Health and Environmental Risk Division

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Director

Director of Health and Environmental Risk Division
WATANABE Hidehiro

Outline of Research

Contributing to the reduction of health and environmental risk to human health and ecosystems to assure environmental safety

We clarify the environmental risk for human health and ecosystems posed by environmental pollutants and other risk factors, through the cooperation of environmental risk field and environmental health field, to assure environmental safety. In addition, we conduct the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS) in order to investigate environmental impacts on children’s health and development. JECS is lead by the JECS Programme Office situated under this research centre.

Environmental Risk Field
Establish Sciences to Support the Prevention of Environmental Risks and Contribute to the Achievement of a Safe Society

The research in this field includes enhancing ecological toxicity testing, developing a new ecological risk assessment system for chemicals, developing methods to determine environmental exposure and impact of chemicals, ascertaining exposure and impacts in the ecosystem through field work and laboratory experiments and developing control measures, systematization of risk management for chemicals and other substances, and environmental fate of those substances and exposure assessment, collaboratively with the Environmental Health Field on research related to human health. Their findings are being applied as risk assessment science.

Environmental Health Field
Contributing to Preventing Harmful Effects Caused by the Environment and Promoting Safe and Healthy Environment

Researchers are conducting animal studies, epidemiological research and exposure analyses to evaluate the effects of various environmental factors including chemicals substances on human health, especially that of future generations, and elucidate the mechanisms of these effects. The results of these research will be used to perform health risk-assessment research jointly with the Environmental Risk Field.

JECS Programme Office
https://www.nies.go.jp/risk_health/english/jecs-e.html