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April 2017
Global Environmental Health Newsletter
Learn More About GEH at NIEHS
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GEH at NIEHS Updates from the GEH program

WHO Atlas Links Children’s Health and the Environment

In a new report, Inheriting a Sustainable World: Atlas on Children’s Health and the Environment, the World Health Organization (WHO) lays out the global challenges to children’s environmental health and identifies actions to prevent and reduce environmental risks.

atlas on children's health

Implementation Science to Scale-Up Clean Cooking and Improve Health

The Clean Cooking Implementation Science Network is working to accelerate widespread and sustained adoption of clean cooking technologies and achieve health benefits on a population scale by advancing understanding of what makes cookstove projects successful.

Karnataka interview

NIEHS-India Air Pollution and Health Training Venture Will Build Research Expertise

Launched as a result of a three-month American Embassy Science Fellowship, an NIEHS-Indian research and training project aims to build capacity for research on air pollution and its health impacts in India.

New Map Highlights Biomedical Research Investments

World RePORT is an open-access, interactive mapping database project highlighting biomedical research investments and partnerships from some of the world’s largest funding organizations.

NIEHS Research and Collaboration in Children’s Environmental Health

NIEHS is a participating member of the WHO Collaborating Centre Network for Children’s Environmental Health.

Grants and Funding

Dissemination and Implementation Research in Health

Emerging Global Leader Award

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at NIH

Upcoming Events

Air Quality Awareness Week
May 1 – 5, 2017
Air Quality Awareness Week 2017: Be Air Aware

World Health Assembly
May 22 – 26, 2017
70th World Health Assembly

World Environment Day
June 5, 2017
World Environment Day 2017: Connecting People to Nature

International Society of Environmental Epidemiology 2017
September 24 – 28, 2017
29th Annual Scientific Conference of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology: Healthy Places, Healthy People – Where Are the Connections?

International Society of Exposure Science 2017
October 15 – 19, 2017
International Society of Exposure Science 2017: Integrating Exposure Science across Diverse Communities

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NIEHS identifies Global Environmental Health (GEH) as a part of its strategic themes, recognizing that because environmental health problems cross national boundaries, conducting studies around the world benefits not just those in areas being studied, but all people who suffer from the same or related environmental health problems.