School of Public Health

Forty percent of food in the United States—much of it healthy and edible—goes uneaten. It ends up in landfills and produces methane emissions that are 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

Before Seattle increased the minimum wage, many local businesses said they planned to raise prices in order to cover higher payroll costs.

Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of Cape Town in South Africa plan to partner on a two-year study to test a lower-cost, simpler and safer method in diagnosing tuberculosis (TB).

A team of students from the University of Washington School of Public Health will is poised to act when the next disease outbreak hits the Seattle area.