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EPA Human Health Research

EPA's Human Health Research Program focuses on reducing uncertainty in the science underlying human health risk assessment. The program also conducts research into methods of measuring public health outcomes resulting from risk management practices.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program has an unambiguous, focused design, and there is no evidence of major flaws that would limit the program's effectiveness or efficiency. An independent review board at EPA found evidence that clients regularly participate in research planning and design, and that the program's research outputs had been used by clients and stakeholders to address the program's purpose.
  • The program has meaningful annual and long-term performance measures that are based on client use of the program's research outputs. However, the targets for the long-term measures are not verifiably ambitious and fail to define what outcomes would represent a successful program. It is not clear that these targets will promote continued program improvement.
  • The program's research results are being used to reduce uncertainty in risk assessment, but the program needs more data and clearer long-term targets to show that it is making continued progress.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Improving the program's ability to link budget resources to performance.
  • Developing ambitious long-term performance targets that clearly define a successful program and promote continued improvement.
  • Implementing follow-up recommendations from a recent independent expert review.

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