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Harvard NIEHS Center for Environmental Health

Facility Cores

Overview

    Our NIEHS Center includes two core facilities: Integrated Health Science Facility Core (IHSFC) and Environmental Statistics and Bioinformatics Core. 

    The Integrated Health Sciences Facilities Core (IHSFC) provides one-stop shopping for the laboratory services needed to support studies from ‘Populations to Pathways'. It incorporates the previous Environmental Measurements and Exposure Assessment Facility Core and the Biological Assessment Facility Core. In addition, we have added Environmental Genomics support services. Essential core services and instrumentation are provided, but also resources to access the much wider range of laboratory resources available at the Harvard School of Public Health, the Harvard Medical Area and nearby sister institutions. The objective is to provide access to the best, leading-edge laboratory services in the most cost effective manner to Center members.  The director of IHSFC is Dr. Lester Kobzik, Professor in the Department of Environmental Health.

     The Integrated Health Science Facility Core is composed of three facility services:

    The Environmental Statistics and Bioinformatics Facility Core likewise provides one-stop shopping for data processing and analyses. The management and analyses of the high dimensional data being generated by modern molecular approaches are a challenge to investigators. Across the set of 31 population and patient environmental health studies here at HSPH, we have complex information that will benefit from a Center-sponsored browse-able database. This database will capture key variables and outcomes, and make them accessible to Center member investigators from web browsers at their desktop. Allowing Center members to interconnect the studies through genes or phenotypes or exposures will multiply the utility of these studies, leverage the data being collected, and encourage new collaborations. The director of the Environmental Statistics and Bioinformatics Core is Dr. Brent Coull, Associate Professor of Biostatistics at Department of Biostatistics.