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Individuals are exposed to a multitude of environmental factors that, together with genetic inheritance, determine risk of disease. These factors include not only environmental chemical, physical, and biological agents, but also psychosocial stressors that are associated with poverty, race, ethnicity, and other social conditions. Some combination of these factors appears to determine risk for many […]

Since 2004, an innovative methodology to estimate a toddler’s exposure to environmental toxicants has been developed and validated at EOHSI.  In response to concerns raised over the EPA CHEERS program, an ethical and practical alternative for measuring childhood exposures has been a priority. Dr. Stuart Shalat, with Drs. Gedi Mainelis and Paul Lioy, have explored […]

To identify environmental risk factors for chronic disease in children, the U.S. Congress directed the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) through the Children’s Health Act of 2000 to undertake the National Children’s Study, a prospective study of a nationally representative cohort of 100,000 U.S.-born children to be followed from pregnancy to […]

Facebook Twitter Youtube EOHSI Research FAA Center of Excellence: Airliner Cabin Environment FAA Center Team: Kathie Kelly-McNeil, Kris Mohan, Cliff Weisel, Charles Weschler UMDNJ-EOHSI is partner university within the FAA Center of Excellence on Airliner Cabin Environment Research. The Center’s goal is to conduct scientific research to support FAA’s and the flight industry’s mandates to […]