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HUMAN HEALTH RESEARCH STRATEGY
Citation:
Zenick, H, H A. Barton, J N. Blancato, M. Callahan, L T. Cupitt, J A. Graham, K Hammerstrom*, J G. Herrmann*, R J. Kavlock, G. L. Kimmel, H McKinnon, H A. Tilson, V Vu*, AND J OrmeZavaleta. HUMAN HEALTH RESEARCH STRATEGY. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-02/050 (NTIS PB2005-105433), 2003.
Impact/Purpose:
The Human Health Research Strategy presents a conceptual framework for future human health research by EPA's Office of Research Development (ORD) over the next 5-10 years. This research strategy outlines ORD's core research effort to provide broader, more fundamental information that will improve understanding or problem-driven human health risk issues encountered by EPA's Program and Regional Offices.
Description:
The mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to protect public health and safeguard the environment. Risk assessment is an integral part of this mission in that it identifies and characterizes environmentally related human health problems. The Human Health Research Strategy presents a conceptual framework for future human health research by EPA's Office of Research Development (ORD) over the next 5-10 years. This research strategy outlines ORD's core research effort to provide broader, more fundamental information that will improve understanding or problem-driven human health risk issues encountered by EPA's Program and Regional Offices. ORD's human health program will address two strategic directions, including research to improve the scientific foundation of human health risk assessment and research to enable evaluation of public health outcomes from risk management decisions. An important consideration in the development of this strategy was to ensure that EPA human health research supplements and expands on other federal agency efforts.