Strategic Plan 2025-2029
All NIEHS research activities depend on robust investments in capacity and infrastructure to ensure readiness for their success. This section focuses on NIEHS priorities and approaches for building and maintaining scientific capacity in environmental health sciences, including workforce, resources, and infrastructure.
Area 1: Scientific Workforce Development and Training
NIEHS is committed to supporting training and workforce development across the environmental health sciences and all Research Areas of Emphasis.
Area 2: Data Infrastructure and Management
The progress we expect to make in our Research Areas of Emphasis is highly dependent on data-driven discovery.
Area 3: Human Studies and Community-Engaged Research
Human studies represent a major ongoing investment for NIEHS.
Area 4: Exposure Measurement
Advancing NIEHS’ primary goal of integrating the environment more fully into the biomedical research enterprise requires investment in improved methods and technology for measurement of a wide variety of environmental agents and factors utilizing the exposome framework, as well as the ability to derive actionable meaning from research results.
Area 5: Communication and Dissemination
Communication infrastructure and resources encompass a wide variety of activities.
Other Strategic Plan Sections
Crosscutting Themes
NIEHS is committed to collaborations and partnerships across its endeavors to successfully contribute to the critical work of NIEHS.
Research Areas of Emphasis
NIEHS will conduct high-quality, innovative environmental health sciences research on the effects of the environment on biological systems and processes.
Scientific Management and Stewardship
NIEHS prioritizes scientific stewardship and operational principles that align with the institute’s commitment to advancing human health and understanding the environment’s impacts on human health.