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We are located in Room MS A-503

635 Barnhill Drive

Indianapolis, IN 46202 l

Ph :- 317.274.7824
 

  

 
Our Mission

The mission of the Indiana University Center for Environmental Health is to foster excellence in scientific research, training, and outreach in environmental health with a goal of identifying, understanding and preventing environmentally related diseases covering the human life span. Locally, environmentally driven human disease costs the State of Indiana jobs and potential revenue, and negatively impacts the quality of life and the economy of the State. The IU School of Medicine and IUPUI campus provide an ideal setting for coordinated effort in Environmental Health Sciences. The combination of academic health science research, environmental research, county and state public health programs, state environmental programs, information technology, and centers for environmental policy and earth and environmental science are all located on or near the IUPUI campus. Thus this location provides an excellent geographic and philosophical template to foster understanding and improvement of human health and the environment.

The goal of the Center is to be a nationally and internationally recognized center for Environmental Health.

 
Program Organization
IUCEH Program Organization  
 The Indiana University Center for Environmental Health's is currently concentrating in three areas:
  • The Center for Environmental Health serves to nucleate and support interdisciplinary research programs bridging environmental analysis with human health through both basic and applied research.  The center cultivates external grant proposal development in Environmental Health Sciences. 

  • The academic mission of the Center will be to foster graduate and post-graduate training. This mission will be achieved through seminar series, retreats, interactions between individual center members and research work on collaborative grants.

  • Outreach and research translation are critical for communicating the importance of activities and findings to the research community, the public, regulators and decision makers.  Research translation will come in the form of news bulletins, a website, and a newsletter, as well as outside publications. The Center for Environmental Health also provides an independent third party resource to regulators, state and federal agencies, industry and non-government organizations on environmental and environmental health issues.  This includes Panel formation, development of Issue Papers and consultation on environmental health issues.
Objectives
IUCEH Objectives  

The objectives of the Center for Environmental Health include:

  • To nucleate and support interdisciplinary research programs bridging environmental analysis with human health
  • To enhance the quality of life of people in Indiana and around the world
  • To cultivate external grant proposal development in Environmental Health Sciences
  • To maximize resource use efficiency in the health sciences, environmental sciences, and information technology
  • To develop training programs to equip individual, pre and post doctoral students with the knowledge to integrate environmental and health issues
  • To provide outreach in Environmental Health to the community, to local, state, and national regulators, and to policy makers.

Upcoming Events IUCEH

April 14 - 17, 2008

Toxicology and Risk Assessment Conference (TRAC) 
Cincinnati, Ohio

Dr. Klaunig, director of the IU Center for Environmental Health, will be presenting on the topic of the role of oxidative stress and oxidative damage in chemical carcinogenesis at the TRAC 2008. The Toxicology and Risk Assessment Conference is organized to allow scientists and toxicologists to come together to discuss emerging issues and challenges in risk assessment. read more

 

March 16 - 20, 2008

47th Annual Meeting of the Society of  Toxicology
Seattle, Washington

The Annual Society of Toxicology meeting is the largest toxicology meeting and exhibition in the world, attracting around 6,000 scientists from industry, academia, and government. This five day event is composed of lectures, symposia, workshops, roundtable discussions, and platform and poster presentations. read more

 

January 28 - 30, 2008

The 33rd Annual Winter Meeting of the Toxicology Forum
Washington, DC

The mission of The Toxicology Forum is to encourage open dialogue on human health and environmental issues that drive public concerns, academic involvement, industry action and regulatory decision making.  This is accomplished through organizing and conducting meetings among government granting and regulatory agencies, the scientific community (academia, government, and industry), and public interest groups. read more

 

January 18 - 23, 2008

2008 ILSI Annual Meeting
Rio Mar, Puerto Rico

The Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) is a nonprofit institution whose mission is to stimulate and support scientific research and educational programs that contribute to the identification and resolution of health and environmental issues of concern to the public, scientific community, government agencies, and industry. read more