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
- The Chalkboard: Our Regular Spotlight on the Latest Children's Environmental Health Research Highlights
- Renovated Housing Linked to Decrease in Childhood Asthma Rate in Cincinnati Neighborhood
- Highlights from the Children's Environmental Health Workshop Hosted by National Academies
- Federal Research on Recycled Tire Crumb Used on Playing Fields and Action Plan
- Developing a Systems-Level Approach to Protect Children's Health (Science Matters)
Children's Health Research Topics
- Asthma
- Lead (Pb) Research
- Impacts on Behavior, Learning, and IQ
- Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome
- Prenatal and Early Life Exposure and Long-Term Health Consequences
- Pre-Term Birth, Low Birth Weight, Birth Defects and Infant Mortality
Breastfeeding & Environmental Contaminants Research
EPA has worked to develop methods for collection, analysis, and modeling of human milk to create the scientific foundation to integrate breast milk into human health risk assessments. Learn more about breastfeeding and environmental chemicals.
- Child-Specific Exposure Scenario Examples
- Improving the Risk Assessment of Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemicals in Breast Milk: Workshop Summary Report
- Exposure Factors Handbook: Chapter 15 Human Milk Intake
- Issue Paper On Physiological and Behavioral Changes In Pregnant And Lactating Women And Available Exposure Factors
- Human Milk Biomonitoring Data: Interpretation And Risk Assessment Issues
Tools, Publications, Databases & Partnerships
- America's Children and the Environment
- Children's Environmental Health-Related Science Publications
- Tools and Databases to Support Children's Health Protective Decisions
- Partnerships
External EPA-Funded Children’s Health Research
Find a full listing of all EPA-funded external children's environmental health research.
- Children's Environmental Health: Proceedings of a Workshop (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2023)
- NIEHS/EPA Children's Centers
- Healthy Schools Research Grants
- Clean Air Centers
- Organotypic Cell Culture Models
- Exposure Science in the 21st Century
- Sustainable and Healthy Tribes