Working with a Coalition of Environmental Health Organizations that Support the NIEHS Mission
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NIEHS Partners meet with Dr. Linda S. Birnbaum, NIEHS and NTP Director, on the NIH campus, Bethesda, MD.
NIEHS director and staff meet periodically with the Partners to seek input and improve communications with communities and organizations directly affected by the mission and the research of NIEHS.
The Partner members represent:
- disease and patient advocacy groups for diseases such as asthma and other lung diseases, breast cancer, prostate cancer, Parkinson's Disease, birth defects, autism, lupus, and others;
- at-risk groups who may be particularly susceptible to environmental effects such as children, women, and under-served communities; and
- environmental organizations.
Working with the Partners allows NIEHS to learn more about the priorities of these organizations, and helps to shape the institute’s research agenda. In turn, these organizations learn about NIEHS research enterprise and about the other partner organizations. The Partners are powerful voices for environmental health issues.
Contact
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John Schelp, M.P.A.
Special Assistant for Community Engagement and Outreach -
Tel 984-287-3317
schelp@niehs.nih.gov
NIEHS Partners
- ALS Association
- Alzheimer's Association
- American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association
- American Cancer Society
- American Lung Association
- American Public Health Association
- Association of Women's Health, Obstetric & Neonatal Nurses
- Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
- Autism Speaks
- Birth Defect Research for Children
- Breast Cancer Prevention Partners
- Children's Environmental Health Network
- Collaborative on Health & the Environment
- Communities for a Better Environment
- DES Action USA
- Endometriosis Association
- Environment and Energy Study Institute
- Huntington Breast Cancer Action Coalition
- National Breast Cancer Coalition
- National Center for Environmental Health Strategies
- Safe Minds
- Society for Women's Health Research
- The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
- West Harlem Environmental Action
- Zero Breast Cancer
Annual Partners meeting in Friendship Heights, Md.
Related Resources
- Unique group gathers at NIEHS to talk environmental health – Environmental Factor, December 2016
- Annual Partners meeting fosters fruitful exchange - Environmental Factor, January 2016
- Brochures & Fact Sheets
Fact sheets about how exposure to environmental agents may affect our health. - Get Involved at NIH
A Web site of information about public activities and events, and opportunities to provide feedback to NIH. - Your Environment. Your Health. (NIEHS Pocket Card) (102KB)
- The Public Interest Liaison Group’s Contribution to the Future of Environmental Health Research (295KB)
Lisa M. Greenhill, from Goehl TJ, ed. 2005. Essays on The Future of Environmental Health Research: A Tribute to Dr. Kenneth Olden. Research Triangle Park, NC:Environmental Health Perspectives/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
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