Early-life exposure to environmental toxicants in air, food, water and life-style related products, such as skin lotion, along with social stressors, can play a critical role in shaping risk of diseases over one’s lifetime. A large group of researchers around the United States have teamed up to understand how these factors contribute to an array of adverse health conditions. The findings from the Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) study analysis will build the scientific evidence for the removal and reduction of these toxicants, and protection of children’s health.
Hyunok Choi, an associate professor in the College of Health’s Department of Community and Population Health, has recently been awarded funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate the effects of early environmental influences on child health and development.
Learn more about Choi and this team of interdisciplinary researchers.
Lehigh has been named an R1 research university by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Universities with this designation conduct the highest level of research activity within the Carnegie Classification. Lehigh is the only university in the Lehigh Valley to have this designation, and one of seven in Pennsylvania. Learn more.
