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The Environmental Health Service (EHS) is a free-standing, non-profit, specialized research facility which is recognized internationally for its pioneering work in clinical studies on air pollution and for its academic productivity. The EHS facility is one of five major research units in the United States and is unique in having three environmentally-controlled exposure chambers available for clinical studies. The effective operation of the EHS relies on experts in pollution-health effects, pulmonary medicine, physiology, data management and statistics, atmospheric chemistry, and engineering. Each EHS staff member has special expertise in specific areas to produce high-caliber work.

Senior EHS staff have worked together for at least 10 years (some for as long as 20-25 years). EHS staff are supported by research grants and contracts. In recent years, EHS research support has been from the American Heart Association, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, California Air Resources Board, Electrical Power Research Institute, Southern California Edison, Health Effects Institute, American Petroleum Institute, and pharmaceutical firms.

In its third decade of research, the EHS stands ready to meet the challenges of an imperfect world so that its inhabitants can raise their families and work in a cleaner, safer environment.