Tania Busch Isaksen

Senior Lecturer, University of Washington

Tania Busch Isaksen is a Senior Lecturer and the Undergraduate Program Coordinator for the Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS), as well as a Clinical Associate Professor for the Department of Health Services. In addition to her teaching and administrative responsibilities, she maintains an active, practice-based research portfolio focused on public health outcomes associated with extreme heat and wildfire smoke exposures; risk communication methods; climate change-related public health adaptation planning and response, sustainable materials management, and occupational health and safety risks in the cannabis industry. Tania has over 25 years of environmental public health experience working in local public, private, and academic settings. She earned her PhD from the UW in Environmental and Occupational Hygiene, her MPH from the University of Washington’s eMPH Program, and her BS in Environmental Health from Colorado State University.