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 embrace a multidimensional New Vision of Health to explore and understand the relationships between the environment and human health.
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Green Heart Louisville Project
The University of Louisville’s groundbreaking Green Heart Louisville Project has found that people living in neighborhoods where the number of trees and shrubs was more than doubled showed lower levels of a blood marker of inflammation than those living outside the planted areas.
Trager MicroForest Project
This project will examine the impact of a small, intensely planted urban forest on human health and well-being, biodiversity, air quality, and micro-climates. What we learn could inform the way we combat climate change by integrating nature into urban environments to create healthier cities.
Environmental Science and Technology
Drs. Jin Chen and Zhengzhi Xie’s research made the cover story for Environmental Science and Technology. Their article describes a new method for analyzing exposures to chemicals, which will enhance our ability to study these exposures on an individual level.
Read the articleWastewater-based Disease Surveillance for Public Health
Wastewater surveillance was a valuable component of the U.S. public health response in the nation’s emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and is worthy of further development and continued investment, says a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Watch a video about the Envirome Institute’s wastewater workUniversal Basic Neighborhood Project
The University of Louisville and Simmons College of Kentucky are partnering to investigate the relationship between the characteristics of a neighborhood and the health of its residents.
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Support the Envirome Institute’s transdisciplinary team of researchers as we develop new approaches to promoting and preserving human health, increasing the understanding that healthy air, water and soil are keys to the health of all life. Make a donation online or schedule an appointment with our Sr. Director of Development.