OHSU Institute of Environmental Health

OHSU Institute of Environmental Health advances global sustainability and well-being through improved understanding of environmental processes.

Our Health and the Environment

There is overwhelming evidence that human activities and global climate change are affecting environmental health and sustainability, posing serious risks for human health. IEH believes that predicting and steering environmental change will be integral to next generation preventative medicine. We are poised to develop scientific understanding in environmental and biomolecular systems that elucidates environmental processes and their links to human health.

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Divisions & Centers

Division of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems
A unique multidisciplinary division that combines study of the physical, chemical, and biological processes that affect human and environmental health.

Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction
A multi-institutional National Science Foundation Science & Technology Center hosted at OHSU that is advancing the predictive science of coastal margin ecosystems.

IEH offers research and in-depth training opportunities in the environmental and biomolecular sciences and in environmental health. Find out how you can earn your Ph.D. or M.S. degree with leading faculty using state-of-art technology in a collaborative, interdisciplinary setting.

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