Introduction to Environmental Health

Environmental health has deep roots in social action, including longstanding Indigenous efforts to protect environmental and community health, grassroots organizing that helped establish Earth Day and modern environmentalism, the emergence of the environmental justice movement, and ongoing community-led efforts to advance environmental health protections. I would like to build on this history and continued practice by creating opportunities for students to move beyond understanding what environmental health issues exist to identifying solutions and actively working toward meaningful change. Through this program, I hope to develop approaches that help students build transferable skills in collaboration, communication, advocacy, and civic engagement while connecting what they learn in the classroom to action in their own communities.

Exploration of the complex interactions between human health outcomes

Kameko Washburn Scholarly Assistant Professor Psychology Department | Public Health Program Washington State University Vancouver