Mission

Mission and Vision Statement

To lead visionary ventures in education, research, and practice that ensure a safe and healthy environment for all, now and in the future. 

Goals

  • Train an outstanding and empowered environmental and occupational health workforce
  • Lead paradigm-shifting fundamental, applied, and community-engaged research
  • Apply our teaching and transdisciplinary research excellence to promote practices and policies that advance equitable community and global environmental health
  • Foster an equitable, collaborative, inclusive culture for students, staff, and faculty

Intrinsic to our mission and vision are:  

Innovative Research

  • Health effects of biological, chemical and physical agents
  • Environmental justice and health disparities
  • Environmental health policy and practice
  • Computational toxicology and risk assessment
  • Molecular and biochemical toxicology
  • Epigenetics and gene-environment interactions in human diseases
  • Exposome and life-course epidemiology

Education and Training

  • Undergraduate program (BSPH with environmental health focus)
  • Departmental graduate programs (MS, MPH, and two PhD tracks)
  • MPH student practicum
  • Certificate and training programs (including non-degree programs)

Practice and Community Engagement

  • The Caribbean Consortium for Research in Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Center for Free Radical and Antioxidant Health
  • Center for Healthy Environments and Communities
  • Center for Health, Environment, and Engaged Research
  • Rust to Resilience Environmental Chemical Research Center
  • Center for Human Environmental and Equity Research
  • Asthma and Environmental Lung Health Institute
  • University of Pittsburgh Asthma and Environmental Lung Health Institute
  • Public health capacity building, outreach, and education
  • Local and global community partnerships and collaborations 

Research and Practice Centers