Health Science Resources
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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
- Environment, Health and Society
- Human Health Research
- Community Public Health Research
- Health and Environmental Justice
- Children's Environmental Health
- Health Impact Assessments
Tools and Technology
- Eco-Health Relationship Browser
- Health Models, Databases and Tools
- Chemical Safety Models, Databases and Tools
- Health & Environmental Research Online (HERO)
- Benchmark Dose Software (BMDS)
- Virtual Tissue Models: Predicting How Chemicals Impact Development
Exposure
EPA's exposure science leads to improved methods, measurements and models to assess and predict exposures of humans and ecosystems to harmful environmental stressors.
Research
- National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL)
- Exposure Factors Program
- Children's Health Protection
- Report on the Environment: Human Exposure and Health
Tools and Technology
- EPA Expo Box
- Community-Focused Exposure and Risk Screening Tool (C-FERST)
- Tribal-Focused Environmental Risk and Sustainability Tool (T-FERST)
- Exposure Assessment Tools and Models
Health Effects Due to Pollutants
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
- Healthy Heart Initiative
- Health and Air Quality
- Health Effects of Ozone in the General Population
- Health Effects Notebook for Hazardous Air Pollutants
- Climate Change: Human Health Impacts and Adaptation
- Radon Health Risks
Water
- Health and Water Safety
- Chemical and Microbial Risk
- Water Quality: Human Health Criteria
- Advisories and Technical Resources for Fish and Shellfish Consumption
Pesticides, Chemicals and Toxins
- Endocrine Disruptor Research
- Computational Toxicology Research
- Integrated Risk Information System
- Bisphenol A (BPA)
- Dioxin
Risk Assessment
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, by Program or Substance
- Superfund Risk Assessment
- Fate, Exposure, and Risk Analysis (FERA) - tools to evaluate risks and effects associated with exposure to "criteria" and toxic air pollutants.
- Tools for Calculating Radiation Dose and Risk
- Assessing Pesticide Cumulative Risk