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New center helps ready Northwest communities for disasters and public health emergencies

Northwest Center for Evidence-Based Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response launches with funding from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


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Making breathing room

Clean air shelters offer refuge from wildfire smoke. EDGE researchers are helping one NW tribe identify the best place to create one

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Can the coronavirus spread in hospital air?

Using state-of-the-art sensors, EDGE members, Edmund Seto and Martin Cohen, team up with UW colleagues to track aerosols in a hospital environment

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Can trees clean up jet pollution?

EDGE member, Edmund Seto, leads study uses drones to test whether vegetation filters harmful aircraft pollution

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Sharing abundant knowledge

EDGE member, Elaine Faustman, honored for her commitment to educating birth-defects researchers

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Master of disaster

EDGE Co-Director of Community Engagement Nicole Errett is this year’s Outstanding Faculty Mentor

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EDGE Team Investigates COVID-19 Health Disparities

New grant to support study of disparities in COVID testing and mortality

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Working conditions influence birth outcomes

Study by EDGE researchers shows link between maternal employment ‘precarity’ and low-birth-weight infants

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Can pets get COVID-19?

New study led by EDGE member, Peter Rabinowitz, investigates novel coronavirus transmission to our animal companions

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Helping businesses reopen safely

DEOHS researchers launch survey and offer their guidance on reopening in the pandemic

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Novel coronavirus videos released in nine languages

EDGE's disaster response expert, Nicole Errett, weighs in with advice about what to do and not to do in the face of the current novel coronavirus outbreak.

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Dr. Elaine Faustman, receives 2020 PANWAT award

EDGE member, Dr. Elaine Faustman is honored for her toxicology scholarship, leadership, and service.  

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Esther Min presents EDGE science to the Soros Foundation in Kyrgyzstan

Min was invited to present about how digital power can be used to identify climate vulnerability.

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