Our department is a leader in training students to identify environmental and occupational health risks and investigate practices and policies to mitigate those harms.
News
A civic science conversation with Maureen Lichtveld
The transdisciplinary One Health approach underlines the complexity of interactions between natural and human environments and health—an area where Dr. Maureen Lichtveld says artificial intelligence is becoming an important tool for combining and assessing a vast array of data sources. It also makes data collection in partnership with vulnerable populations—where funding is “less than minimal”—all the more important, she says.
How to take a climate and health history
Researchers led by Maureen Lichtveld, MD, MPH, dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, propose a practical approach for integrating climate-related health risks into routine clinical care in a new article published in the Annals of Global Health.
Pitt’s CESF awards community impact in the Health Sciences
Tina Ndoh, associate professor of environmental and occupational health and associate dean for public health practice, School of Public Health, was recognized with a Pitt’s Community Engaged Scholarship Forum (CESF) Collaboration Champion award. These individual awards are given to Pitt community members and partners who’ve made significant contributions to Pitt’s culture of collaboration.