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Background of Environmental Health Service
| The Environmental Health Service is a free-standing,
non-profit, specialized research facility which is recognized
internationally for its pioneering work in clinical studies with 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.
Core EHS staff have worked together for at least 10
years (some for as long as 20-25 years). The staff is supported by
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.
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