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SWEHSC had the opportunity to help plan the 2025 Tribal Environmental Health Forum, helping professionals, researchers, and communities unite to help tackle the needs of Arizona's Tribal communities.

The Water Resources Research Center Conference highlighted the collaboration between state borders to help address water issues happening across the Southwest.

Six teams of University of Arizona experts who presented proposals to accelerate transdisciplinary projects with the potential to transform lives, shape policy, drive economic impact and provide training for the next generation of talent have been chosen as the 2025 Big Idea Challenge awardees.

A report released on Thursday by the presidential Make America Healthy Again commission raised concerns about the potential health effects of pesticides on American children, but it stopped short of calling the chemicals unsafe.

The mix of chemicals in the atmosphere, and hotter and longer days during the summer, lead to more air quality alerts.

The Skoll Foundation has committed $5 million to enable the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health to study public health threats brought on by pandemics and educate a new generation of adaptive and technologically adept public health professionals.

A new study published by the University of Arizona scientists found that firefighters aren’t the only frontline workers exposed to PFAS. Health care workers also had elevated levels of two specific chemicals in their blood.

Professor Kacey Ernst is passionate about studying the intersection between disease and climate change.

The University is honoring 27 faculty members with Distinguished Faculty Awards in recognition of their service to students, colleagues, communities, and the university's mission and land-grant values.

Recently published results from a research study by Cedar Mitchell, PhD, Kate Ellingson, PhD, Jeff Burgess, MD, MPH, MS, and others, sought to assess the differences in blood concentrations of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) among a range of frontline workers in Arizona. The findings reveal that, compared to other essential workers, firefighters have higher concentrations of certain PFAS, and healthcare workers have more frequent detection of other PFAS, in their blood.