任务
环境健康科学中心(CEHS)的任务是研究环境因子的生物效应，包括个体的和综合的，特别强调环境因子对人类健康和生态系统健康的影响。这些研究帮助人们了解和预测暴露于环境制剂如何影响人类健康以及人类与其他生物的动态关系。影响环境暴露的生理效应的有三个基本因素:暴露的性质、暴露的持续时间以及暴露的生物体应对暴露的能力。即有机体的遗传易感性。
麻省理工学院的环境健康研究涵盖了广泛的学科，CEHS继续汇集使用各种研究工具的教员来解决与环境健康科学相关的问题。在过去的几年中，CEHS已经开始把重点放在与发展中国家特别相关的问题上，同时增加了更多以人口为基础的研究。他们也越来越多地与麻省理工学院的工程社区接触，因为这里的工程同事是在第一线解决环境危害补救现实的关键玩家。
研究
CEHS的研究范围从环境的物理和化学到流行病学的基础研究，有助于全面了解环境对人们健康的影响。在最基本的层面上，CEHS研究环境中的化学物质，它们如何在环境中移动，以及进入人类饮用的水和呼吸的空气中的污染物的物理和化学参数。在此基础上，CEHS的工作跨越了原子水平、分子水平、途径水平、网络水平、细胞水平、生物体水平和最终群体水平，以建立一个系统水平的理解，了解暴露如何影响健康。通过对影响健康的化学和生物因素的理解，CEHS研究人员的研究结果为规范接触的新政策以及预防和治疗接触引起的疾病的新方法打开了大门。
CEHS的研究人员在五个不同的研究领域开展工作。这些主题领域将不同学科的研究人员聚集在一起，利用麻省理工学院和哈佛大学公共卫生学院的研究优势和技术优势，创建协同研究团队。
task
The mission of the Environmental Health Sciences Centers (CEHS) is to study the biological effects of environmental factors, both individually and collectively, with a special emphasis on their impact on human health and ecosystem health. These studies have helped to understand and predict how exposure to environmental agents affects human health and the dynamics of human relationships with other organisms. There are three fundamental factors that influence the physiological effects of environmental exposure: the nature of the exposure, the duration of the exposure, and the ability of the exposed organism to cope with it. The genetic predisposition of an organism.
Environmental health research at MIT covers a wide range of disciplines, and CEHS continues to bring together faculty using a variety of research tools to address issues related to the environmental health sciences. Over the past few years, CEHS has begun to focus on issues of particular relevance to developing countries, while adding more population-based research. They are also increasingly engaging with the engineering community at MIT, as engineering colleagues here are key players on the front lines addressing the reality of remediation of environmental hazards.
research
CEHS research ranges from the physics and chemistry of the environment to basic research in epidemiology, contributing to a comprehensive understanding of the impact of the environment on people's health. At the most basic level, CEHS studies chemicals in the environment, how they move through the environment, and the physical and chemical parameters of pollutants that enter the water humans drink and the air they breathe. Building on this, CEHS work spans the atomic level, the molecular level, the pathway level, the network level, the cellular level, the organism level, and the final population level to build a systems-level understanding of how exposure affects health. Through an understanding of the chemical and biological factors that affect health, the findings of the CEHS researchers open the door to new policies to regulate exposure and new ways to prevent and treat diseases caused by exposure.
CEHS researchers work in five different areas of research. These subject areas bring together researchers from different disciplines to create collaborative research teams that leverage the research strengths and technological strengths of MIT and HSPH.