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EXTERNAL REVIEW DRAFT: HUMAN HEALTH RESEARCH STRATEGY, APRIL 2002
Citation:
Tilson, H A. EXTERNAL REVIEW DRAFT: HUMAN HEALTH RESEARCH STRATEGY, APRIL 2002. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-02/050.
Description:
This is the external review draft of the Human Health Research Strategy. The final document has been published under the same publication number, but it is dated September 2003. The report is available from the EPA.
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.