NIEHS Director Rick Woychik Presents Strategic Plan Priorities
NIEHS Director Rick Woychik, PhD, visited the Chan School on September 9, 2024. Following meetings with faculty members, Woychik gave a lecture titled “Planning Future Directions for Environmental Health Sciences.” He shared the NIEHS’s approach to environmental health as outlined in its FY2025-2029 Strategic Plan, including the six NIEHS research areas of emphasis: climate change impacts on human health; data science and computational biology; environmental health disparities, environmental justice, and health equity; exposomics; mechanistic biology and toxicology; and precision environmental health. He invited the audience to review the strategic plan and then to submit bold predictions to the question ‘How will implementing the new NIEHS strategic plan change global human health in the next 5-10 years?
