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The mission of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health is to study and elucidate the health effects of exposure to chemical, physical, and biological agents encountered in the workplace or general environment.
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News
It takes two: Undergraduate students thrive at Pitt Public Health
Two School of Public Health undergraduate students will be presenting scientific posters of their research at the annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology, March 10-14, in Salt Lake City.
Responding to the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment
Assistant Professors of Environmental and Occupational Health Peng Gao and Juliane Beier awarded NIEHS grants to study health effects in East Palestine, Ohio.
Monitors find high levels of toxic benzene near Clairton Coke Works
“Benzene is well known to be able to produce leukemia in people that have been exposed for a long period of time,” said Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health James Fabisiak.