The Harvard Chan National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Center for Environmental Health is a coordinated set of resources and facilities supporting environmental health research and training activities throughout the greater Boston area. The center promotes integration between basic and applied environmental science, and fosters collaborations that cross departmental and institutional boundaries.
Harvard Chan NIEHS Center 2024 Retreat attendees view and discuss pilot project posters
Core Components
The Harvard Chan NIEHS Center for Environmental Health builds research capacity, fosters multidisciplinary and translational research, and prioritizes community engagement.
Support across all four of the Center’s pillars of research excellence—Epidemiology, Exposures, Mechanisms, and Community Science—and integration of activities.
Centralized support and training in data management, research computing, biostatistics, statistical genetics, bioinformatics, environmental epidemiology, and spatial statistics.
Partnership with community organizations and initiatives to co-develop strategies that address local, regional and national environmental health concerns.
Financial support, mentoring, professional network building, and general guidance for new investigators.
About the Center
Populations to pathways to prevention: Environmental health science to empower action
Mission: To understand the contribution of environmental exposures to disease to empower action to prevent disease and improve public health, and address real-world environmental health issues faced by communities by promoting collaborations, partnerships, and translation.
Vision: To foster multidisciplinary collaborations to conduct innovative environmental health science research that nimbly addresses the current and future challenges of a complex environmental health exposure space.
Dr. Marc Weisskopf, Director of the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center, speaks at the Better Health for All Summit dinner. Credit Kent Dayton
Dr. Rick Woychik, Director of NIEHS, speaks at the Chan School on September 9, 2024
PhD candidate and TA Marshae Nickelberry (right) works with a participant at the 2024 Community Exposures and Health Boot Camp. Credit Kent Dayton
Gary Adamkiewicz presents at the 2024 Community Exposures and Health Boot Camp. Credit Kent Dayton
Better Health for All Summit panel speakers Rebekka Lee, Osasenaga Idahor, Mary Rice, and David Cash. Credit Sarah Unninayar
Environmental Health Chair and Harvard Chan NIEHS Center Member Kari Nadeau presents at the 2024 Community Exposures and Health Boot Camp. Credit Sarah Unninayar
Tamarra James-Todd and Linda Villarosa participate in a fireside chat at the Better Health for All Summit.
PhD candidate Mashae Nickelberry discusses her research with Dr. Nick Nassikas at the Harvard Chan NIEHS Center Retreat, November 12, 2024
At the Better Health for All Summit, Jennifer Barkin hosts the Innovations in Women’s Health panel with Shruthi Mahalingaiah, Brandy Watts, and Kathy Rexrode. Credit Joe Mikos
The Harvard Chan NIEHS Center hosts guest lecturers like Dr. Adetoun Mustapha of Lead City University, Nigeria. (Left to right: Tamarra James-Todd, Gary Adamkiewicz, Adetoun Mustapha, and Sarah Unninayar)
Tamarra James-Todd and Linda Villarosa hold a fireside chat at the Better Health Summit Dinner (Credit: Kent Dayton).
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