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Welcome
Scientific discoveries, new tools, and improved approaches have rapidly expanded the field of environmental
health—the study of environmental influences on human health and disease. Evaluating the utility and
importance of findings derived from these new tools and new approaches in guiding public health decisions can
be a daunting challenge. At the request of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, the
National Academies formed the Standing Committee on Use of Emerging Science for Environmental Health
Decisions to facilitate communication among government, industry, environmental groups, and the academic
community about scientific advances that may be used in the identification, quantification, and control of
environmental impacts on human health. New methods and approaches that can be used to identify and
control environmental impacts on human health are explored in regular workshops that provide a public venue
for exchanging information and discussing potential implications for environmental health decisions.

Upcoming Events What’s New

July 21-22, 2014: Meeting proceedings from the Integrating

Environmental Health Data to Advance Discovery
Topic: The Potential of the Tissue Chip for meeting held January 10-11, 2013. The video
Environmental Health Studies presentations on YouTube and PDF versions of
presentations can be accessed here.

Recent Newsletters:
Recent Events Emerging Technologies for Measuring Individual
Exposomes

Integrating Environmental Health Data to Advance

Discovery (Washington, DC), January 10-11, 2013 How New Toxicology Can Catalyze Green
More Information Chemistry (PDF)

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