About Us

Our Vision

The environment is a key determinant of human health. Solutions to the 21st Century’s most pressing health issues require a collaborative, creative, and sustained commitment to research, education, and community engagement related to how the environment influences health across the lifespan.

Our Mission

To accelerate scientific discoveries and promote solutions to key issues related to the impact of the environment on human health.

• Foster scientific discovery, innovation, and transformation of ideas and information into actions;
• Develop and support a thriving, diverse, and inclusive environmental health science team that will lead to high-impact efforts at the local, regional, national, and international levels;
• Integrate environmental determinants of health into research, clinical, and public health practices to improve human health and reduce disease;
• Increase broad recognition among clinicians, researchers, and community stakeholders that the environment is a key determinant of human health;
• Create and implement solutions to critical problems caused by environmental impacts on health.