Since it started in 1995, STAR has become the EPA's primary way of funding extramural environmental research.
With these sources, we developed a logic model that defines the components and linkages between extramural environmental health research grant programs and the outputs and outcomes related to health and social welfare, environmental quality and sustainability, economics, and quality of life.
Supporting the nation's top environmental health researchers through extramural grants is a critical part of the NIEHS's nanotechnology research strategy.
The program includes basic health care teams, comprised of a physician, a nurse, two community health workers, and an environmental technician who either provide intra- or extramural services.
This consultative service, available through the Katrina website, is linked to experts in our intramural and extramural research programs who have provided informed responses to specific environmental health concerns of residents, healthcare providers, and workers involved in the rescue and recovery efforts.
But Dr. Winn, head of the extramural epidemiology program at the National Cancer Institute, which conducts studies to look for environmental causes of cancer, does not tell women that pollutants are the cause.
Under this rubric, CRIS coordinates the institute's extramural efforts to define how the entire genetic complement of an organism responds to environmental agents.
The goal of the extramural research program of the NIEHS is to fund the highest-quality science to understand how environmental exposures contribute to the development and progression of human diseases.
As part of its broad mission to understand the interplay between environmental factors and genetic susceptibility in human health and disease, the NIEHS has an active extramural research program in neuroscience, particularly in the areas of neurodevelopment and neurodegeneration.
The NIEHS extramural and intramural research portfolios support a variety of projects that develop and validate biomarkers for use in environmental health science and risk assessment.
The Center for Risk and Integrated Sciences CRISS) is charged with guiding NIEHS extramural research in three main areas: hazardous substance research, "omics" research, and the development and application of emerging technologies in the environmental health sciences.
