Extramural Research - Environment, Health and Society (EHS)
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Environmental Justice: What's Science Got to Do With It?
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Deborah Guadalupe Duran to lead strategic planning for health disparities research at NIH’s NIMHD
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New Federal Action Plan for Reducing Racial and Ethnic Asthma Disparities
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EPA Struggles To Address Role Of Social Stressors In Environmental Risk
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Taking Steps to Protect your Family from Lead Exposure
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Special Announcements
- The "Pathways to Environmental Justice: Advancing a Framework for Evaluation" (PDF) (48 pp, 3.66 MB) report is now available. The report grew out of discussions at Closing the Environmental Justice Gap: A Workshop on Advancing Evaluation Methods (PDF) (12 pp, 5.87 MB) which was co-sponsored by EPA's National Center for Environmental Research and UCLA's Luskin Center for Innovation last September.
Cumulative Risk Assessment 2012 Webinar Series:
August 29, 2012 webinar now available - View Webinar
September 26, 2012 webinar now available - View Webinar
October 17, 2012 webinar now available - View Webinar
November 28, 2012 webinar now available - View Webinar
December 19, 2012 - View Webinar
What is EHS and Why is it Important?
Human and ecosystem health involves both individual factors such as pollution, stress, resource distribution, and the interactions of these and thousands of other factors. Traditionally, research in the physical and social sciences was segregated and designed to examine individual components in isolation. We now know that it is necessary to study the interactions among many factors to explain both human and environmental health.
EPA's Environment, Health and Society (EHS) research program seeks to understand these relationships and develop solutions to environmental and health inequalities among low income, minority, underserved and overburdened communities in the United States. EHS is an umbrella program of relevant extramural research and has, to start, four theme areas: Environmental Justice, Health Disparities and the Environment, Environmental Decision Making and Social Dimensions of the Environment and Environmental Protection.
Research to Support Environmental Justice
Health Disparities and the Environment
Social Dimensions of the Environment and Environmental Protection