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Environmental Health

Environmental health refers to the area of public health that aims to identify environmental hazards and examine how they are shaped by physical, chemical, biological, social, and structural factors. These hazards can be evaluated at the global scale (e.g., climate change) as well as from regional or local perspectives (e.g., air pollution, waste management, neighborhood design).

Some issues of environmental health are rural, such as the impact of dam construction of the prevalence of parasitic disease. Others are concentrated in urban areas and stem from the built form of the city and the presence of toxins in this environment.

Questions of environmental health are mitigated by race, gender, class, and geography. Importantly, environmental exposures are often concentrated among underserved communities, and thus the field of environmental health is closely connected to questions of environmental justice and environmental racism.

UCSC faculty from the Biological Sciences, the Social Sciences, and the Humanities are working together to better understand the historical and structural relations that link human communities to the material environment, the environmental determinants of human health, and how the disproportionate impact of environmental threats to human health on underserved communities and those in the Global South might be reduced.

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Anna Tsing

Anna Tsing

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Anthropology

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Carrie Patch

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Chemistry and Biochemistry

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Chad Saltikov

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Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology

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Chris Benner

Professor/Director, Inst. for Social Transformation & Everett Program

Env. Studies & Sociology

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Donald Smith

Professor

Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology, Chemistry & Biochemistry

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Fitnat Yildiz

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Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology

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Flora Lu

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Environmental Studies

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Jennifer Derr

Associate Professor

History

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Jennifer Maytorena Taylor

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Film and Digital Media

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Julie Guthman

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Community Studies, Environmental Studies

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Lindsey Dillon

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Sociology

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Madeleine Fairbairn

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Environmental Studies

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Mary Beth Pudup

Mary Beth Pudup

Associate Professor

Community Studies

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Pallab Sarker

Associate Research Professor

Environmental Studies

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Raquel Chamorro-Garcia

Assistant Professor

Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology

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Ravi Rajan

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Environmental Studies

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Stacy Philpott

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