Environmental and Occupational Health Seminar: Student Career Session - Private & Nonprofit Employer Panel

Panelists have been invited to reflect on the following:- What is it like to work at your company/organization? - How is it different than other companies/organizations? - How is it different than working in a similar role in a public agency or environmental consulting firm? - What do you see as the biggest challenges for DEOHS students as they begin their careers? - What should they be doing to improve their career prospects? 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, October 15, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM.

Peter A. Breysse Memorial Lecture with Dr. Robert Harrison (ENV H 580 Environmental and Occupational Health Seminar)

The UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS) welcomes Dr. Robert Harrison as our 2026 Breysse Lecture speaker. Dr. Harrison will deliver his speech, "From surveillance to prevention: Interdisciplinary strategies for occupational health and safety," which will be followed by a reception. RSVP for the event. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2BNa_N9dSqWr3-ut5UhE_A. Campus room: HRC 155. Accessibility Contact: ehug@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Thursday, October 22, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM. For more info visit deohs.washington.edu.

ENV H 580 Environmental and Occupational Health Seminar: Holly Elser - "The environment and neurology: An epidemiological approach"

I am a physician scientist whose research aims to draw closer together the worlds of population health research and clinical neurology and to ask rigorous questions that are rooted in the experiences of real patients. My neurological expertise is in behavioral neurology, and my clinical practice focuses on the diagnosis and management of neurodegenerative dementias. My research examines the clinical, social, and environmental determinants of neurological diseases, with an emphasis on the implications of climate and the environment for Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s related dementias (AD/ADRD). Disorders of the central nervous system are complex, can be challenging to diagnose and manage, and often their pathophysiologic basis remains only partially characterized. This talk showcases recent research that explores environmental risk factors - including ambient temperature, short- and long-term air pollution exposure - as drivers of neurological disease onset and worsening to showcase how patients with n… 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, October 29, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM.

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 development possible?"

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