The Milken Institute School of Public Health is number seven among U.S. colleges for a major in public health, according to a 2015 ranking. Other achievements, publications, presentations and news coverage of EOH professors, lecturers, students and staff in the Spring 2016 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health newsletter include:
- Student and alumni accomplishments: In May, 12 MPH students graduated from the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. Recent MPH alumni coauthored important publications, including one that inspired an international debate on the presence of an unexpected chemical in fast foods. A group of current students made a light-hearted yet thought-provoking video.
- At the White House: Two key EOH faculty and eight alumni and students attended a White House event on the implications of climate change and public health. A student also earned an invitation to a White House party.
- Event at GW: The director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences came to the Milken Institute School of Public Health for an event on children’s health that also featured two EOH faculty members.
- Awards, publications and presentations: In addition to earning awards, our faculty, staff, and students published and presented on a wide range of topics. Superbugs, climate change preparedness, cancer evaluations, links between food and both pneumonia and urinary tract infections, risks associated with abandoned hazardous waste sites, and the impacts of schools’ indoor air quality on academic achievement are but a few of the subjects our researchers are investigating.
- In the news: Find links to the widespread coverage of research by EOH faculty, staff, and students, including more than 800 news articles, opinion pieces, radio interviews, and blog posts written by or quoting EOH faculty and staff. Media outlets including NBC News, CBS News, The Today Show, the Associated Press, the PBS Newshour, and Salon published what people affiliated with our department had to say.
See the Spring 2016 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health newsletter for details and more, including the downside to raising guinea pigs in Peruvian homes.