Children's Environmental Health Research
EPA conducts children’s environmental health research to inform public health decisions, to advance scientific understanding of potential early life susceptibility to environmental stressors, and to inform community efforts that create sustainable and healthy environments protective of children’s health.
Hot Topics
- Lead research
- Federal Research on Recycled Tire Crumb Used on Playing Fields and action plan
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Developing a Systems-Level Approach to Protect Children's Health (Science Matters)
Children's Health Topics
- Pre-term birth, low birth weight, birth defects and infant mortality
- Asthma
- Impacts on behavior, learning, IQ
- Obesity and metabolic syndrome
- Prenatal and early life exposure and long-term health consequences
Tools, Databases and Partnerships
External EPA-Funded Children’s Health Research
- NIEHS/EPA Children's Centers
- Healthy Schools
- Clean Air Centers
- Organotypic Cell Culture Models
- Exposure Science in the 21st Century
- Sustainable and Healthy Tribes
Full listing of all EPA-funded external children's environmental health research