Health Impact of Environmental Hazards | Health Protection Research Unit

Research themes

NOTE: This award ended 31st March 2020. The work undertaken by the partners in this HPRU continues to progress via a new award received from the NIHR funding a Health Protection Research Unit in Environmental Exposures and Health. Please see the website for more details.

Welcome to the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR HPRU) in Health Impact of Environmental Hazards. Our strategy is to investigate the impact of exposure to exogenous environmental chemicals and other pollutants, to gain greater understanding of the mechanism of their interaction with human systems and hence generate new knowledge of health risks to the human population. This new knowledge will be used in health impact assessment and targeted policy research to inform and improve public health and medical response.

The four themes are:

Theme 1 - Epidemiological assessment of low level environmental exposures

Theme 2 - Modes of toxicity (Biochemical pathways from toxin to disease)

Theme 3 - Health impact of low dose non-ionising and ionising radiation

Theme 4 - Health effects of noise and air pollution including nanoparticles