The mission of the Indiana University Center for Environmental Health is to foster excellence in scientific research, training, and outreach in environmental health with a goal of identifying, understanding and preventing environmentally related diseases covering the human life span. Locally, environmentally driven human disease costs the State of Indiana jobs and potential revenue, and negatively impacts the quality of life and the economy of the State. The IU School of Medicine and IUPUI campus provide an ideal setting for coordinated effort in Environmental Health Sciences. The combination of academic health science research, environmental research, county and state public health programs, state environmental programs, information technology, and centers for environmental policy and earth and environmental science are all located on or near the IUPUI campus. Thus this location provides an excellent geographic and philosophical template to foster understanding and improvement of human health and the environment. The goal of the Center is to be a nationally and internationally recognized center for Environmental Health.

The objectives of the Center for Environmental Health include:

• To nucleate and support interdisciplinary research programs bridging environmental analysis with human health
• To enhance the quality of life of people in Indiana and around the world
• To cultivate external grant proposal development in Environmental Health Sciences
• To maximize resource use efficiency in the health sciences, environmental sciences, and information technology
• To develop training programs to equip individual, pre and post doctoral students with the knowledge to integrate environmental and health issues
• To provide outreach in Environmental Health to the community, to local, state, and national regulators, and to policy makers.