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  • 135 Dauer Drive
  • 166 Rosenau Hall, CB #7431
  • Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7431
  • (919) 966-1171

Healthy people, healthy planet

Our Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering focuses on the interface between people and the environment. Uniquely situated in a school of public health, our interdisciplinary programs in air quality and atmospheric processes, human exposure and health effects, safe and sustainable water resources, climate change and One Health draw from faculty expertise in the physical and life sciences, engineering and policy.

Our research strengths include:

  • Characterizing exposures to contaminants in air, water, soil and workplaces
  • Developing engineering and policy solutions to environmental risks
  • Using molecular approaches to understanding diseases caused by toxic substances in the environment
  • Overcoming environmental health challenges in developing countries
Save the Date for our Centennial Celebration (2020-2021).
The official kick-off begins fall 2020. Our centennial celebration will be April 10, 2021.
The official logo of ESE's centennial celebration

Message from the Chair

Barbara Turpin, PhD
Professor and Chair
"We are the nation's first Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering in a school of public health, and the Gillings School is the top public school of public health in the United States. Our graduates are innovative problem-solvers who are particularly well-prepared to design and implement effective environmental health solutions..."
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