Environment & Public Health

A rapidly changing environment brings new health challenges, and UArizona faculty address these issues through interdisciplinary projects, ranging from managing public health crises, to water and food contamination, to the connections between health and climate change.

Our research

Engineering Better Health

Environmental contaminants can pose a major health risk. Enter Paloma Beamer, whose work in exposure science aims to protect even the most vulnerable among us.

The argument for plastic straws

Lots of colorful plastic straws with flexible bodies stuck together in a glass. Some of them are sticking out. In the background there are some more thrown around on the table.

UBRP Conference showcases undergraduates' biology research

Over 100 University of Arizona undergraduate researchers presented their work at the 31st annual Undergraduate Biology Research Program Conference in the Environmental and Natural Resources 2 building on Saturday, Jan. 25. This conference served as a public showcase of the work UBRP students completed during their time in the program.