EOH Newsletter March ‘16: Environmental and Occupational Health Month and Much More


April 7, 2016

The many achievements, publications, presentations and news coverage of EOH professors, lecturers, students and staff in March 2016 include:   

  • Student accomplishments:  GW’s Public Health Student Association put on the school’s first Environmental and Occupational Health month and EOH students played a key role in organizing events including movie screenings, a journal club, and a seminar, as well as an in-school party and offsite happy hour.  Students also helped put together a video about the Zika virus, in addition to authoring publications, making presentations, presenting posters, and talking about their internships and trips to Congressional hearings. 
  • Publications and presentations:  The topics our faculty and staff published on this month include: meatpacking workers’ exposure to bacteria from livestock; a comparison of two important and conflicting evaluations of the pesticide glyphosate; an investigation into how E. coli ST131 emerged as a global pathogen; and airway obstruction among construction workers.
  • News: Find links to more than 25 news articles, opinion pieces, and blog posts written by or quoting EOH faculty and staff, including The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, POLITICO, Nature, National Public Radio, and Oprah Magazine.

See the March 2016 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health newsletter for details and more, including why the EOH visiting lecturer who is the author of Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History was quoted on a new trend in home décor in Washingtonian Magazine.