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

• 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

• Tools and databases to support children's health protective decisions
• 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 21^st Century
• Sustainable and Healthy Tribes

Full listing of all EPA-funded external children's environmental health research

Additional Resources

• Children's environmental health-related science publications
• Children's Environmental Health Research Roadmap (PDF)(128 pp, 4 MB, October 2015)