Science and Technology: Health
The goal of EPA's human health research is to improve our scientific knowledge base and to develop tools and methods to enable the Agency to identify and characterize human health impacts associated with environmental exposures.
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Human Health Science
Science at EPA provides the foundation for credible decision-making to safeguard human health and ecosystems from environmental pollutants.
Research Programs
- Human Health Research Program
- Endocrine Disruptor Research
- Computational Toxicology Research Program
- Exposure Research
- Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences
- Health and Air Quality
- Particulate Matter and Health Outcomes
- Human Health Risk Assessment
Tools and Technology
Health Effects Due to Pollutant
EPA uses the results of scientific research to help identify linkages between exposure to environmental contaminants and certain diseases, conditions, or other health outcomes.
Air and Radiation
- Health Effects Notebook for Hazardous Air Pollutants
- Climate Change: Health and Environmental Effects
- Radon Health Risks
- Radionuclide Carcinogenicity Slope Factors - HEAST
- Secondhand Smoke
Water
- Water Quality: Human Health Criteria
- Drinking Water Health Advisories and Science Support
- Fish Advisories: Technical Information
Pesticides, Chemicals and Toxins
Life Stages and Susceptible Populations
Your age can make a difference for risk to pollutants in the environment, either because you may be more highly exposed, or because you may have a greater response to exposures.
Research Programs
- Life Stages Research
- Children's Health Research
- America's Children and the Environment
- Children's Environmental Health Centers
- Children's Health Protection
Tools and Technology
Risk and Exposure
EPA considers risk to be the chance of harmful effects to human health or to ecological systems resulting from exposure to an environmental stressor.
Risk Assessment
- Risk Assessment Portal
- Human Health Risk Tools
- Pollutant Fate and Transport, Human Exposure, Toxicology and Risk Assessment
- Community Based Risk Assessment
Risk, by Program or Substance
- Superfund Human Health Risks
- Criteria Pollutants: Fate, Exposure & Risk Analysis
- Radioactivity Risk Assessment
- Assessing Pesticide Cumulative Risk
Exposure
Top Questions: Health
Related Topics
Featured Resource
Data Sources Available for Modeling Environmental Exposures in Older Adults - This report discusses the information currently available for studying and modeling the unique factors that shape seniors’ exposure, including their day-to-day habits, activity levels, and the environments older adults typically live and work in.
GEMS: Great Environmental Moments in Science