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More research and consistent workplace rules are needed to protect worker health and safety in the cannabis industry

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

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

Can trees clean up jet pollution?

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

Sharing abundant knowledge

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

Master of disaster

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

EDGE Team Investigates COVID-19 Health Disparities

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

Working conditions influence birth outcomes

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

Can pets get COVID-19?

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

Helping businesses reopen safely

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

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.

Dr. Elaine Faustman, receives 2020 PANWAT award

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