Programs
At the heart of the Center’s programs are its efforts
to present the best and most current science about the environment and
human health in non-technical language that is easy to understand. To this end, the Center
has developed a suite of programs for policymakers, physicians,
scientists, students and the general public.
Current Programs:
Classroom Education 
The Center aims to deepen understanding of the connections between the environment and human health for students at middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities by providing high quality information and teaching tools for educators across the nation.
Biodiversity and Human Health
 The natural world and its diverse components function as interconnected webs of life across the globe, and it is from these webs that humankind is sheltered, fed and healed. The Center's Biodiversity and Human Health Program has completed the most comprehensive scientific review of the connections between human health and biodiversity, which has been published inthe book Sustaining Life, and is now engaged in a major educational initiative.
Climate, Energy and Health
 The goal of the Climate, Energy and Health Program is to educate the scientific comunity, policymakers, industry representatives, community leaders and the general public about the human health dimensions of climate change and energy use in order to foster healthy solutions for the low carbon future.
Healthy and Sustainable Food
 The goal of the Healthy and Sustainable Food Program is to help people make food choices that are healthy for them and the environment.
Former Programs:
Policymaker
Education
 Through its Policymaker Education Program, the Center provides the best science available to policymakers by translating the abstract, technical langugae of global environmental change into the concrete, personal terms of human health that Members of Congress and their staff can relate to and understand.
Scientists and Evangelicals Initiative
 The Scientists-Evangelicals Initiative is an effort that seeks to bring together leading environmental scientists and evangelical Christians to explore humanity's degredation of the global environment and to help lessen its impacts.
Healthy Ocean, Healthy Humans
 The Healthy Ocean, Healthy Humans Program aims to create educational materials that inspire people to protect the marine world by demonstrating how human health depends on a healthy ocean environment. By using the powerful and direct connection with human health and highly creative communications techniques, the program helps people understand that the ocean is not just a place for recreation or a mysterious underworld, but a critical part of the system that fosters human life.
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