Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute
The Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute engages researchers and citizen scientists to learn how our natural, social, and personal environments impact health. We use a multidimensional model of health to explore and understand the relationships between the environment and human health.
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Louisville is Our Urban Laboratory
Through clinical and basic research we study what living in Louisville means for human health. We're changing how science is done by bringing our research out of the lab and into the streets. Louisville is our urban, living laboratory and the backdrop for our research - we study what communities, neighborhoods, and people experience because of their environments.
What is the Envirome?
The human envirome is made up of all of the environmental conditions that affect us. It is an interactive set of three domains - our natural, social, and personal environments. We explore how and why environmental conditions in each domain support health or cause disease.
Sustain Magazine
Sustain Magazine is an educational resource that shares stories, strategies, and solutions from environmental health research about innovative and immerging development practices that mitigate and improve the human health consequences of unsustainable development. You can browse all the past issues here.
The 40th issue focuses on the work of the Superfund Research Center at the Envirome Institute. Read it here!
News
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- Feb 13, 2020 Trees Are Key To Fighting Urban Heat — But Cities Keep Losing Them
- Feb 13, 2020 Green Heart Project plants 8,000 trees to study health effects
- Feb 13, 2020 More trees, fewer health problems: Inside Green Heart Louisville’s five year study on air pollution control
- Feb 13, 2020 Vaping Is Far From Harmless
- Feb 13, 2020 UofL E-Cigarette Research Shows Harm To Health
Research Projects
Green Heart: discovering how air pollution affects heart disease
Tobacco Addiction: studying the health effects of new and existing tobacco products
Diabetes and Obesity: discovering new ways to prevent and treat diabetes and obesity
Superfund Toxic Waste Sites: studying how chemical exposure affects risk of developing chronic diseases
Research Centers
We Value Diversity and Inclusion
The Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute celebrates diversity in all it's forms. We are proud to have some of the the best scientists from around the world helping us to explore and understand the complex relationships between human health and our external environmental conditions. We are not bound by borders or the the ways people categorize or group themselves because our environment affects us all equally as humans. The practice of science is a discussion and we value the richness multiple, varied voices can bring to our conversations.