NIEHS Celebrates 50 Years of Environmental Health Research at the NIH

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA About This Article open Citation: Birnbaum LS. 2016. NIEHS celebrates 50 years of environmental health research at the NIH. Environ Health Perspect 124:A5; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1511015 E-mail: birnbaumls@niehs.nih.gov The author declares she has no actual or potential competing financial interests. Final Publication: 1 January 2016 PDF Version (177 KB) On 1 November 2016 the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) will celebrate its 50th anniversary, five decades after the U.S. Surgeon General announced the establishment of the Division of Environmental Health Sciences at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Today, from its home in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, the NIEHS funds more than $750 million in research each year to discover how the environment influences human health and disease. It is my honor and privilege to serve as the NIEHS director during this significant milestone in the institute’s history, and I see it as an opportunity to highlight the improvements to public health that have resulted from environmental science research. I also want to bring together health researchers supported by the NIEHS, and the NIH as a whole, for networking and collaboration. I’m really exci...
Source: EHP Research - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tags: Editorial January 2016 Source Type: research