COEH (Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health)

08/10/2026

📢 The UK Silicosis Dashboard launches today 📢

🔎 Explore the dashboard ➡️ https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/thor/silicosis-dashboard/

18/09/2026

It's ! 2021-2025 EPIDERM data from

highlights the ongoing impact of work-related skin disease.👏Thanks to all reporting dermatologists who contribute to the scheme. 🔗 Read more and join the network: https://bit.ly/4xYpGRB

11/10/2022

Watch this years Lane Lecture 2022 - Have Workplace Studies had their day?, with Guest Speaker Professor Nicola Cherry

With guest speaker Professor Nicola CherryLecture and Q&A session

10/02/2022

We've had a wonderful start to the year with the semester launch for our year 2 postgraduate students this morning!

09/02/2022

Are you looking to take the FOM DOccMed? If so, we still have some places on our Occupational Medicine CPD course! This 6 month course will prepare you for the DOccMed examination and enhance your knowledge on health and safety at work. The deadline for March intake is 31st March 2022. Please see more details via the link below:

Learn about the CPD in Occupational Medicine course at The University of Manchester's Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health.

07/10/2021

Our last launch event of the semester finished earlier today. We've had a wonderful few days on zoom with our new postgrad students! Welcome everyone, we hope you are excited to start your courses!

21/09/2021

Congratulations to Jans who has received an award for best MSc Occupational Hygiene student on our programme from the British Occupational Hygiene Society for 2020/21. Well done Jans!

08/09/2021

Our 3rd year MSc students are about to embark on their dissertations. We've been hosting a virtual 3 day dissertation workshop to ready them to undertake this piece of work. Check out their smiling faces below!

We are still accepting applications for our MSc courses until 30th September for both the full and part-time options:
MSc Occupational Hygiene - http://man.ac.uk/JKT8uh
MSc Occupational Medicine - http://man.ac.uk/8pQPtN

27/08/2021

Are you, or someone you know, interested in gaining an occupational health qualification? There is still time to enrol in our MSc in Occupational Medicine or MSc Occupational Hygiene courses for September 2021 entry, now available as full time course (1 yr) as well as part-time (2 or 3 years). Check out further details via the links below:

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/masters/courses/list/07886/msc-occupational-medicine/

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/masters/courses/list/07884/msc-occupational-hygiene/

Our MSc Occupational Hygiene course show you best practice in the evaluation and control of occupational health hazards for worker health protection.

16/04/2021

Our new paper "Risk factors associated with respiratory infectious disease-related presenteeism: a rapid review" is now in pre-print in the MedRivx database (link below).

The paper gives evidence for workplace pressures that leads to presenteeism and their relevance to the risk of respiratory infectious disease (RID), including COVID-19. It also gives recommendations for workplace policies that can be used to reduce RID-related presenteeism.

Read the paper here:

Background: Workplace transmission is a significant contributor to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreaks. Previous studies have found that infectious illness presenteeism could contribute to outbreaks in occupational settings and identified multiple occupational and....