Letter from the New Editor-in-Chief: My Perspective on Environmental Health Perspectives

Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Health Perspectives About This Article open Citation: Darney SP. 2015. Letter from the new Editor-in-Chief: my perspective on Environmental Health Perspectives. Environ Health Perspect 123:A225; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1510617. E-mail: sally.darney@nih.gov Final Publication: 1 September 2015 PDF Version (111 KB) As I come onboard as Editor-in-Chief of EHP this month, I’d like to share my thoughts with you about a vision for taking EHP to the next level. With an impact factor of 7.98, EHP has become the “go to” journal for research and news about each sector of environmental health. Now is the time to link these sectors and bring systems thinking to bear on the field. Inter- and transdisciplinary research approaches are being applied to bridge the many factors in the built and natural environments that interact to impact health, including a complex array of social determinants. Real-world scenarios, where environmental risks and benefits are all too often unevenly distributed, also bring environmental justice to the research stage. Advances in our mechanistic understanding of how chemical, physical, and psychosocial stressors interact to influence our biological responses, for better or worse, provide avenues for more informed risk assessment, innovative intervention strategies, and more effective policy making. New approaches for monitoring and modeling environmental exposures are helping us better assess, predict, and p...
Source: EHP Research - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tags: Editorial Featured September 2015 Source Type: research