NIEHS Center in Urban Environmental Health
P30 ES 03819

Center Director: John D. Groopman, PhD
Center Deputy Director: Michael A. Trush, PhD
Center Administrator: Theresa B. Daniel, BS

Over the past century, there has been a rapid growth of urban centers around the country. This growth and its associated environmental risk factors have had a profound impact upon the health of urban area residents.

The Johns Hopkins Center in Urban Environmental Health is dedicated to addressing the problems of this segment of our population. Click here to download an animation of Urban Growth in the Baltimore region from 1792 to 1992.

Center Goals

The long-term goals emanating from the theme of our Center are (a) to identify environmental exposures, their biological consequences and underlying susceptibility factors, the nexus of gene-environment interactions, that alone or together increase health risk for people living in urban environments, such as Baltimore, and (b) to use these findings to develop prevention and intervention strategies to improve urban environmental health both locally and globally.

The Center is organized with three research foci:

Research Focus 1: Environmental Epidemiology and Exposure Assessment,
Research Focus 2: Molecular Basis of Environmental Disease,
Research Focus 3: Public Health Interventions and Prevention.

The management of the Center is facilitated by using both an Internal and External Advisory Board structure.