Search: Research Centers, Human Health
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Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development (CEIHD)
Submitted by cmjones on February 23, 2007 - 2:25pm.Name of Research Center:
Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development (CEIHD)
Description:
The mission of the Center is to promote and disseminate the use of entrepreneurial methods to improve the health of families in developing countries. CEIHD brings the expertise of business and public health professionals to focus on problems related to the unmet need for health services and products, and to create market conditions that facilitate the reduction of indoor air pollution.
NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program
Submitted by cmjones on February 23, 2007 - 2:33pm.Name of Research Center:
NIEHS Superfund Basic Research Program
Description:
The goals of the UC Berkeley Superfund program are to improve understanding of the relationship between exposure and disease, provide better human and ecological risk assessments, and develop a range of prevention and remediation strategies to improve and protect public health, ecosystems and the environment.
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NIEHS Center for Environmental Health Sciences
Submitted by cmjones on February 23, 2007 - 2:31pm.Name of Research Center:
NIEHS Center for Environmental Health Sciences
Description:
The UC Berkeley Environmental Health Sciences Center (EHS Center) is comprised of researchers who study molecular responses to environmental exposures and seek to explain why certain individuals are more vulernable to these exposures than others.
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Center for Environmental Public Health Tracking
Submitted by cmjones on February 23, 2007 - 2:29pm.Name of Research Center:
Center for Environmental Public Health Tracking
Description:
BCEPHT works to advance a nationwide Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) network that provides and communicates information about relationships between environmental factors and health to all relevant audiences, including policy-makers and community stakeholders.
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Health, Environment, and Development
Submitted by cmjones on February 23, 2007 - 2:28pm.Name of Research Center:
Health, Environment, and Development
Description:
A unique, interdisciplinary, campuswide program designed to help people in developing countries achieve health, reach a reasonable level of well-being, and stabilize populations. These objectives - while at the same time protecting the local, community, and global environments - are among the most compelling and complicated challenges facing the world community.
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Submitted by cmjones on February 23, 2007 - 2:27pm.Name of Research Center:
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Description:
The Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH) serves government, industry, schools, health professionals, and the general public through programs and partnerships designed to deepen understanding of occupational and environmental hazards and to prevent disease, fatalities, and injuries.Activities are grounded in multicampus, multidisciplinary teaching programs in medicine, nursing, public health, and related fields.